MAKE THESE PSYCHOLOGISTS GO TO JAIL FOR RAPE!!!

So striking were the harmful consequences associated with therapist-patient sex that Masters and Johnson wrote: "We feel that when sexual seduction of patients can be firmly established by due legal process, regardless of whether the seduction was initiated by the patient or the therapist, the therapist should be sued for rape rather than malpractice, i.e., the legal process should be criminal rather than civil."

The time is overdue for the mental health professions to put an end to the "quintessence of sex-biased practice," in the words of Jean Holroyd, that puts female clients, both minor and adult, at far greater risk than male clients for damaging sexual exploitation by a therapist. Adults and children who are hurting, confused, vulnerable, sometimes desperate, who come for help and place their trust in therapists deserve more than to be used to gratify therapists' sexual impulses.

When therapists intentionally and knowingly violate their patients' trust, as they do when they decide to become sexually involved with them, the effects on the patients' ability to trust can be profound and lasting. Therapy may rest on a foundation of exceptional trust. People may walk into the offices of complete strangers and, if the stranger is a therapist, begin talking about thoughts, feelings, and impulses that they would reveal literally to no one else. Every state, appreciating the exceptionally sensitive nature of the "secrets" that patients may entrust to their therapists, have established in their laws a formal therapist-patient privilege. The ethics codes of all major mental health professions recognize the therapist's responsibility to maintain confidentiality when patients trust the therapist to the extent that they disclose personal information in therapy.

Beyond investing therapists with trust regarding their own privacy, confidentiality, and "secrets," patients trust therapists to act in a way consistent with patient well-fare and to avoid intentionally engaging in any behavior that not only is unethical and prohibited by law but also places the patient at so needless a risk for harm. In some ways, therapy is similar to surgery. Patients agreeing to surgery allow themselves to be opened up physically because they have been led to believe that the process has some reasonable prospects of leading to improvement. They allow a professional to do to them--i.e., cut into them--what they would not let anyone else do. They trust that the professional will not take advantage of them or abuse them, sexually or otherwise, during this process. Therapy patients submit themselves to a process in which they open up psychologically because they also have been led to believe that this process is likely to yield improvement. They trust therapists to avoid any exploitation or abuse during the process.

It was Freud who first noted this similarity. He wrote that "talking therapy" was "comparable to a surgical operation.'' Like the surgeon, the therapist worked with "a dangerous instrument .

I plead with you to watch these videos. SEX WITH MY PSYCHOLOGIST AS RUINED MY LIFE. Since having sex with Dr. James Barbaria I became an alcoholic, a kleptomaniac, became a PORN MODEL all in 50's. I don't trust ANYONE. I stopped going for health checks with doctors. I can't sleep and I have panic attacks ALL THE TIME!! I have ZERO friends. I don't trust humans! I am hypervigilant!

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