In all of the published material relating to the
Criminal Injury Compensation Program it is stated that a crime or criminal
intent must have occurred. However in an article published in a major Vancouver
newspaper in March of 1999 appeared the following:
"In a separate case, a report of the WCB's appeal division
noted a woman had received $9,500 for pain and suffering, as well as thousands
of dollars in disability payments for a crime the board felt probably never
occurred."
Contradiction? Certainly. Combine this with the
total lack of any monitoring agenda involving the therapy practices of
those "therapists" plus the ease with which individuals can qualify to
be placed on that WCB payroll as therapists and there is no way anyone
can quantify the types of therapy WCB sponsors.
Result? An unjustifiable waste of tax money and
needless destruction of innocent citizens.
Lets take a closer look at the methodologies employed
by Therapists Donahue and Oaks in their use of the quackery of Recovered
Memory Therapy.
As reported earlier Therapist Oaks failed to make
any notes during the whole of the more than one year. When she was ordered
by the court to produce her notes the only information she could provide
was a precise record of the payments she had received from WCB.
This unethical and total lack of professionalism
presents two obvious questions:
1. How can there be any comprehensive continuity of long-term
treatment based solely on the memory of the practitioner?
2. Should a practitioner become incapacitated, how does
a follow-up provider continue treatment?
Therapist Oaks' lack of documentation is unacceptable
at any level in any profession. And yet she is adequate for the Criminal
Injury Compensation Program and your tax money
There is a small window of the wizardry practiced
by Therapist Oaks acquired via the records of Therapist Donahue. From the
clinical notes, written as a result of Sharon's "therapy", it is obvious
that the two sisters discussed many of their different allegations. Sharon
in turn regurgitated these allegations to her "therapist". Through this
we learn of some of Vicki's allegations:
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Years of sexual abuse by father, including incredibly, allegations
of sexual abuse on day of her sister Marilyn’s funeral.
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Incident of rape by dad and two men with rifles
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Feeling "very uncomfortable with grandfather"
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Raped by neighbor, friend of Dad's
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Sexually abused by Sharon (Sharon has no memory of this abuse
of her sister.) Mother sees incident of sexual abuse, possible intercourse,
but turns away and does nothing. (Mother has no memory of this incident.)
With Therapist Donahue it is again much easier to scrutinize.
Firstly a look at the methodologies she used to
conjure up "memories".
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Journeys a form of hypnotism where the patient is put into
a trance and travels back to another age (This is the same methodology
that results is claims of past lives and space alien abduction.)
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Art interpretation Therapist Donahue possesses the magical
power to decode the drawings of her "patients". (The obvious advantage
to this is that the patient does not have to vocalize her "memories". Therapist
Donahue is able to tell the patient what "memories" she is "recovering".
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Dream journals the patient is instructed to maintain a notepad
by her bedside. Then when she is awakened by bad dreams, very probable
caused by the stress of manufacturing abuse "memories" during the day,
thepatient records these nightmares before she forgets them. Should the
patient have a strange or weird dream, that is also recorded and Therapist
Donahue provides the decoding much like with drawings. Curiously the "therapist"
finds sexual abuse in each. The patient is told that these bad dreams are
sub-conscious or repressed "memories" working their way into the conscious.
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Body memories headache, nausea, dizziness, a sense that something
happened, all to the Recovered Memory Therapist are interpreted as "memories"
of sexual abuse which were so grave that the mind could not manage in the
normal memory system therefore these "memories" were stored in a body locations
for later retrieval.
Photo interpretation
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The patient has accepted the "therapist's" notion that she
is the victim of unremembered sexual abuse. From this time on the patient
desperately needs and searches for "hard evidence" of this abuse. What
greater avenue to examination the past than through photos. The patient
and her "therapist" comb the family albums for any photos that might record
an act of abuse. When none is found they hunt for childhood photos of the
patient which reflect the patient in an unhappy or sad mood or pose. When
a photo like this is discovered it is taken that sexual abuse has happened
just prior to the photo. For the fervent devotee a picture of a sad child
is the "photographic proof of abuse" so feverishly sought. Abuse which
supposedly having taken place just prior to the picture being taken. Their
logic is that children by nature are happy and they are sad only when something
bad or hurtful happens. Why did the child not report the abuse at the time?
Because the child repressed the memory of the incident. Why did not anyone
ever see any signs of the abuse? Because the "perpetrator" is so clever.
(This technique is particularly dangerous in any court testimony
because not only does the accuser have the conjured "memories" of an assault
but they also are able to testify what clothing they were wearing and other
factual details recorded by the photo. That photo is then produced in court
in support of the "memories". No mention is made of the fact that it was
this same photo that initiated the "memories". And because the testimony
regarding the clothing, scenery etc is substantiated by the picture then
it follows that the "memories" of the alleged abuse is believed.)
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Gestalt therapy. The concept of this type of therapy is roll
playing. The patient expresses emotion, usually anger, as a result of the
newfound abuse. In these re-enactment sessions the patient takes the part
of the now newly empowered victim and the "therapist" plays the roll of
the evil dominating perpetrator. (When doing this type of "therapy" the
screams from my daughter were so loud that Therapist Donahue would hold
the sessions in her car so as not to disturb other members of the office
building.)
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Inner-child healing. The patient is instructed that they
possess and "inner-child". As the "therapy" progresses this "inner-child"
becomes a separate entity. The adult patient is encouraged to communicate
with this "inner-child". The communication process consists of the adult
patient writing to the "inner-child" utilizing her normal writing hand.
The patient then transfers the writing instrument to her other hand and
writes a response supposedly from the "inner-child".
When this is done, to the distraught patient who has
by now surrendered all her critiquing power to her "therapist", there appears,
through misguided logic, support of the existence of the "inner-child".
One set-of-writing appears adult in formation and the other, written with
the hand not normally used for writing, appears like the unstable penmanship
of a child. As the "therapy" proceeds the adult patient is encouraged to
allow this "inner-person" to have periods of control of the body, to be
the dominant personality. The result of this although now invisible to
the adult patient, is so degrading to the patient as this adult person
goes through the periods of behaving like a small child.
(How humiliating for my daughter and her boyfriend. Both
were acting like little children as they attended "therapy" from this man
for their respective "inner-child". "What a joke" this Harry must think
of these mixed up people as he collects his large hourly rate of pay.) |
Employing these
techniques what memories was WCB Therapist Donahue able to produce?
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Long-tern sexual abuse by father including intercourse at
6 yrs old and abuse at a birthday party.
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Playing rape with childhood friend using their dolls.
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Suspecting father of same childhood friend of unspecified
something bad.
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Sexual abuse by her live-in boyfriend’s father.
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Boyfriend’s father sexual abused his grandchildren.
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Father’s father abuse that was not specific.
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Sexual abuse by father, an unnamed man and a dog.
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Sexual abuse by a school teacher.
And by the end of the year of therapy my daughter and her
Therapist Donahue had "discovered" 3 alters. Three people/personalities
living in the same body. And of course, as previously stated Recovered
Memory Therapy, respects no one. Marilyn, Sharon’s sister, who died at
age 17 of leukemia, is accused of sexually abusing Sharon.
(Note: In all of the therapy not once did therapist Donahue
explore the difficulties left on our lives from the tragic death of Marilyn.
And in fact a 16-year-old neighborhood boy approached Sharon sexually at
age 7. As parents we were immediately aware as Sharon came to us with this
complaint and as a result that situation was monitored to ensure it did
not happen again. This never appears in therapy. Why? Well one good guess
is that Therapist Donahue knew that WCB would not pay for "therapy" if
that were the complaint.) |