BIZARRE PSYCH NEWS
Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, psychiatrist, sentenced to life
Taleb al-Abdulmohsen Aljazeera German court opens trial of Saudi doctor for Christmas market attack November 10, 2025 A nine-year-old boy and five women were killed in the ramming attack in a busy market. A court in southeastern Germany is set to open the trial of a Saudi Arabian doctor who is suspected of carrying out a ramming attack last year. Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a 51-year-old psychiatrist, will appear in court on Monday in the town of Magdeburg, accused of killing six people and wounding more than 300 when he drove a van into a busy Christmas market last December. The defendant [...]
TelePsychiatry
PsychSearch TelePsychiatry: Lives Ruined at a Distance Colin Taufer There was a time when psychiatric diagnosis required live face to face consultation before patients’ lives were ruined through psychiatry. Now, through modern technology, lives are also ruined at a distance with telepsychiatry: psych evaluation and drug prescription through teleconferencing. That telepsychiatry exists at all as a form of psychiatric “therapy” only highlights the broken and destructive nature of the psychiatric diagnostic process. Like all psychiatric examination, telepsychiatry diagnosis requires no blood tests, x-rays, brain scans or any other biological testing for that matter. Diagnosis is purely subjective and unscientific, full [...]
Rashmi Shashikumar, India psychiatrist, stole newborn
The Times of India Psychiatrist gets 10 yrs in jail for kidnap, sale of newborn --Excerpt Bengaluru: A city court recently held a 36-year-old psychiatrist guilty of stealing a newborn boy and selling him for Rs 14.5 lakh in 2020 and sentenced her to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment. Judge CB Santosh also fined convict Rashmi Shashikumar, a resident of Nagarbhavi, Rs 1 lakh. Rashmi, who was out on bail and was present in the court when the orders were passed on Feb 19, was taken into custody and sent to Bengaluru Central prison. The case dates back to [...]
Ceri Evans, Otega Trained Psychiatrist, fails in bid for secrecy
Ceri Evans Otago Daily Times High-flyer's bid for name suppression fails By Rob Kidd December 17, 2024 -- Excerpt An Otago-trained psychiatrist-to-the-stars, who failed to have a 40-year-old driving conviction quashed, has failed in his bid for secrecy. Former All White Dr Ceri Evans has forged a career as an internationally renowned high-performance consultant, plying his trade with the All Blacks, English Premier League football club Arsenal, an NBA franchise in the United States and Australian professional sport teams... On July 16, 1984, Evans was charged with careless driving and appeared in the Ashburton District Court. He denied the [...]
Colin Milliken, Irish Psychiatrist, shocked by patient mistreatment
Colin Milliken BBC Ex-Muckamore psychiatrist 'horrified' by allegations By Lyndsey Telford September 23, 2024 A former consultant psychiatrist and clinical director at Muckamore Abbey Hospital was “absolutely horrified” by allegations of abuse of patients, an inquiry has heard. Dr Colin Milliken described his “shock, anger and despair” at the revelations, but said he had never been aware of any poor treatment or abuse of patients. He told a public inquiry he was “heartbroken” by the allegations, which emerged in 2017. He said some of the patients said to be affected had been under his direct care, but he could [...]
Anne O’Sullivan, Perth psychiatrist, banned for 18 months
Anne O'Sullivan The West Australian (Perth) Perth psychiatrist banned for 18 months after patient turned friend tattooed tribute on their arm By Tim Clarke April 30, 2024 -- Excerpt A leading psychiatrist has been banned from practice for 18 months after becoming so entangled with a patient that the vulnerable woman referred to her as Mum - and had a tribute to her tattooed on her arm. Anne O'Sullivan was a psychiatric spokesperson for the WA branch of the Australian Medical Association while working as the clinical leader for the emergency psychiatry team at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. She also [...]
Piotr Pierzchniak, UK Psychiatrist, suspended
Piotr Pierzchniak Nottingham Post Nottinghamshire psychiatrist who saw patients without a licence discovers punishment By Rucsandra Moldoveanu January 31, 2024 -- Excerpt A doctor who saw Nottinghamshire patients for three months despite not having a licence has been suspended. Dr Piotr Pierzchniak was seeing more than 40 patients a week at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust when he had his licence to practice withdrawn in 2022. A hearing, which took place this month, was told that Dr Pierzchniak treated vulnerable patients as a Consultant Psychiatrist without a licence for 13 and a half weeks. This happened between February 18, 2022, [...]
Süleyman Zoroğlu, Istanbul Psychiatrist, faces 943 years
Süleyman Zoroğlu Hurriyet Daily News Lengthy jail term sought for psychiatrist for manipulating children ISTANBUL December 1, 2023 -- Excerpt Istanbul Prosecutor's Office has sought 943 years and nine months in prison for a psychiatrist for manipulating children through drugs and hypnosis and then blackmailing their families with false reports of domestic sexual abuse. In the indictment prepared by the prosecutor's office, it was stated that the suspect, Süleyman Şahin Zoroğlu, quickly diagnosed 21 victimized children aged between 7 and 18 with multiple personality disorder, prescribed “ketamine” - used for anesthesia and can cause memory loss - and asked [...]
Jonathan Weiss, North Andover psychiatrist, reprimanded
Jonathan Weiss Eagle Tribune North Andover psychiatrist fined for prescribing antidepressant to patient's dog October 12, 2023 By Teddy Tauscher -- Excerpt ANDOVER A North Andover psychiatrist has been fined $5,000 by the Massachusetts Board of Medicine for wrongfully writing a prescription for Prozac to quiet a patient's dog. Dr. Jonathan Weiss said only after the incident did he learn that he doesn't have the legal right to prescribe to a dog. "Frankly, it did not occur to me that I wouldn't," he said. "In retrospect, what I should have done is say to the woman 'Go to your veterinarian [...]
Nuwan Galappathie, Birmingham psychiatrist, slammed
Daily Mail EXCLUSIVE - Psychiatrist is slammed by immigration tribunal for saying that a man who appealed against his deportation to Cameroon after raping his own daughter does not display 'distorted sexual attitudes towards children' By Sarah Limbrick September 12, 2023 -- Excerpt An eminent consultant psychiatrist has been slammed by an immigration tribunal for concluding an African man who raped his own daughter does not display 'distorted sexual attitudes towards children'. The twisted father was appealing against deportation to Cameroon on human rights grounds after serving an 18-year sentence for the harrowing ordeal he subjected his little girl to [...]