Crime and Fraud in the Mental Health Industry
Medicaid/Medicare fraud. Sexual assault. Child molestation.
Rape. Drug possession. Child pornography. Murder.
These are all crimes for which psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health practitioners have been criminally convicted and/or lost their licenses. The majority of such cases are listed in this database.
A prison term or revoked license has not always stopped a psychiatrist from later attempting to acquire a license elsewhere or even to take up unlicensed practice or practice in a sector of the healing arts that is not regulated.
Psychiatrist and psychologist professional associations do not police criminality in their ranks. Instead, as former president of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Paul Fink, arrogantly admitted: "It is the task of the APA to protect the earning power of psychiatrists."1
For these reasons, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights developed this database that lists people in the mental health industry who have been criminally convicted or had their licenses suspended or revoked so that the public, potential employers, government agencies and others can verify if a certain mental health practitioner has a criminal or disciplinary record.
1 Excerpt from Fink's candidacy statement (for presidency of the American Psychiatric Association), Psychiatric News, December 19, 1986.
