"Past Lives" Psychologist Loses License [news, 1997]
From: campbell@ufomind.com (Glenn Campbell, Las Vegas)
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 09:10:49 -0800
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[This item is 7 months old]
Found at: http://www.metroactive.com/papers/saratoga.news/08.20.97/Psychologist.html
Fiore is author of "You Have Been Here Before: A Psychologist Looks
at Past Lives."
There are parallels between this case and that of Richard Boylan.
(www.ufomind.com/people/b/boylan/)
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Saratoga (CA) News (Weekly), August 20, 1997
A SARATOGA PSYCHOLOGIST CHARGED WITH NEGLIGENCE
Giving up license avoids an administrative trial
Practice closed Aug. 10
By Michelle Alaimo
A Saratoga psychologist agreed to surrender her license on Aug.10
after the California State Board of Psychology accused her of "being
grossly negligent."
The board filed a formal accusation against Edith Fiore, Ph.D., whose
office was located at 20688 Fourth St. in Saratoga, charging her with
gross negligence for discussing her personal and romantic life during
therapy sessions; not obtaining a signed consent for an unusual
treatment procedure; imposing her own belief system on her patient,
known only as "J.H."; and telling J.H. that past-life regression
therapy would cure her.
State Deputy Attorney General Susan Meadows said that based on the
facts, the case is "uncommon."
The Board of Psychology first brought an accusation against Fiore in
April 1995, after one of her patients filed a complaint to the board
about Fiore's treatment of her. In the board's complaint against
Fiore, J.H. said she first sought treatment from Fiore in May 1992
because she was "distressed over a medical condition that required
surgery." Fiore charged J.H., who is disabled with a serious illness,
$240 per session.
The documents state that Fiore told J.H. she would use hypnosis to
remove 90 entities, comprised of dead people, from J.H.'s person.
J.H. said she told Fiore after two or three sessions that the hypnosis
was not working.Documents state Fiore told J.H. she would then
hypnotize her to go back into her past life.
In July 1992, Fiore allegedly discussed her love life with J.H. during
a therapy session. During one of J.H.'s sessions, Fiore reportedly
told her that the entities had been removed "and that they should
explore whether J.H. may have been abducted by unidentified flying
objects [UFOs]."
Documents also charge that Fiore, who has held state license number
PSY 4144 since June 26, 1974, was verbally abusive to J.H. and would
not discuss topics that J.H. wanted to discuss. J.H. claimed she
sometimes felt afraid of Fiore.
Meadows said Fiore surrendered her license and agreed to stipulations
made by the state and the board without going to an administrative
trial. Fiore, who did not return phone calls from the Saratoga News,
told Meadows--and states on her office voicemail--that she has retired
from the clinical practice of psychology.
With the surrender of her license, Fiore can no longer practice as a
psychologist in the state of California. In three years, Fiore may
petition the board for reinstatement of her license. If she petitions
and her license is reinstated, Fiore will be required to pay
$10,706.27 to the board for the cost of her investigation.
Meadows said she did not believe Fiore will try to reinstate her
license. "[Fiore] wants to move on with her life," she said.
It is unknown whether J.H. has or will file a civil suit against Fiore
to retrieve money she paid to Fiore for her therapy sessions.
The Board of Psychology received about 600 complaints statewide about
psychologists from July 1996 to June 1997, according to the board's
latest statistics. Of those cases, nine psychologists had decisions
handed down against them for gross negligence.
(c) 1997 Metro Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.
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