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Therapist Abuse

NBC New York I-Team: Lawmaker Wants Therapist Sex Abuse Loophole Closed

May 19, 2012

For those of you living in New York, you may want to check out this article and add your voice to this process: A state assemblyman is drafting legislation that would close a legal loophole, first reported by the I-Team, that keeps statutory rape complaints about psychotherapists from being forwarded to law enforcement by the [...]

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Petition to “Stop Therapist Abuse Now” on Change.org

April 19, 2012

Today on Change.org I discovered a petition to introduce a bill in Maryland called “Lynette’s Law.” The woman who drafted the petition, Heather Sinclair, alleges that she was a victim of therapist abuse by a man who was a convicted felon. Sinclair hopes to pass a law in Maryland that would require all therapists to [...]

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Secrets

November 11, 2011

I was reading through an old issue of O, The Oprah Magazine the other day, and I came across this quote from Jeannette Walls (who apparently heard it from a friend). Thought I’d share… Secrets are like vampires. They suck the life out of you, but they can only survive in the darkness. Once they’re [...]

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Sex with the Therapist – The Need to Feel Whole

October 30, 2011

In my last post I wrote about what it was like to have sex with Dr. T. (A truly delightful subject!) Our sexual involvement spanned four and a half years and had a profound impact on me emotionally, physically, even spiritually. As much as I’d convinced myself that I was doing it for him, the [...]

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Sex with the Therapist — My Experience

October 21, 2011

I’m currently in the process of revising the version of My Story (about my experience with Dr. T) that’s published on the site. I’ve been meaning to do this for a while (and have been putting it off for just as long), but I finally decided to dig in and get it over with. The [...]

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Survey for Survivors of Therapist Abuse

August 14, 2011

Hi everyone, I’d love to get your answers and thoughts on the following questions regarding your recovery and post-abuse experience. Some of the questions require a bit of self-reflection, so feel free to sit with them a while before answering. You can also download a Word version of this survey by clicking here and email [...]

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The Dream (Coping with Terror and Anxiety)

August 6, 2011

This morning I woke up from an intense dream that I’m sure was about the abuse. I’d been with friends, family and a lover, sightseeing on an out-of-town day trip. I’d gone off on my own for a bit and returned to find they had all left, each probably assuming I was in someone else’s [...]

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Why We Stay: How Childhood Loss, Abandonment and Neglect Can Make It Hard to Leave an Abusive Therapist

July 30, 2011

There is one question victims of therapist abuse dread perhaps more than any other: “Why didn’t you just leave?” Of course, this question isn’t specific to victims of therapist abuse; it’s asked of anyone who’s spent a significant amount of time in an abusive relationship. I think we’re all guilty of at least thinking the [...]

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Seeking Female Survivor of Therapist Abuse for Article

April 25, 2011

Update on December 13, 2010 post regarding therapy abuse article: Journalist Deborah Lee is working on a story about sexual abuse by mental health professionals and is looking for a female survivor in her 20s-30s willing to share her story. The interviewee must be willing to be identified by name and have her photo published [...]

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Naked

April 23, 2011

I think a lot of us keep secrets about things that we did, seemingly of our own volition—things that cause us to wonder, later, whether the abuse was our fault, even though we know better. When we think of what we did we feel guilty and ashamed. We don’t dare say anything to anyone, lest [...]

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