Reply #57: I tried suing a therapist who convinced me I had repressed memories of abuse.

[Critters2]

What a quack. You know what, according to him, was the strongest evidence that I'd been abused? The fact that I strongly denied that I had been. How's that for logic? Yet, I went along with it for a while, because he was supposed to be an expert. I finally saw it for the ruse it was. Everytime I'd be doing fine and want to quit therapy, he'd see something in my behavior that meant we had to deal with more memories. The man was nothing more than a glorified phone psychic, whose job was to keep me on the line...at $150 an hour, billed to insurance.

I tried to sue. Guess why I couldn't. The statute of limitations. His lawyer found in his notes the first time I said I didn't think I'd been abused. I had something like 4 years from that point to sue him for malpractice. I didn't file soon enough.

So, he's still practicing and teaching students the fine art of quackery at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I did file a complaint with the Illinois Dept of Professional Regulation, which got him some kind of slap on the wrist. That was mildly satisfying.

Repressed memories is bullshit. Really lucrative bullshit.