Psych Observer – Exposing Bad Psychiatry

Psychiatrists are on alert.

Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) is continuing his investigation into the professional links to big pharmaceutical companies.

In this next step of the ongoing investigation into conflict-of-interest compensation to psychiatrists, Sen. Grassley has sent a letter to the American Psychiatric Association, (APA), asking for an accounting of revenues collected from pharmaceutical companies beginning in 2003.

The association is the voice of establishment psychiatric medicine which sets the standards for treatment.

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A former Fremantle psychologist who used bondage and discipline role-playing to treat a 22-year-old bulimic woman has been ordered to see a psychiatrist after arguing he should not face disciplinary proceedings because he had post traumatic stress disorder since being cleared of sexually assaulting the client.

Bruce Alistair Beaton was acquitted last year of unlawful and indecent assault, and aggravated sexual penetration of the young woman, who also claimed the psychologist whipped her with a homemade cat-o’-nine-tails while treating her between January and March 2005.

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