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Sadism - Just Because it Seems So Relevant to Talk About Today

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/and-running/202106/the-personality-disorder-we-dont-hear-enough-about From Psychology Today - The Personality Disorder We Don't Hear Enough About Today - The Sadistic Personality Disorder   Sadistic personality disorder is no longer in the DSM, but it's still recognized by personality aficionados. The chief component of sadistic personality is taking pleasure in cruel, demeaning, and aggressive behaviors as a means of control. It is differentiated from antisocial personality disorder in that, for the sadistic personality, cruelty and aggression is an end unto itself.  Cited from the article. Also from Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/conditions/sexual-sadism-disorder (sexual sadism disorder)

Broken Records Same Old. Same Old. Nothing Ever Changes. Just the Name

I wrote this letter decades ago to the Head of Psychiatry at St. Boniface Hospital.  Amazing how relevant it still is today.  Just change the name to ?    To [Dr. Manny Matas] In August 1986 I entered your psychotherapy program.  I was admitted as a patient through emergency. After a succession of four therapists and three overdoses I quit in August of 1987.  In November of 1987 during a crisis period I approach my general practitioner about helping me find another psychiatrist/therapist.  Because of my history at St. Boniface, he suggested it would be best to return there.  He contacted a senior staff member who informed him that St. Boniface was not willing to take me on as a patient.  I was too much of a problem, unwilling to cooperate in treatment.  This letter is a reply to that assessment, directed to you in your capacity as head of the department. I was not the problem in therapy, your staff and your system were.  ...

Dysfunctional Families ? Possibly There When You Needed Them The Most?

I could post a copy of a medical record from HSC authored by Dr. Sammy Barakat from the time I was admitted under her care. Just too overwhelmed by the number of documents I have in my possession to try to find it. My parents who were divorced by then (since 1967) were interviewed by this psychiatrist.  I am not sure why.  I was asked to attend the same meeting but declined.  The contempt that one always had for the other ran very deep and there obviously was a history of physical violence that one never saw fit to divulge to any but those who knew her best and cared.  There were many issues involved  and I wasn't about to step into "share" or attempt to deal with what was a very explosive family situation or its fallout that could have destroyed any hope of a future relation with either.   I felt that age 27, my family members need not concern themselves with what happened because of a deranged (by the admission of the CPSM,) mentally unstable psychia...

The Diagnosis of "Paranoid Schizophrenia" Onset Age - 50 A Message to Dr. Randolph Goossen,

Dr Randolph B Goossen Assistant Professor Medical Director of Community Mental Health WRHA – U of Manitoba 2025-09-16 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_schizophrenia State abuses in the 20th century Main article: Political abuse of psychiatry Eugenics In the first half of the 20th century schizophrenia was considered to be a hereditary defect, and affected people were subject to eugenics in many countries. Hundreds of thousands were sterilized , with or without consent—the majority in Nazi Germany , the United States , and Scandinavian countries. [ 34 ] [ 35 ] Along with other people labeled "mentally unfit", many diagnosed with schizophrenia were murdered in the Nazi " Action T4 " program. [ 36 ] Schizophrenia under Nazi rule In 1933 Dr. Ernst Rüdin , who was in-charge of the Genealogical-Demographic Department of the German Institute for Psychiatric Research in Munich, expressed his interest in schizophrenia and with the help of Franz Kallmann , ...

The Myth of the "Rape Culture" - a Victim/Survivor Perspective OP ED JMHO

Should I choose to believe what members of the intellectual elite have to say with respect to what are apparently commonly accepted beliefs about rape/sexual assault/abuse/harassment...held by for example by solicitous licensed health care professionals, members of the bar (criminal defence attorneys) and even jurors, how could or would I defend myself against this type of institutionalized strategy and tactic for "blaming the victim" should I wish to pursue either a civil litigation or criminal complaint. A complaint was made to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba by  Dr. Richard Dearing, Director, Interfaith Pastoral Counselling Institute re: the sexual misconduct of a psychiatrist that he had knowledge of.   I confided to him details of my experience with Dr. Wilhelm Kreyes, hoping he could help me escape from the clutches of a deranged and sexually predatory psychiatrist, living out of touch with reality by choice and armed with a gun.  My own pref...

State Sanctioned Misogyny, Medical Malpractice/Crime and Terrorism in Canada

After a very bad fall in August of 2023,  I attended to a walk in clinic at the Great Canadian Superstore on Bison Drive in South Winnipeg.  The licensed medical practitioner, presumably a physician, diagnosed a rotator cuff injury.   I received a call from the aforementioned doctor advising me to attend to an acute care facility (in this case Victoria General Hospital, the closest). When reviewing the X-ray he discovered a fractured skapula. I attended to this taxpayer funded health care facility.  I was attended by an X-ray technician who exrayed my shoulder, then was escorted to a private room to be seen by the emergency doctor working that evening.  He came to see me fairly quickly amazingly enough and advised he was perplexed by the results of this non invasive medical procedure  He saw no fracture in my sacroiliac joint which the technician indicated existed. I responded that the fracture apparently existed in my "skapula", mistakenly labelled by...

The Canadian Medical Protective Society Core Values and Beliefs: A Life and Death Lived Experience

" Consistent Core Values Dr Powell often reiterated the value: Our organization does not consist in the fights we have put up or in the open success we have had but rather in the silent influence we have swayed against litigants who for a money gain have sought to blast the reputation of conscientious, painstaking and reputable practitioners knowing or suspecting that they have an easy mark and that to avoid publicity a medical man will often submit to what amounts to blackmail. These litigants have found out that our Counsel stands ready to accept service of the writ and your Executive stands ready with a bank account to furnish the sinews of war. Dozens and dozens of cases have thus been strangled at their inception and have disappeared like dew off the grass. This feature gentlemen is the strength and glory of your association. (CMPA Annual Report, 1919)" from Wikipedia  __________________________________________________________________________ W5  Stacked O...

#patientstoo - Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 June 2021

 https://www.psychsearch.net/sexual-misconduct/ Kerr/Haslam Inquiry into sexual abuse of patients by psychiatrists https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychiatric-bulletin/article/kerrhaslam-inquiry-into-sexual-abuse-of-patients-by-psychiatrists/5CD3E21B8EBC083C21709B0BA1B49892 Blind eye to complaints allowed psychiatrists to abuse patients    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1179794/    #patientstoo – Professional sexual misconduct by healthcare professionals towards patients: a representative study Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2021 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/epidemiology-and-psychiatric-sciences/article/patientstoo-professional-sexual-misconduct-by-healthcare-professionals-towards-patients-a-representative-study/A5638D5131F8E981299564F73CBCD6F9 W5 Canadian Television Series - Stacked Odds  May 31, 2021 Doctors Without Boundaries - The Fifth Estate:   Bob McKeown investigate...

You Can Turn a Blind Eye, Pretend Not to See, But NEVER Say You Did Not Know : Misogyny In Canada - Yes We Are, Yes We Are ... Demonic

It finally happened.  Spoke to a representative from the office of the Minister of Health yesterday.  Did not end well. The third successive Minister of Health in power in this province refusing to investigate the activities/actions of those employed by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba (civil servants) who denied the victims/survivors of so called "professional misconduct" some semblance of dignity by minimizing the type harm a health care professional does cause and marginalizing over and over again his/her (he/she) targets.  Before I hung up on whoever it was that returned by my phone call prior to reading the most recent communication I sent this past weekend, I did say that I did believe in time, but not for many, the type of corruption (a pattern of behaviour) that resulted in a "wrongful conviction" would be exposed again as it was with Stuart Whitley, former attorney general for the province of Manitoba. Not so sure re: a "wrongful fail...

Criminal Accusations in a Medical Record and My Defense Strategy/Tactic - Grand Finale

Just an example.   How I chose to defend myself when no one else cared to.   My husband believed it was the most incendiary statement I could have written (and dated, signed in pen, and passed on to those who accused ME of committing THE CRIME of falsely accusing a doctor (s) of sexual assault/misconduct in a medical record a patient can be denied access to.   He believed it would never be "shared" as required by PHIA and it was in fact concealed by those with the power to share medical records with those whose only intention would be to do harm. ____________________________________________________________________________________  Dated September 23, 2017 and sent via email to the Health Information Manager, Victoria General Hospital Further to my communications with you September 22, 2017, I am forwarding to you additional information which I wish to include as an integral part of my statement of correction to the medical records held in trust by...

Easy to Ignore One, Easy to Dismiss Two, How Many Does it Take - How Many Have There Been?

ATTENTION I do not intend to play telephone tag with members of the staff employed by the office of the Minister of Health.  I returned the call but received no response.  Life for civil servants is so busy isn't it? The following information is posted on my blog and shall remain there should the information be useful to those who have had to endure a similar ordeal and have been denied access to both significant and meaningful healthcare and to the justice system (obstruction of justice, failure to prosecute for whatever reason the law may allow). I believe I can/have proved systemic aggression against a patient in the mental health care system but there's no point taking appropriate legal action is there given "the toxic combination of drugs that can cause brain damage" prescribed by Dr. A. J. Derocquigny, staff psychiatrist, Victoria General Hospital including Trazodone prescribed to patients in the healthcare system, most likely as inpatients.  Mana...