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Dear List,
I formed what I consider a client relationship with a psychologist. Maybe I am legally wrong, but here is the situation. He chatted with me about the death of my mother. I then paid him $60. We then went into a dual relationship as he is a Buddhist guru. What I have read in the Patient Bill of RIghts for my state is that even one session, delineates a client/ therapist relationship any time, after the time of payment. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's my understanding of the law.
At least, qualitatively, I actively pursued Mitchell for psychological advice and then, later, advice about Buddhism as he is a Buddhist guru.
This person, Mitchell GInsberg has threatened to sue me, if I write a "malicious" complaint to the APA. It is not malicious, though. He has known from the get go, that I am legally disabled, due to bipolar disorder.
He then proceded to make his internet group a hostile place for me, where I received thinly veiled threats of bodily harm from one list member. Mitchell Ginsberg then admitted that it was indeed threatening. Yet, he allowed this person to rejoin his list, where I was then threatened again.
My complaint is NOT malicious. I have testimony from my psychologist, psychiatrist, lifecoach, friends, husband, and diary entries, about how disturbed I became due to this list. I lived in terror of the poster who threatened me, and I"m going to show you posts at the bottom. I was severely harmed, psychologically, and my complaint is genuine. I became profoundly and deeply disturbed suffering from heightened anxiety and depression because of Mitchell Ginsbergs activities.
Here is just one of my points out of many: 1. A threat is made within his group 2. Mitchell Ginsberg states and acknowledges that it is a threat 3. The original threatening party is re-admitted to the group again, and threatens me again.
You may ask why I stayed on this group. It is because I believe it is an online cult. I felt that Mitchell Ginsberg was making me try to elevate my spiritual growth, to the extent that I could overlook threats to myself. I felt that if I failed to please him, that I would not grow spiritually. Because of my disability, I am highly likely to get involved in cults, and have destructive relationships with spiritual leaders, and effectively ran into the same problems back in 1995 with another guru.
Here is the original threat:
amy you are a lying fucking psycho bitch you knew exactly why you posted that you are an ASS, amy . . . a fucking sicko ass.
[cut for brevity]
so yeah go ahead
bring it on i dare ya come on try me bitch __________________________________________________________________ Here is Mitchell Ginsberg's statement that it is a threat also cut for brevity:
1. posting threatening messages is inappropriate to this group, even if sent in coded hinking half explicit ways. 2. expressing anger and rage is inappropriate in this forum, as well. In may groups this would result in automatic expulsion and being blocked from ever signing up again. ___________________________________________________________________
Some time transpired on the list, and I was threatened again by the same poster. There was no attempt to even moderate or ban this person and I continued to be threatened.
When I finally lost my temper about the situation, I was banned, and the threate-er is still on the list to now potentially threaten other posters. Mitchell Ginsberg clearly favors this threaten - er, over me.
I may have posted to this list, in a hysterical manner, because I was being threatened and libeled, but I have not a single threat made to anyone on that list.
Mitchell Ginsberg then used his list to defame me to the 1200 people on the list, without allowing me to respond (he blocked my posts). He posted so many pages of defamatory material, that I have contacted the Federal Trade Commission about spam.
Because he was actively libeling me, and then not allowing me to defend myself, I broke down mentally and finally had to unsubscribe.
I then went outside of his personal group and onto the Internet so that I could defend myself, and also share my personal opinion about Mitchell Ginsberg. Now he is using some lawyer friend to get anything negative I post about him, shut down, or removed. He is cancelling my websites with this information on them, to the extent that I have found a free web hosting system, where I can just cut and paste a new web site in, every time he tries to keep me from making a web site. He threatens me with legal action to try to keep me from making a VALID complaint to the APA.
I know that these Usenet posts rise to the top of Google, when anyone does a search on his name.
So, apparently, he is such a control freak that he just has anything I say removed.
He has threatened me with legal action if I DARE to file a complaint with the APA.
As anyone can clearly see, he did things that are genuinely upsetting to any normal person. Knowing that I was disabled due to bipolar, makes what he did, quite malicious in and of itself and completely incompetent as a psychologist. In fact, he has stated that I am not disabled, when I am indeed legally disabled. Apparently his narcissism is so great that he does not recognize the governmental bodies that have declared I am legally disabled. He just denies it is so, but it is what it is: a legal disability.
It was a disability he chose to ignore, and then he began discriminating against me and would not allow accomodations that were meager. For example, I am more subject to impulse than others. I asked for a disability accomodation for this, and it was denied. He then further stated that if I could not keep up with the group, that I would be kicked off.
If he does sue me, I have a good basis for tort of outrage, and negligent or intentional infliction of emotional distress. I'm sure it will also look good for a psychologist to sue a disabled client, and that would become quite a public matter. There are probably other causes of action, being that he is a psychologist and I am his client and when he loses, he will most likely lose his license to practice.
If Mitchell Ginsberg had allowed me to defend myself within his Insightpractice list, I would have never come to the "outside internet". Instead, he allowed post after post of defamatory remarks. He made his own defamatory remarks, some as many as 20 pages long. Yet, he blocked my ability to defend myself. What other choice did I have, other than to come to the outside internet?
On the outside internet (the internet outside of his private list - Insightpractice yahoogroup), he is having his cult followers erase things as fast as I can put them up. It is clearly a internet, online cult, due to the dedication of the followers.
He has written a book called Calm, Clear and Loving. His 20 page rants within Insightpractice list are not Calm. He is not clear when he tries to control everything I say that is negative about him. And Loving? Are you kidding? He threatened to sue me for filing a complaint to the APA! How "loving" and "calm" is that?
I hope he reads this, and I hope he knows that a genuine lawsuit against me, would come with powerful countersuits. If he knew anything about lawsuits, he would also know that they are 2 years long, and take up your time from your enjoyable life. There are also costs, with $4000/ day for depositions. He is also likely to lose, due to the emotional harm he inflicted against a disabled woman, and he would most likely lose his license to practice.
Any "scary legal letters" sent to my home will be refused by me, and brought back to the post office. I have a lawyer too, and I can send "scary letters", too.
The person who threatened me, originally, on insightpractice, has now come to the outside internet, to harass me on usenet groups, and also sent me a threatening e-mail, even though I have told him in the past not to contact me. That would be -ts- or Terry Stiemsma. ________________________________________________________________________ More below Hello, New Members of Insightpractice List:. Welcome. <? Survivors of Insightpractice, an opinion piece by an ex cult Survivor: A place run by Mitchell Ginsberg, David Andrews of Belleville, Ontario and manned by Terry Stiemsma and Yosy Flug, although there are several dozen people in the overall cult. This page is about a person who I believe is a total charlatan. I had the misfortune of being a member of his yahoogroup, which, IMHO, has many of the signs of a mind control cult. This entire web site, is my personal opinion of Mitchell Ginsberg and his list Insightpracticelist at yahoogroups. My personal opinion is my right as an American citizen, but you wouldn't think so to deal with this, charlatan, Mitchell Ginsberg who has already threatened to sue me, for merely speaking what I believe to be true. The reason that I believe Mitchell Ginsberg is running a mind control cult, is that in Buddhism, he is considered a "guru", and all manner of his followers have gone into my real life, and my internet life, just so that I cannot speak out about the abuse I received while I was in the cult. <? He is the author of "Clear, Calm and Loving" and like many "spiritual teachers" his is masquerading around as if he is anything associated with "Clear" or "Calm" or "Loving". How "Loving" is it to inform me that I will be sued immediately after I make a web site? He has two goons that operate with him - a Terry Stiemsma, who goes by -ts- and a Yosy Flug who, believe it or not, has written his own book about love! They follow me everywhere and I feel that Mitchell Ginsberg is directing them to act in that way, though, this is only a feeling and not a proven fact. Here are two examples of threats by Terry Stiemsma. Please know in advance that Mitchell Ginsberg took absolutely NO action in reducing threats made to me. He furthermore, not only did not recognize my disability, but encouraged others in hate speech against me, by simply not moderating them, banning them or even lifting a little finger. Being that he owned the group, at any time, he could have stopped the threats and harassment, but did not do so, and so, in my humble opinion, is complicit with the people who did threaten me. Here is one threat by Terry Stiemsma, and a second beneath it:
ari . . .
you are a lying fucking psycho bitch yopu knew exactly why you posted that. you are an ASS, ari
a fucking sicko ass.
and don't bother sending me threatening emails about contacting the NRC or FBI they know mewel . . having investigated me for the last 30 some years for the cleaerances that are required for my work. you will not be happy with theresult of what would come from them from placing false reports believe me.
in addition after your last threats by phone . . the local phone company has a few devices in place that will give me all the info i need to bust your dumb ass should you ever be stupid e enough to again threaten me by phone the next time you call me . . . we will bust your ass. . . make no mistake about it.
so yeah . . . go ahead. . . bring it on. . . i dare ya . . . come on. . . . try me, bitch . . . .
-ts-
____________________________________________________________________________________ Here is a post by a cult member, Terry Stiemsma, and his vow to stalk me, wherever I might go on the internet or probably anywhere else. We got these obscene phone calls back in 2007, and I have my suspicions. Terry, scarily enough, says that he has a security clearance by the government to work with nuclear radiation.
I have already contacted the FBI internet crime, and am about to call the FBI office in our area, due to this "security clearance" and his threats , and his promise to stalk me wherever I may go. ____________________________________________________________________________________ ari ... |
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