TheStar (heh)-
Dr. Melvyn Iscove’s licence was suspended after he was found guilty by Ontario’s medical regulator.
A long-time Toronto psychiatrist, who believes homosexuality is a “sexual disorder” that can be overcome, has been found guilty by Ontario’s medical regulator of sexually abusing two of his male patients.
Dr. Melvyn Iscove, 72, was described in a decision of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario’s discipline committee as having a “special interest in the treatment of patients with problems related to homosexuality.”
He also engaged in mutual masturbation and oral sex with two male patients on different occasions during therapy sessions, and once had anal intercourse with one of them in his office, the committee found.
“Neither complainant described any emotional or romantic aspects of the sexual activity with Dr. Iscove, and both said that at some point, they thought that the sexual activity was part of the therapy and an attempt to cure them of homosexuality by engaging in the acts, rather than fantasizing about them,” the five-member discipline panel wrote in a decision released this week.
The doctor still faces a separate discipline hearing for an allegation of “improper conduct in a public men’s washroom,” according to his profile on the College of Physicians’ online register.
Iscove testified in his own defence, and the discipline panel noted that he studied and applied the theories of Dr. Edmund Bergler, a psychoanalyst who theorized on homosexuality in the 1950s. Passages of Bergler’s writings introduced at Iscove’s discipline hearing included “All attempts to prove homosexuality to be anything but an illness had in my opinion failed” and “there are no happy homosexuals.”
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Are they sure it wasn’t Dr. Turd Bergler that Iscove was reading?
ht/ JS
I’m not sure that’s HOW you overcome it, though… 😳
He was using the same theory as when you have a song stuck in your head, and you listen to a song over and over to get rid of it.
“All attempts to prove homosexuality to be anything but an illness had in my opinion failed”. At least the Dr. knew the truth.
This doctor was hard at work trying to solve a dilemma!
You mean to tell me I could have cured my alcoholism by drinking my face off?
All those thousands of hours I’ve wasted in AA meetings!
How do you get the dog to quit humping your leg?
Roll him over and give him a hand job.
Good Lord. Talk about taking the long and circuitous way home. People do this kind of thing without blowing (pardon me) their standing.
Doc: See? I told you that pounding in your ass would be unpleasant! You’re cured. That’ll be $200.
Have a nice day.
Is this one of those cases where the cure is worse than the disease?
Just making sure they weren’t faking it!
Like psychiatry is a real medical science. Meh.
Well, that’s what socialized medicine gets ya.
The first step in curing any illness is to determine if the patient really has the affliction. I guess he proved that they did.
The George Castanza effect in reverse? There are cases of women turning gay after sex with certain men….maybe that was his working theory.
Reminds me of this scene in Good Will Hunting…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftl_ckcpZgY