This is Samaritan Counseling Center’s advice to people who are suicidal:
“Mary knows it’s useless to try to explain her fatherless pregnancy…trust that silence”
Daily Archives: June 30, 2015
Breakdown: Sex, Suicide and the Harvard Psychiatrist
This book Breakdown describes the case of psychotherapist and American Society of Addiction Medicine former president Margaret Bean-Bayog, whose ‘treatment’ led to the suicide of her patient.
The author of this book was mentioned in the movie Spotlight. The Catholic Church spent up to $50 million dollars (as of 2002) on 12-step rehabs for pedophile priests.
When Helping Starts to Hurt
“Members of Alcoholics Anonymous cannot and will not permit themselves to forget their brokenness and vulnerability. Their wounds are acknowledged, accepted, and kept visible. The capacity of one alcoholic to empathize with another is still a recognized as “building a transmission line to him”. The apparent (or presumable) effectiveness of AA’s members in the care and treatment of their fellow alcoholics is one of the great success stories of our time, and graphically illustrates
the power of wounds, when used creatively, to lighten the burden of pain and suffering. AA offers lifelong emotional support to those who explicity acknowledge their problem and admit their helplessness to face life’s stresses and temptations to regression alone.” – David Olsen, Executive Director of Samaritan Counseling Center
Saying No to Say Yes
A book about clergy sexual misconduct. which pretty much avoids the issue.
“In congregational life, too often clergy become the scapegoat for their congregations.” – David Olsen
“…there had been a significant boundary violation involving sexual misconduct that was never processed openly…the misconduct was never discussed in any formal or direct way.” – David Olsen
New York State Office of Professions
“Nothing you are saying now makes any sense If you have anything further to say please address to:
Office of Professional Discipline
80 Wolf Road-suite 204
Albany, New York 12205
I will not be responding to anymore of your emails.
Michael A. Kinley
Supervising Investigator”
This email was from 1/12/15
Reasons reported by Yelp for Removing Reviews of Samaritan Counseling Center
Hurts every time that Samaritan Counseling won’t let me talk. It’s cruel and unethical to avoid an important discussion. David Olsen trains therapists of Samaritan Institute and Jenness Clairmont is on the NYS Office of Professions licensing board, and neither of them bothered to respond to my complaint in a reasonable manner.
Imagine if Samaritan Counseling has been handling feedback this way since 1985! Every single Samaritan Counseling Center seems to provide ‘addiction’ services, and that treatment is clearly 12-step ‘Facilitation’ (aka coercive indoctrination). That means in 2013, I had no way of knowing whether anybody had a similar bad experience there, because there are zero reviews to be found, even after 25+ years in business! I did find this one.
Hi Tom,
Your review was brought to our attention by the Yelp community, and we found that it fell outside our Content Guidelines because it did not provide enough detail about your customer experience.
Regards,
Hansel
Yelp Support
San Francisco, California
Hi Tom,
We wanted to let you know that we’ve removed your review and review update of Samaritan Counseling Center because of privacy concerns.
Please be aware that reposting content to this business listing may result in closure of your account, and that the content you post will be subject to removal without notification.
Regards,
Hansel
Yelp Support
San Francisco, California
Hi Tom,
We wanted to let you know that we’ve removed your review of Samaritan Counseling Center. Our Support team has determined that it falls outside our Content Guidelines (http://www.yelp.com/guidelines) because it lacks a substantive consumer experience. When reviewing, please describe your actual experience with a business.
We hope you will continue to participate on Yelp while keeping our Content Guidelines in mind.
Regards,
Josie
Yelp Support
San Francisco, California
WTF
Hi Tom,
We’re writing to let you know that we’ve removed your reviews of Samaritan Counseling Center because the content falls outside our Content Guidelines (http://www.yelp.com/guidelines). When reviewing, you should review the location with which you had a firsthand experience, rather than posting the same experience across multiple listings. Thanks for understanding.
We hope you will continue to participate on Yelp while keeping our Content Guidelines in mind.
Regards,
Ferris
Yelp Support
San Francisco, California