Thursday, July 17, 2003

Therapist in jail for ''Fondling Therapy"

And then we came across this item

After treating a young woman for depression a counselor decided that what she really needed was a course of the alternative approach "touching therapy". This led to sex during treatment and now a prison sentence for the therapist.

The woman, single, depressed and psychologically unstable, approached the man's counseling office for help in 1999, when she was aged 22. After several months of alternative treatment, which included conversation, yoga, and meditation, the man decided to embark on 'touching therapy', which basically involved him fondling the patient.

The woman, who had been hospitalized several times for depression, signed up for the 51-year-old man's therapy, which he marketed as "psycho-social anthropological treatment".

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