Mercyneal--Your comment made me think of Art Silverman, the Oregon therapist who worked with young disabled boys who had been sexually abused. At his appeal, there was this peak into his past. Every single time I read it, I am just gob-smacked that someone can be so bold and arrogant. This looks exactly like Ayres approach:
http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/A99377.htm
"A psychiatrist, Dr. Kjaer, who evaluated defendant at the request of his attorney, also provided a report. That report indicates that
defendant had sexual experiences with adolescent males when he himself was an adolescent and that he was arrested at age 21 for inappropriate sexual contact with a male, after which he received several years of psychotherapy.
Defendant continued to receive therapy at regular intervals throughout his life and was advised by a therapist not to discuss his homosexual inclinations with his wife.
Defendant reported to Kjaer that, in his therapy practice,
he had treated a 10-year-old boy for sexual abuse and that, when the boy reached the age of 22, they had an affair. Kjaer opined that,
because of defendant's grief and depression over the ending of the affair with the 22-year-old, he had allowed himself to become preoccupied with the victims, whom Kjaer described as "inquisitive sexual animals."
Psychological testing showed that defendant was depressed, but not psychotic. Kjaer opined in his report that defendant should continue to receive treatment from his treating psychiatrist, that he should possibly attend a short inpatient treatment program, and that "the two alleged victims should be excluded from the immediate vicinity of the defendant." In his report, Kjaer further opined that it would be "unreasonable to incarcerate someone who has struggled so long privately with this disorder and now is making genuine progress towards recovery."
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Defendant admitted to Knapp that he had engaged in oral sex and mutual masturbation with one of the victims on five occasions. Defendant reported that he had first been
arrested at age 21 after making sexual overtures to a male college student in a bathroom. He received extensive psychotherapy for many years after this incident. Defendant reported that, in 1993 or 1994,
he had an affair with a 23-year-old male who had formerly been his patient when the male was 9 through 15 years of age.
According to defendant, this male later developed psychological difficulties and claimed that defendant had molested him when he had been a patient, which defendant maintained was not true. Defendant also told Knapp that "
he felt it was possible to molest the young boy by whom he is currently being charged without harming the boy," that "not all molestation leads to serious damage," and that he "
did not do anything to the young boy that the young boy did not want him to do." Knapp opined that defendant suffered from
depression and pedophilia, would be amenable to outpatient sex-offender treatment, and could benefit from individual psychotherapy."