Psychologist Found Guilty in Misconduct case.

Please see our update regarding this story. Many elements of the story seem to be not true, based on false reports to the newspaper in question.

Marek Jantos did have his registration removed, as noted on the website of Southern Australian Psychology Board, having been found "Guilty of gross professional negligence, malpractice and misconduct." The Crown Solicitor made a statement that "it was not the Registrar's case, nor a finding of the board, that Mr Jantos had been engaged, in any way, in sexual misconduct"

Thus the report that Mr. Jantos was guilty of "gross professional misconduct for molesting a patient" is NOT True

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As seen in this report from Adelaide Now.

A psychologist who lectured at Adelaide University has been found guilty of gross professional misconduct for molesting a patient. [NOT TRUE, AS NOTED ABOVE]

Marek Jantos who had connections to the Seventh Day Adventist Church, was finally deregistered on November 11 this year, although police were notified of his actions in 2004.

The South Australian Psychological Board launched an inquiry into Mr Jantos after a patient reported he had sexually abused her with medical instruments and with his hand, and told her not to tell anyone. [NOT TRUE AS NOTED ABOVE]

The inquiry also found he had falsely called himself a doctor, did not follow proper hygiene procedures and, in one case, treated the patient on a sofa in a caravan park cabin in Port Augusta.

The patient first saw Mr Jantos in 2003. After a third consultation at the beginning of 2004, during which Mr Jantos used his whole hand in an "internal massage", the patient described feeling dizzy, sick, deeply distressed and upset and resolved not to see him again.

The board started an inquiry in July 2005.

Mr Jantos is an affiliate lecturer at the University of Adelaide but the institution will review his position this week. He is also the director of the Adelaide-based Behavioural Medicine Institute of Australia, has been published in the Medical Journal of Australia and is understood to have been connected to Adventist Health – the health branch of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.

Mr Jantos denied the allegations and asked the board to accept "that the allegations made by Patient K are either misguided, a product of the patient's imagination or blatantly false".

When asked whether he considered his actions to be "within the proper bounds of the practice for psychology", he responded that they were.

"I am not saying every psychologist does that but there are certain circumstances if you work with chronic pain conditions pertaining to the pelvic floor that might occur . . . and I won't deny that I have been involved in doing that," he said.

The board found it "incomprehensible" that Mr Jantos thought his actions were acceptable.

"We cannot help but think that no reasonable member of the public would think otherwise either," the board found.

Mr Jantos could not be contacted for comment yesterday.