Sexual Abuse Personal Injury Law FirmÂ in Macomb County, Michigan

Hello. My name is Bob Garvey. I’m a plaintiff, personal injury attorney from St. Clair Shores, Macomb County, Michigan. Today I’d like to talk to you about therapist, psychiatrist, patient, sexual abuse cases. Unfortunately, these cases are very common and the public is not always aware of the fact that, basically, if a therapist wants to seduce a patient, he or she is more often than not going to succeed. There’s a reason for this.Â Patients come to a therapist in a state of great need and vulnerability, first of all. Second of all, the therapist or psychiatrist is trained to manipulate the thought process of the patient, in a good way.

What happens in these sexual abuse cases, is that the psychiatrist or therapist uses their training, the training that is supposed to allow them to manipulate a patient for the patient’s good, to help them put their life back together. But they turn the process around and use it selfishly to manipulate the patient, in this case for, to satisfy their sexual needs.Â These sexual abuse cases are devastating to the patient. In almost every circumstance, there is a high incidence of suicide following these relationships. Because the patient realizes that what this therapist did was wrong. And they get dumped by the therapist, and in many cases the patient falls in love with the therapist and it’s a train wreck at the end of it.

We just successfully represented a female patient against a male therapist for more than a million dollars in damages and it was not pretty what happened to this person.

SoÂ if you have been a victim of sexual abuse, it can be a male therapist with a female, a male, I mean if your therapist has been engaged in sexual conduct with you, in most states it’s actually a felony. In the state of Michigan sexual abuse is a felony. And the reason it’s a felony is because of this tremendous power imbalance that the therapist holds over the patient and the tremendous power that they have to manipulate. So, they do incredible damage, it happens it’s almost an epidemic.Â If you have that kind of problem, you need to speak to a sexual abuse personal injury lawyer. Obviously, you need to speak to a therapist as well.Â Thank you.