MEDIA
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 [...]
Yang Jae-woong
https://www.chosun.com/english/kpop-culture-en/2025/10/21/46BJVDBM5BAEREGL3G3E26CGFY/ Attending Physician Arrested Over Patient's Death at Yang Jae-woong's Hospital Doctor charged with professional negligence; 11 suspects including hospital director investigated By OSEN Published 2025.10.21. 07:43 [OSEN=Choi Lee-jung Reporter] Dr. Yang Jae-woong (43), a psychiatrist and broadcaster, has seen the attending physician A at his hospital finally arrested in connection with a patient’s death. Yonhap News reported on the 20th that the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency arrested Dr. A on charges including professional negligence resulting in death. Presiding Judge Yang Woo-chang of the Bucheon Branch of the Incheon District Court issued a bench [...]
Alexander Wills, Boise psychiatrist, arrested
Idaho Press Boise psychiatrist arrested, accused of sexually assaulting a patient --Excerpt A Boise doctor was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of committing forcible penetration with a foreign object against one of his patients. Alexander Wills, 45, was booked into the Ada County jail on the felony charge Tuesday evening, online arrest records show. He was arraigned Wednesday afternoon. Wills’ LinkedIn account lists him as the owner of/psychiatrist at PERMA Mental Health. The company’s LinkedIn page lists its mission as “to create the highest quality psychiatric mental health services for all by combining psychotherapy, psychedelics, and medication management … “ [...]
Lazaro Pomeraniec, Fairfield psychiatrist, arrested
CTPOST Patient recorded Fairfield doctor accused of sexually assaulting women in his office, police say --Excerpt FAIRFIELD — Police have charged a Fairfield psychiatrist already suspected of groping three patients in his Post Road office with two additional sexual assaults, one of which was captured on an audio recording made by the victim, according to an arrest warrant. The doctor, 75-year-old Lazaro Pomeraniec of Westport, who surrendered his license to practice medicine in July, was arrested Aug. 25 in connection with incidents that are alleged to have occurred March 5 and May 16, according to court records… According to [...]
Anissa Maroof, Potomac Psychiatrist, Sentenced
Anissa Maroof Press Release Bethesda Doctor Sentenced to Over a Year in Federal Prison for Unlawfully Distributing Controlled Substances Tuesday, August 26, 2025 For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Maryland Defendant unlawfully distributed Xanax, Adderall, and Buprenorphine to patients Greenbelt, Maryland – U.S. District Court Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Anissa Maroof, 48, of Potomac, Maryland, to 15 months in federal prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for distributing and dispensing controlled substances. After she is released from prison, Maroof will serve the first nine months of supervised release on home detention. Kelly O. Hayes, U.S. [...]
“MODERN” PSYCHOSURGERY
PsychSearch “MODERN” PSYCHOSURGERY Colin Taufer In 1949, Antonio Egas Moniz won the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine. His award-winning contribution to mankind? “His discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses. A leucotomy is more commonly known as a lobotomy, the neurosurgical procedure consisting of cutting or scraping away the connective tissue to and from the brain’s prefrontal cortex in the name of mental health. Or, in the words of psychiatrist Dr. Peter Breggin, it’s simply the disabling of the brain. The “ice pick lobotomy” was one of the most common psychiatric “therapies” of the late 1940’s [...]
21st Century Mental Asylums
PsychSearch Mental Asylums of the 21st Century: Prisons and Jails By Colin Taufer The three largest mental institutions in America are the Los Angeles County Jail, Rikers Island Correctional Institution in New York City and Cook County Jail in Chicago, the latter being the largest in the United States. This fact may come as a surprise to many. But to the men and women who work on the front lines of law enforcement and mental health care, this is the stark reality of the world they live in. They see first-hand the cycle of human destruction psychiatrists have created: [...]
The NFL, Shock Treatment and Brain Damage
PsychSearch ECT and CTE - The NFL, Shock Treatment and Brain Damage By Colin Taufer "Your brain is safer in a car accident than in the hands of a psychiatrist." On September 30, 2014, researchers with Boston University announced that in autopsies of 79 brains of former NFL players, 76 had tested positive for CTE, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, “the signature disease of football”. (Encephalopathy is defined as disease, damage or malfunction of the brain.) CTE is a degenerative disease found in people who have had a severe or repeated blows to the head, concussions. According to the Center [...]
You Don’t Have to Pick Your Poison
PsychSearch You Don’t Have to Pick Your Poison Colin Taufer His final days were spent in a bare jail cell alone — no bed, no mattress, no bench, no sink. His room constantly illuminated by overhead lights, and he barely slept, less than 30 minutes over a two-day period. He didn’t eat. His toilet was a grate on the floor. Eight days after being admitted and forty pounds lighter, he died covered in his own waste. Marc Moreno was eighteen-years old. He had a history of mental illness. How does it happen that a teen going through the most desperate [...]
The “Church” of the Holy Label
PsychSearch The “Church” of the Holy Label Colin Taufer Those that knew her found Candace Downing to be a very bright little girl and an overachiever, the youngest in a loving family. When she was in sixth grade, her psychiatrist, after a very brief evaluation, decided the anxieties she was experiencing during school tests would require a prescription for the antidepressant Zoloft. Her prescription was increased before she started the seventh grade. Not long after, twelve year old Candace hung herself from her four-poster bed — another life destroyed by psychiatric labeling. According to the bible of psychiatry, the DSM [...]