SEXUAL MISCONDUCT
SEXUAL MISCONDUCT
“Sexual misconduct is particularly damaging to the reputation of psychiatry because the damages to patients which result are mental and emotional in nature. If psychiatry loses the confidence of society, its ability to pursue its mission will be damaged.”
American Psychiatric Association
Approved by the Board of Trustees
March 1993
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Win Yu, Hong Kong Psychiatrist – license revoked – sex with patient
South China Morning Post Doctor struck off for having sex with patient By Joyce Man May 2, 2009 The Medical Council handed down its harshest punishment ever by striking a doctor off the medical register indefinitely for having sex with and living with a psychiatric patient for nine years. The council said the reason for the severity of the sentence was that the offence by Win Yu, previously a medical officer in United Christian Hospital's psychiatry department, was at the 'high end of gravity'. 'The fact that the offence was committed on a particularly vulnerable psychiatric patient further aggravates the [...]
Craig Krause, Virginia Psychiatrist, License suspended, in his office Police found 3,000 videotapes and 10,000 photographs of patients’ feet
INSIDENOVA Psychiatrist's license suspended over feet pics, drug allegations January 23, 2018 Psychiatrist Craig Krause The Virginia Board of Medicine suspended a Gainesville doctor’s medical license Jan. 18 based on multiple violations. Craig Charles Krause, a psychiatrist, is accused of engaging in sexual contact with patients; lewd, offensive behavior toward patients; keeping 3,000 videotapes and 10,000 photographs of patients’ feet; and routinely prescribing large quantities of medications to patients who should not have been receiving the drugs. Many of the patients had a history of abusing or selling drugs, according to the board. Krause was one of 27 people [...]
Tel Aviv Psychiatrist Yehuda Baruch to be charged with having sex with a patient
Haaretz.com Ex-psychiatric Hospital Chief Faces Charges of Sex With Patient Doctor admits to affair with young woman who had been admitted after a suicide attempt ■ former patient had an abortion after becoming pregnant by him By Revital Hovel January 22, 2018 Psychiatrist Yehuda Baruch The former head of a Tel Aviv-area psychiatric hospital is to be charged, pending a hearing, with having sex with a patient. According to court transcripts, Dr. Yehuda Baruch admitted to having had “a romantic relationship” that included sex with Maya Berger, who is now 29, when Baruch was the director of Abarbanel Mental [...]
Jules Masserman, former President of the American Psychiatric Association – sued by six women for sexual misconduct
Chicago Tribune Trust betrayed Sex abuse by therapists prompts ethical debate By David McCracken September 27, 1992 Psychiatrist Jules Masserman The American Psychiatric Association's Ethics Committee held its annual confidential meetings this month in Washington as a former patient renewed her accusations of rape and drug abuse against a past president of the group. Last year the APA's Appeals Board voted to suspend Jules H. Masserman, a Chicago psychiatrist who had been honored the world over, from the APA and the Illinois Psychiatric Society for five years. That action came after six women filed separate lawsuits over seven years, [...]
Italian psychiatrist Marco Bonetti accused of sexual violence against six women (5 of them patients)
Google machine translation: HuffPost € 50 for certificates and sexual violence to patients: arrested the aostan psychiatrist Marco Bonetti January 11, 2018 Psychiatrist Marco Bonetti Week of illness thanks to fake medical certificates obtained by paying the Aostan psychiatrist Marco Bonetti 50 euros: for this accusation the court of Aosta sentenced to two years and 10 months of imprisonment each of the two patients of the psychiatrist finished at home in March 2017, a fifty year old and a fifty-three residents in the valley, at the time of the facts belonging to the prison police. The judges also ordered [...]
Steven Dingle, Arizona State Hospital psychiatrist, reprimanded for sexual misconduct involving three different female subordinates
abc15.com Arizona State Hospital top doctor has history of sexual misconduct, harassment By Dave Biscobing December 13, 2017 Psychiatrist Steven Dingle A patient inside the Arizona State Hospital has raised concerns about the chief medical officer, who has a history of sexual harassment and misconduct involving multiple women at another facility. Due to the national attention surrounding sexual harassment, the patient brought up past discipline against Dr. Steven Dingle during the public comment portion of a November 16th meeting of the Human Rights Committee, a board set up to address patient care and other concerns. The Arizona Medical Board [...]
Windsor Psych Ravi Shenava – Accused of Sexually Abusing patients
CTV News Windsor Disciplinary hearing date set for Windsor doctor November 29, 2017 Psychiatrist Ravishankar Shenava A Windsor doctor accused of sexually abusing patients has date set for a disciplinary hearing. The provincial college of physicians and surgeons has scheduled Feb. 12 for Dr. Ravi Shenava to begin arguments about the merits of the allegations. Besides alleged sexual abuse, the 67-year-old psychiatrist is alleged by the disciplinary committee to have engaged in an act or omission relevant to the practise of medicine, which would be regarded by peers as disgraceful, dishonorable or unprofessional. The Windsor doctor also faces multiple [...]
Lenton Morrow, Sacramento psychiatrist, sexually abused patient and overdrugged five others
Sacramento Bee Sacramento psychiatrist ordered to surrender license in sex abuse complaint By Cathie Anderson December 11, 2017 Psychiatrist Lenton Morrow The California Medical Board ordered that Dr. Lenton Joby Morrow, who practiced at a Sacramento psychiatric hospital, surrender his medical license on Nov. 28 after investigating complaints that he had sexually abused one patient and overprescribed drugs to five others. Records from the medical board state that Morrow, 40, faced discipline as a result of his work with patients at Heritage Oaks Hospital and at a chemical dependency treatment center called Strategies for Change, which has two locations [...]