tailieunhanh - Whores of the Court - The Fraud of Psychiatric Testimony and the Rape of American Justice

Psychologist Margaret Hagen, a professor and medical industry insider, details the very real danger of this booming business. In every state, a child can be taken away from a parent on the strength of five minutes of "neutral" testimony from a social worker. A criminal suspect’s freedom or incarceration can depend on a superficial psychological examination performed by an incompetent, overworked, or, at worst, paid-off psychologist. Parole hearings hinge on the testimony of similarly incomplete or fraudulent evaluations, allowing "rehabilitated" violent criminals back onto the street to commit more heinous crimes, with no accountability for the reviewing "expert." Unmasking some. | I Whores of the Court Psychologists as De Facto Triers of Fact in Our Justice System In February 1992 Eileen Lipsker came to the Fairmont Hotel ballroom in San Francisco to explain the process of her memory return and her testimony at the trial to the American College of Psychiatrists. Afterward the psychiatrists including some of the most distinguished members of the profession in this country crowded around Eileen. They believed her they told her. They admired her. They felt intense compassion for her ordeal. At first Eileen s big light-brown eyes looked doubtful. But along came another psychiatrist and another and yet another. With each one of their congratulations Eileen brightened a bit. And soon she was glowing like the moon. Lenore Terr Unchained Memories 1994 THE PSYCHOLOGY-BASED COURT CASE One afternoon in early 1989 Eileen Franklin Lipsker a young American mother gazed deeply into her daughter s dark eyes and fell directly into a nightmare twenty years past. The merest accident of expression in her daughter s eyes brought Eileen face-to-face with another child long dead brutally murdered in California in 1969. With the vision of the dead child s face as the key a whole vault of terrible memories of that long ago death became unlocked in Eileen Franklin s mind and she began to remember slowly at first but then 2 WHORES OF THE COURT faster and faster what her mind had fought so hard to keep hidden from view that as a child herself she had witnessed the murder of her little friend Susan Nason at the hands of Eileen s own father George Franklin. When these long repressed memories were fully recovered and Eileen knew what she had she also knew what she had to do. She brought before the legal authorities in California her memory of that terrible trauma from so long ago. On November 28 1989 the police arrested George Franklin and charged him with the murder of nine year old Susan Nason twenty years before. There was not much direct evidence in this case. Susan s