Bizarre Claim Against Eating Disorder Clinic (inducing false memories of being raped/satanic cult)

[The Straight Story]

Bizarre Claim Against Eating Disorder Clinic


CLAYTON, Mo. (CN) - A woman claims a psychologist at an eating-disorder clinic hypnotized her while she was on psychotropic drugs, inducing false memories of being raped and belonging to a satanic cult. She claims he did this recklessly, "based partly on her ability to pay for long-term continuous inpatient services," and told her that that if she sued, "her perpetration of various criminal and horrific acts of abuse would be revealed".

Lisa Nasseff sued the Castlewood Treatment Center and Mark Schwartz, Sc.D., (Doctor of Science) in St. Louis County Court. She seeks repayment of $650,000 in medical expenses, much of it unnecessary, which she says she laid out during more than a year of inpatient treatment.

Nasseff claims her false memories were a result of Schwartz's use of hypnotic therapy while she was under the influence of psychotropic drugs. She claims the false memories caused her to believe she was the victim of sexual abuse, rape and satanic ritual abuse; caused her to believe she was a member of a satanic cult that had committed crimes; and that she had 20 different personalities.

"We're not talking about memories from when she was a little kid," Nasseff's attorney Kenneth Vuylsteke told Courthouse News. "We're talking about a 28-year-old woman who believed that a couple of years ago that she participated in satanic abuse and sacrificed babies. ... These aren't memories that happened to little kids. These are memories that supposedly happened two or three years ago that this woman was brainwashed to believe."

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/11/28/41725.htm

[DCKit]

1. Very creative. nt