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| Therapist 'told patient to have sex with prostitutes' A PSYCHOTHERAPIST told a patient with a history of mental problems to sleep with male and female prostitutes as a "cure" for his virginity, the General Medical Council was told yesterday. After two unsuccessful attempts to complete the task, the 34-year-old patient, known as "Mr A", tried to kill himself because he feared the therapist would tell him to go away at their next session for failing. Joanna Glynn, for the GMC, said: "Even for a normal person such a task would have been daunting, but for someone with such long-standing problems as Mr A it was devastating." The hearing was told that Mr A, who feared he might be homosexual, was advised by Stuart Leiberman, 52, to have sexual intercourse with male and female prostitutes before their next session "to find out if he was gay or straight". Mr A had done his best to comply, despite his parents' objections, by going to Brighton and contacting two female prostitutes through cards in telephone boxes. Terrified of contracting Aids, he covered his body with plasters to avoid being infected through a cut. The meeting was "literally and metaphorically a flop". Miss Glynn said: "He found this embarrassing and totally humiliating. Then he contacted a gay friend but he [Mr A] would not go all the way and found this was also humiliating." His confidence then plummeted further because he thought the psychotherapist would refuse to see him and he would lose his last chance of solving his problems. Mr A, now 41, said: "He said I had to find out if I was gay or straight. Who was I to believe? An expert with medical knowledge or my parents without medical knowledge?" Mr A took an overdose of tablets in August 1992. He had made other suicide attempts since then, the GMC heard. The patient had one final counselling session with Dr Leiberman, of Fleet, Hampshire, who accused him of using the suicide bid as an excuse for not losing his virginity. Miss Glynn told the professional conduct committee that Mr A, who was unemployed, had suffered a "kaleidoscope of mental problems". Dr Leiberman denies failing to keep adequate records, failing to keep himself adequately acquainted with Mr A's medical records and history and advising him to lose his virginity by sleeping with prostitutes. Reports the Telegraph 13th April 2001 |
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