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An Orléans psychotherapist has been found incompetent to practise and guilty of sexually abusing one of his patients.
In a ruling released this week, the a five-member disciplinary committee of the Ontario College of Physician and Surgeons ruled that Dr. Paul Albert Mitchell had engaged in “disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional” conduct.
The case involved a female patient who began seeing Mitchell in 2009 to be treated for anxiety, depression and suicidal tendencies. Mitchell, who at times saw the patient three times a week, characterized the treatment as “bitching and complaining therapy,” and communicated with the patient over their four-year relationship in face-to-face meetings, by telephone and through text messages. The patient recorded many of the sessions, sometimes with Mitchell’s knowledge and other times in secret.
At times, Mitchell lambasted the patient with words such as “you’re completely hopeless” and telling her “you have no f—ing life.” Mitchell explained it away as role-playing, but the committee found the patient sounded “bewildered and confused” in the audio recordings of the sessions.
At other times, Mitchell made sexual remarks, including referring to “sex on a stick” and calling the patient a “sexy coy bitch.”
Mitchell graduated from the University of Western Ontario medical school in 1981 and has practised in Ottawa since 1991.
As for the patient, the committee found her to be “calculating and manipulative,” noting she admitted making false allegations against Mitchell, filed a police report against him and falsely claimed he had put his hand in her panties and sent her photographs.
But her behaviour was part of her mental illness and the reason she had come for treatment in the first place, the committee ruled, noting that “the issue is not so much of her illness but of how it was recognized and responded to.”
An expert witness called by the committee found “multiple boundary violations” by both doctor and patient and likened the text communication between Mitchell and the patient to “a chaotic mess,” particularly after the patient said she was quitting the sessions and sent a letter of complaint to the college.
In its ruling, the committee found Mitchell guilty on four counts: failing to maintain the standard of practice of the profession; engaging in disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional conduct in his care and treatment of the patient; engaging in sexual abuse of the patient (because of the sexual comments); and that he was incompetent to practice.
The college will schedule a penalty hearing “at its earliest opportunity.”
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In a ruling released this week, the a five-member disciplinary committee of the Ontario College of Physician and Surgeons ruled that Dr. Paul Albert Mitchell had engaged in “disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional” conduct.
The case involved a female patient who began seeing Mitchell in 2009 to be treated for anxiety, depression and suicidal tendencies. Mitchell, who at times saw the patient three times a week, characterized the treatment as “bitching and complaining therapy,” and communicated with the patient over their four-year relationship in face-to-face meetings, by telephone and through text messages. The patient recorded many of the sessions, sometimes with Mitchell’s knowledge and other times in secret.
At times, Mitchell lambasted the patient with words such as “you’re completely hopeless” and telling her “you have no f—ing life.” Mitchell explained it away as role-playing, but the committee found the patient sounded “bewildered and confused” in the audio recordings of the sessions.
At other times, Mitchell made sexual remarks, including referring to “sex on a stick” and calling the patient a “sexy coy bitch.”
Mitchell graduated from the University of Western Ontario medical school in 1981 and has practised in Ottawa since 1991.
As for the patient, the committee found her to be “calculating and manipulative,” noting she admitted making false allegations against Mitchell, filed a police report against him and falsely claimed he had put his hand in her panties and sent her photographs.
But her behaviour was part of her mental illness and the reason she had come for treatment in the first place, the committee ruled, noting that “the issue is not so much of her illness but of how it was recognized and responded to.”
An expert witness called by the committee found “multiple boundary violations” by both doctor and patient and likened the text communication between Mitchell and the patient to “a chaotic mess,” particularly after the patient said she was quitting the sessions and sent a letter of complaint to the college.
In its ruling, the committee found Mitchell guilty on four counts: failing to maintain the standard of practice of the profession; engaging in disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional conduct in his care and treatment of the patient; engaging in sexual abuse of the patient (because of the sexual comments); and that he was incompetent to practice.
The college will schedule a penalty hearing “at its earliest opportunity.”
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