tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-193606702024-03-15T21:10:03.366-04:00My Daily StrugglesA blog devoted to the actors and public policy issues involved in the 1998 District of Columbia Court of Appeals decision in <i>Freedman v. D.C. Department of Human Rights,</i> an employment discrimination case.My Daily Struggleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12785498459884222234noreply@blogger.comBlogger3753125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19360670.post-32824052515576104712020-04-09T11:02:00.000-04:002020-04-09T11:06:39.780-04:00The (Suicidal-) Depressive Position: A Scientifically Informed Reformulation Golan Shahar<br />
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Abstract: Despite considerable progress in depression research and treatment,
the disorder continues to pose daunting challenges to scientists and practitioners alike. This article presents a novel conceptualization of the psychological
dynamics of depression which draws from Melanie Klein’s notion of the positions, reformulated using social-cognitive terms. Specifically, Klein’s notion of
position, consisting of anxieties (persecutory vs. “depressive”), defense mechanisms (“primitive”/split based vs. neurotic/repression based), and object relations (part vs. whole) is reformulated to include (1) affect, broadly defined, (2)
affect regulatory strategies (defense mechanisms, coping strategies, and motivation regulation), and (3) mental representations of self-with-others, all pertaining to the past, present, and future. I reformulate the depressive position
to include—beyond sadness, anxiety, and anhedonia—also anger/agitation,
shame, disgust, and contempt, all of which are down-regulated via diverse
mechanisms. In the depressive position, the self is experienced as wronged and
others as punitive, albeit seductive. Attempts to appease internal others (objects) are projected into the future, only to be thwarted by awkward and inept
interpersonal behavior. This might propel the use of counter-phobic, counterdependent, and “manic” affect regulatory mechanisms, potentially leading to
suicidal depression.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From:</b> Gary Freedman [<a href="mailto:garfreed@aim.com" style="color: purple; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">mailto:garfreed@aim.com</a>]<br /><b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 18, 2016 2:10 PM<br /><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:Hannah.Ong@dc.gov" style="color: purple; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">Hannah.Ong@dc.gov</a>.<br /><b>Subject:</b> criminal complaint</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />The attachment to this email contains a criminal complaint I have filed against the D.C. Department of Behavioral Health (Tanya A. Royster, M.D.) relating to DBH's denial of services. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mr. Paul Abbate </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Dear Mr. Abbate: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The enclosed documents constitute circumstantial evidence of acts of criminal fraud committed in violation of the laws of the United States and the District of Columbia.
Said fraud may ultimately lead to a financial loss to the federal government of up to $500,000. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Sincerely </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From:</b> Gary Freedman [<a href="mailto:garfreed@aim.com?" style="color: purple; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">mailto:garfreed@aim.com</a>]<br /><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 04, 2016 9:57 AM<br /><b>To:</b> Jais-Mick, Maureen (DBH)<br /><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:dc.outreach@usdoj.gov" style="color: purple; cursor: pointer;" target="_blank">dc.outreach@usdoj.gov</a>; ATD OAG<br /><b>Subject:</b> doj petition</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">RE:</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Failure of State Agency to Provide
Legally-Mandated Services</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dear Attorney General Caldwell:</span></div>
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Petition Clause of the First Amendment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I hereby petition the U.S.
Department of Justice to compel the D.C. Department of Behavioral<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Health (DBH) to provide the psychiatric
services to which I am entitled as a resident of the District of Columbia who
is disabled and who has been diagnosed with severe (psychotic) mental illness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had been receiving psychiatric services
continuously from July 1996 to until February 2, 2015 (20 years), on which date
my treatment was abruptly terminated without warning and only two weeks after
DBH dispatched an MPDC officer to my residence (January 13, 2016) out of
concerns about the severity of my mental condition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The District Government has made
numerous admissions over many years that my situation is extremely serious.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sincerely,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gary Freedman</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">cc: Dr. Royster (DBH); Karl A.
Racine (DCOAG); FBI</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">February 2, 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">3801
Connecticut Avenue, NW</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Apt. 136</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Washington, DC<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>20008</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tanya Royster, M.D.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Director</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">64 New York Avenue, NW</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dr. Royster:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I have received psychiatric
treatment provided by the D.C. Department of Behavioral Health (DBH) since the
year 1996, 20 years. On Monday February 1, 2016, I was advised by Monica
Acharya, M.D., attending physician at the K Street Clinic (35 K Street, Washington,
DC), that DBH was involuntarily terminating my psychiatric treatment with Alice
E. Stone, M.D., a third-year psychiatry resident working under the supervision
of Earle Baughman, M.D. (St. Elisabeths Hospital). Dr. Stone had been
providing psychiatric treatment to me since August 2015, five months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My patient record will not disclose any
conflicts with Dr. Stone throughout the treatment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dr. Acharya told me that I needed to
see an experienced psychiatrist, and that DBH has no experienced psychiatrists
who can treat me. Dr. Acharya made no effort to help me locate
alternative treatment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Acharya
admitted that my case is extremely serious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On the evening of January 13, 2016 Dr. Acharya had an MPDC officer
dispatched to my residence out of concerns about me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I want to make it clear:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did not refuse to see my treating
psychiatrist, Dr. Stone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had simply
requested to see a male therapist and/or a psychodynamically-oriented therapist
(see attached).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did not file a
complaint against Dr. Stone to anyone at DBH; I had communicated my concerns
about Dr. Stone’s professional competence to my case manager, Natalie Nichols
at the McClendon Center (see attached).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am a resident of the District of
Columbia; I have been diagnosed with severe (psychotic) mental illness
including paranoid schizophrenia. DBH has a legal duty to provide treatment.
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> My case is of a nature that it must
not be allowed to languish.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I need to remind you of troubling
aspects of my history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1. Dennis M. Race, Esq., (202
887-4028) senior counsel with my former employer, the law firm of Akin Gump
Strauss Hauer & Feld, determined, in consultation with a practicing
psychiatrist, that I was potentially violent and unemployable. Mr. Race
concluded that I posed a direct threat in the workplace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">2. I have been under federal
investigation by the U.S. Secret Service (redacted) as a potential security risk to former President Bill Clinton.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">3. I have been under federal
investigation by the U.S. Secret Service (redacted) as a potential
security risk to President Obama.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">4. I have been under federal
investigation by the U.S. Marshals Service (redacted) as a potential
security risk to U.S. District Court Judge (redacted). At the
time of the investigation the USMS imposed temporary protective measures
against me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">5. I was advised by the U.S.
Capitol Police (redacted) that my name has been placed on a federal
watch list of potentially violent felons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">6. In the year 2004 10 MPDC
officers (including an MPDC Second District Supervisor) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and 4 FBI agents were dispatched to my
residence based on concerns that I might become armed and extremely dangerous.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">7. I am completely isolated
socially. I have no friends or social contacts of any kind. My only
relative is a sister who lives in New Jersey. I rarely see her. I
live within walking distance of the federal district in Washington, DC. I
suffer from profound loneliness. Psychological testing performed in the
year 2014 disclosed that I am "severely paranoid."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I strongly urge the DC Department of
Behavioral Health to locate appropriate counseling treatment for me. I am
sure several U.S. Congressmen would be interested to learn about DBH's handling
of my case.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sincerely,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gary Freedman</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">January
15, 2016</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Apartment 136</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Washington,
DC<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>20008</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Monica Acharya, M.D.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mental Health Clinic </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">35 K Street, NE</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Third Floor</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Washington, DC<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>20002</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dear Dr. Acharya:</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I receive weekly out-patient
psychotherapy with Alice E. Stone, M.D. at 35 K Street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Stone’s technique is primarily
supportive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I require psychodynamic,
insight-oriented therapy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Could you help
locate a therapist for me who offers psychodynamic, insight-oriented
therapy?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The attached letter addressed
to Dr. Stone outlines some of my psychological problems.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You can reach me at telephone number
(202) 362-7064.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thank you.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sincerely,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gary
Freedman</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">January 12, 2016</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Apartment 136</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Washington,
DC<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>20008</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tanya A. Royster, M.D.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Director</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">D.C. Department of Behavioral Health</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">64 New York Avenue, NE</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dear Dr. Royster:</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am a consumer of mental health
services provided by the D.C. Department of Behavioral Health (DBH).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I receive supportive psychotherapy and
medical management provided by Alice E. Stone, M.D., a third year psychiatry
resident at 35 K Street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Stone works
under the supervision of Earle Baughman, M.D. (St. Elisabeths Hospital).</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I am deeply concerned about the
failure of DBH to provide appropriate psychotherapy for me, which would be
psychodynamic, insight oriented therapy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Supportive psychotherapy is inadequate for my needs.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I need to remind the DBH that the
D.C. Office of Attorney General and others have grave concerns about my case
and my potential for violence, including the potential for armed mass homicide.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1. The D.C. Office of Attorney
General affirmed as genuine and credible a psychiatric opinion offered to my
former employer, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld (Dennis M. Race, Esq.)
(1991) that concluded that I suffered from severe mental illness that rendered
me unsuitable for employment and a direct threat in the workplace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The employer in a sworn statement stated that
it feared, based on said psychiatric opinion, that allowing me to remain on the
firm’s premises posed a negligence risk to the firm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(The psychiatrist in question, Gertrude R.
Ticho, M.D. (deceased) denied ever having offered said opinion to the employer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See letter to William J. Earl, Esq. dated
March 19, 1996 (enclosed)).</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The D.C. Court of Appeals did not find that my former supervisor’s
published fear (1991) that I might commit a mass homicidal assault on the
firm’s premises and her act of securing her office against such an assault was
motivated by discriminatory animus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See
Record at 41, Freedman v. D.C. Dept. Human Rights, D.C.C.A. no. 96-CV-961
(Sept. 1, 1998).</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The D.C. Office of Attorney General found that my coworkers’ fears that I
might become armed and extremely dangerous in August 1989 (two years before my
job termination) were genuine and credible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The AG concluded that my coworkers had genuine and credible fears that I
might “buy a gun, bring it in, and shoot everybody.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See Brief of D.C. Office of Corporation
Counsel at 8 citing Record at 276, Freedman v. D.C. Dept. Human Rights,
D.C.C.A. no. 96-CV-961 (Sept. 1, 1998).</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On October 12, 2004 the MPDC dispatched 10 police officers and four FBI
agents to my residence to escort me to D.C. General Hospital for an emergency
forensic psychiatric examination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
MPDC feared that I might become armed and extremely dangerous.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I urge the DBH to heed the concerns
of the D.C. Attorney General and the MPDC and provide the psychodynamic
psychotherapy that I require.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thank you.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Sincerely,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Gary Freedman</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">cc: DC AG (Karl A. Racine);
USDOJ (Leslie R. Caldwell)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">MEMORANDUM<br />
</b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br />
</i>TO:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>File<br />
FROM: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dennis M. Race [initialed DMR]<br />
DATE: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>October 29, 1991 CONFIDENTIAL<br />
RE: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gary Freedman<br />
<br />
__________________________________________<br />
<br />
In the course of investigating Gary's complaints about working conditions (none
of which, by his own admission, involved activity or conduct which had a direct
impact on him), I concluded that Gary's inability to work or interrelate with
others is a substantial problem for the firm. There is only so much work that
can be done without any interaction among our staff (which is what he requests)
and his continued presence in the firm has been extremely disruptive. Reported
outbursts and arguably bizarre behavior have made it uncomfortable and
sometimes disruptive for many of his co-workers -- some of whom have voiced
fear in working with or nearby him. In addition he is very difficult to
supervise.<br />
<br />
Malcolm Lassman and I have also discussed this matter, including Gary's work
habits (as well as his habit of putting negative meanings to even trivial
events i.e., "ideas of reference") with two outside consultants and
both concurred that termination was the sound approach to take. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">One outside consultant also cautioned about
the possibility of violence.<br />
</b><br />
Accordingly, on the basis of disruptive work habits, unusual behavior and
discussions with outside consultants, I believe that termination is warranted.
Indeed, to do otherwise may prove to be negligent. I have discussed this with
representatives of the Management Committee and our Administrative Staff and
everyone concurs.<br />
<br />
Gary will be given an additional two weeks severance (a total of four weeks)
not only to cover extra time to look for alternative work but also to help
cover insurance costs which will be borne directly by him upon leaving the
firm.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">-----Original
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From: Gary Freedman <<a href="mailto:garfreed@aim.com"><span style="color: blue;">garfreed@aim.com</span></a>><br />
To: nnichols <<a href="mailto:nnichols@mcclendoncenter.org"><span style="color: blue;">nnichols@mcclendoncenter.org</span></a>><br />
Sent: Thu, Jan 21, 2016 1:39 pm<br />
Subject: psychotherapy -- Dr. Stone<br />
<br />
Ms. Nichols,<br />
<br />
I want to confirm that we spoke about the following issues concerning my
psychiatrist Dr. Stone, today January 21, 2016.<br />
<br />
It is my belief that Dr. Stone falls short of providing appropriate and
effective psychotherapy.<br />
<br />
1. Dr. Stone gives the impression of having intellectual
limitations. She me told the the following anecdote: "Before I went
to medical school people were saying to me, 'You're not smart enough to be a
doctor. You should be a nurse.'" It is my subjective
perception that Dr. Stone is not the intellectual equal of other residents I
have seen. Without intending to brag, I want to report that my overall IQ
was measured at 125 (95th percentile) and my verbal IQ was measured at 136 (99th
percentile). On the School and College Abilities Test (SCAT) my verbal
reasoning was measured at 97th percentile among a pool of gifted
students. The SCAT test is only administered to gifted students. I
find it a strain talking to Dr. Stone.<br />
<br />
2. Dr. Stone's professional demeanor is unprofessional and adverse to the
process of therapy, which involves the disclosure of sensitive material by a
patient. Dr. Stone tells wisecracks and jokes throughout the
session. For example: In late December 2015 I told Dr. Stone that I
had lined up a possible alternative therapist for me in private practice who
happened to be a woman. Dr. Stone responded (knowing that I wanted
a male therapist), "Well, it sounds like -- if she got a sex change
operation she would be the ideal therapist for you."<br />
<br />
Dr. Stone said she told the following wisecrack to a fellow psychiatry
resident, Dr. Youssefi, a Muslim from Iran: "Do you lock your wife in a
room all day?" When I told her that statement was offensive she
said, "He laughed."<br />
<br />
When I was talking to Dr. Stone about being on the Atkins Diet and the issue of
fat metabolism she said, "Oh, it's been so long since I was a real
doctor."<br />
<br />
3. Dr. Stone seems unable to maintain clinical distance and maintain
appropriate professional boundaries. She acts as if she were talking to a
friend -- not a patient:<br />
<br />
She has told me the following personal facts, which no doctor should reveal to
a patient.<br />
<br />
a. Her daughter has autism.<br />
<br />
b. Her mother's birthday is December 20, and her mother gets angry if you
only get her a Christmas present and no birthday present.<br />
<br />
c. Her father has suffered from sleep apnea.<br />
<br />
d. Her mother attended American University and complains about the high
tuition.<br />
<br />
c. Dr. Stone reported her mother is about my age (62): Dr. Stone
said, "My mother says to me, 'Am I going to die soon?'"<br />
<br />
d. Dr. Stone has revealed that she suffers from ADHD<br />
<br />
4. Dr. Stone talks way too much. It's as if she were holding
conversations with me, not doing psychotherapy. She's a chatter box.
This may be a symptom of her ADHD.<br />
<br />
Gary Freedman<br />
202 362 7064 </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Maureen Jais-Mick</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ms. Jais-Mick:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have received psychiatric treatment provided by the D.C. Department of Behavioral Health (DBH) since the year 1996, 20 years. On Monday February 1, 2016, I was advised by Monica Acharya, M.D., attending physician at the K Street Clinic (35 K Street, Washington, DC), that DBH was involuntarily terminating my psychiatric treatment with Alice E. Stone, M.D., a third-year psychiatry resident working under the supervision of Earle Baughman, M.D. (St. Elisabeths Hospital). Dr. Acharya told me that I needed to see an experienced psychiatrist, and that DBH has no experienced psychiatrists who can treat me. Dr. Acharya made no effort to help me locate alternative treatment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am a resident of the District of Columbia; I have been diagnosed with severe (psychotic) mental illness including paranoid schizophrenia. DBH has a legal duty to provide psychiatric treatment. <b>DBH's treatment refusal is a violation of DC law and may also be contrary to applicable federal law.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I need to remind you of troubling aspects of my history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. Dennis M. Race, Esq., (202 887-4028) senior counsel with my former employer, the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, determined, in consultation with a practicing psychiatrist, that I was potentially violent and unemployable. Mr. Race concluded that I posed a direct threat in the workplace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. I have been under federal investigation by the U.S. Secret Service as a potential security risk to former President Bill Clinton.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. I have been under federal investigation by the U.S. Secret Service as a potential security risk to President Obama.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">4. I have been under federal investigation by the U.S. Marshals Service as a potential security risk to U.S. District Court Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle. At the time of the investigation the USMS imposed temporary protective measures against me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. I was advised by the U.S. Capitol Police that my name has been placed on a federal watch list of potentially violent felons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">6. In the year 2004 10 MPDC officers and 4 FBI agents were dispatched to my residence based on concerns that I might become armed and extremely dangerous. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">7. I am completely isolated socially. I have no friends or social contacts of any kind. My only relative is a sister who lives in New Jersey. I rarely see her. I live within walking distance of the federal district in Washington, DC. I suffer from profound loneliness. Psychological testing performed in the year 2014 disclosed that I am "extremely paranoid."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I strongly urge the DC Department of Behavioral Health to locate appropriate psychiatric treatment for me. I am sure several U.S. Congressmen would be interested to learn about DBH's handling of my case.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Gary Freedman</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Washington, DC</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">202 362 7064</span></div>
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I met with Monica Acharya, M.D. this afternoon, February 1, 2016. Dr. Acharya is Dr. Stone's supervisor. Dr. Acharya has advised me that DBH is terminating my work with Dr. Stone and has talked to McClendon about Dr. Steury taking me on as a psychotherapy patient. Dr. Acharya emphasized the fact that I need to see an experienced therapist and the only therapists available from DBH are residents. Apparently DHB is refusing to offer me treatment.</div>
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I have serious concerns about DBH cutting me loose. I have been diagnosed with psychotic mental illness. Two psychiatrists have diagnosed me with paranoid schizophrenia. Also the DC Attorney General affirmed to the D.C. Superior Court and the D.C. Court of Appeals that my former coworkers had genuine and credible fears that I could become armed and extremely dangerous. My former supervisor took precautions against my carrying out a mass homicidal assault on my employer's premises. Do you think I should contact the U.S. Attorney's Office about the refusal of DBH to provide treatment?</div>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>January 15, 2016</span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Apartment 136</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Washington,
DC<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>20008</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Monica
Acharya, M.D.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Mental
Health Clinic </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">35
K Street, NE</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Third
Floor</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Washington,
DC<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>20002</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dear
Dr. Acharya:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
receive weekly out-patient psychotherapy with Alice E. Stone, M.D. at 35 K
Street. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Stone’s technique is
primarily supportive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I require
psychodynamic, insight-oriented therapy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Could you help locate a therapist for me who offers psychodynamic,
insight-oriented therapy?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The attached
letter addressed to Dr. Stone outlines some of my psychological problems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">You
can reach me at telephone number (202) 362-7064.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Thank
you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sincerely,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Gary Freedman </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>December 29, 2015<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW<br />
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</span>Apartment 136<br />
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</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Washington,
DC 20008</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Alice E. Stone, M.D.<br />
Mental Health Clinic<br />
D.C. Department of Behavioral Health<br />
35 K Street, NE<br />
Washington, DC 20002</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>RE: Note
Regarding the Idealizing Transference</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Dear Dr. Stone:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">I have formed an idealizing
transference with my primary care doctor that complements my negative transference to you. An examination of my
psychological background reveals that my transference reactions to my primary care doctor and
you, respectively, appear to be a derivative of my childhood experiences and my
early psychological relations with my parents.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">I have isolated out of my
life history all of the relationships, events, and experiences that can give rise
to intense primitive idealization in adulthood. We are left with the following
summary:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">1. Pre-Oedipal:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">a. Subject experienced his
mother as engulfing. Subject experienced his father as distant and
disappointing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">b. Subject experienced
physical trauma in early childhood. His father beat him as an infant and in
early childhood. He suffered a serious injury to the oral cavity at age
two-and-one-half. Mother negligently failed to protect subject against these
traumas (see 3, below).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2. Oedipal:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Subject directed intense
destructive (aggressive) impulses against his parents during the Oedipal stage.
Subject hated his parents.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">3. Latency:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Mother negligently failed to
protect subject against narcissistic aggression by family members. (see 1(b)
above).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Subject experienced
functional libidinal object loss in latency.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">4. Adulthood:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Subject is defiant and
oppositional.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Subject struggles with the
effects of pathological mourning.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Theoretical Implications</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Pre-Oedipal:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">a. Relationship with
Engulfing Mother and Distant Father</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Subject’s object hunger, his
idealizing merger needs are fixations on archaic pre-oedipal forms deriving
from deficits emerging out of his relationship with an engulfing mother who
used subject for her own selfobject needs and in his frustrating relationship
with a father unavailable for idealization. Cowan, J. “Blutbruderschaft and
Self Psychology in D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love in Self and Sexuality” (2002).
Subject’s idealization of males is a defense against being swallowed up by a
woman. See Shengold, L. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Soul Murder: The
Effects of Childhood Deprivation and Abuse</i> (see especially the chapter,
“The Parent as Sphinx”). Subject’s psychology parallels Kohut’s analysand Mr. U
who, turning away from the unreliable empathy of his mother, tried to gain confirmation
of his self through an idealizing relationship with his father. The self
absorbed father, however, unable to respond appropriately, rebuffed his son’s
attempt to be close to him, depriving him of the needed merger with the
idealized self-object and, hence, of the opportunity for gradually recognizing
the self-object’s shortcomings. Cowan, Self and Sexuality at 59 quoting Kohut,
H. In adulthood, subject views certain males as perfect, without any
shortcomings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Subject’s failure to resolve
the dyadic father idealization that emerged at the earliest stages of
development has had significant, even profound, reverberations in subject’s
adult life. Subject’s dyadic father attachment was never subjected to a
sufficient or lasting resolution during his adolescence, namely, at that period
in life when the final step in the resolution of the male father complex is
normally transacted. Blos, P. “Freud and the Father Complex.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child</i>
Vol. 37: 425-441 at 434 (1987).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Emotional reverberations of
the subject’s unresolved father attachment in the subject’s adult life can be
seen in his idealization of certain male figures. Blos at 434-35. Subject’s
father idealization suffered a catastrophic shock at his father’s death, Blos
at 436, when subject was 23 years old; subject succumbed to severe depression
and ultimately attempted suicide 16 months later.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Subject’s unresolved father
attachment is probably related to his fears of maternal engulfment and
misogyny. The role or function of the early father is that of a rescuer or
savior at the time when the small child normally makes his determined effort to
gain independence from the first and exclusive caretaking person, the mother.
Blos at 428-29. Subject’s continuing need for the protecting presence of the
father is a residual effect of both his failure to resolve his early father
idealization as well as fantasied and objective dangers emanating from
aggressive female objects (and a disturbed male) in the subject’s developmental
environment.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">1. Pre-Oedipal</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">b. Trauma (Beatings and
Physical Injury)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Subject suffered a physical
trauma (an accidental injury in the oral cavity) in childhood (aged 2.5) as
well as childhood beatings; theses traumas and their aftermath may have led to
an ego attitude of justified rebellion in subject and a distortion in
ego-superego interaction that interfered with normal superego maturation. The
tendency to massive superego externalization, normal in early latency, may
never have been outgrown and may have resulted in a character disturbance in
subject termed by Freud, “the exceptions.” Fernando, J. “The Exceptions:
Structural and Dynamic Aspects.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Psychoanalytic Study of the Child.</i> Vol. 52: 17-28 (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1997).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">These traumas and their
aftermath may have led to a lifelong fate neurosis (repetition compulsion)
whereby subject has a tendency to repeat the feelings and reactions of his
trauma (including the parents’ attempts to evade their own guilty feelings
about the accident by blaming subject), which feelings and reactions may have
become structured into a portion of subject’s superego. Fernando at 20.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Subject displays two
attitudes–submission and rebellion–toward his fate and toward that portion of
his superego into which the strictures of this fate became structured. The
circumstances of the accident and the double attitude subject developed because
of them are important factors in subject’s ego disturbance. Fernando at 21.
Subject has become a victim of fate, destined to have his excited, rising hopes
dashed by one circumstance or another. It is at the point where he feels
himself badly mistreated by the fate that had crushed his hopes that he assumes
the character of an “exception,” until his hopes begin to rise again and he
enters the next phase of the cycle. Fernando at 22.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Subject’s development
foundered on his inability to accomplish one of the major tasks of late
adolescence: the integration of previously unresolved traumas into the
character structure, or what Blos calls the “characterological stabilization of
residual trauma.” Fernando at 22.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Subject’s superego–or, more
correctly, that portion of it into which the demands and treatment of his
unfair fate became internalized–did not undergo the usual progressive
neutralization of its energies, integration into the personality, and
distancing from its origins. Fernando at 23. The relative lack of superego
maturation and integration in the subject affects the ego ideal and its integration
into the personality as a substructure within the superego system, a process
that normally takes place definitively in late adolescence. Fernando at 24. As
a consequence subject finds it impossible to relinquish his attachment to the
idealized images of his parents and instead attempts to recapture his ideals in
concrete form in idealized surrogates, or parental derivatives. Fernando at 24.
Subject’s social interests may be largely limited to such persons. Fernando at
18.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">cf. Blum, Harold P.,
“Picasso’s Prolonged Adolescence, Blue Period, and Blind Figures.” The
Psychoanalytic Review: Vol. 100, No. 2, pp. 267-287 (2013) (trauma in Picasso’s
childhood had reverberations in later life).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">2. Oedipal Stage</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">A common daydream which in
spite of its frequency has received very little attention to-date is the
fantasy of possessing a twin. It is a conscious fantasy, built up in the
latency period as the result of disappointment by the parents — and retaliatory
destructive impulses directed by the child in fantasy against the parents — in
the oedipus situation, in the child’s search for a partner who will give him
all the attention, love and companionship he desires and who will provide an
escape from loneliness and solitude. The same emotional conditions are the basis
of the family romance. In that well-known daydream the child in the latency
period develops fantasies of having a better, kinder and worthier family than
his own, which has so bitterly disappointed and disillusioned him. The parents
have been unable to gratify the child’s instinctual wishes; in disappointment
his love turns to hate; he now despises his family and, in revenge, turns
against it. He has death-wishes against the former love-objects, and as a
result feels alone and forsaken in the world. Burlingham, D.T. “The Fantasy of
Having a Twin<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. </i>Vol.
1 at 205 (1945). A further element in many daydreams of having a twin is that
of the imaginary twin being a complement to the daydreamer. The latter endows
his twin with all the qualities and talents that he misses in himself and
desires for himself. The twin thus represents his superego. Id. at 209. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">See also, Coen, S.J.,
Bradlow, P.A. “Twin Transference as a Compromise Formation.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">J. Am. Psychoanal. Assoc</i>., 30(3): 599-620
(1982). Twin transference, together with all twin fantasies, subserves multiple
functions, including gratification and defense against the dangers of intense
object need. In this formulation, the twinlike representation of the object
provides the illusion of influence or control over the object by the pretense
of being able to impersonate or transform oneself into the object and the
object into the self. Intense object need persists together with a partial
narcissistic defense against full acknowledgment of the object by representing
the sought-after object as combining aspects of self and other.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">3. Latency</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Subject experienced an
abrupt, defensive internalization of the maternal object in response to her
negligent failure to protect him against the narcissistic aggression of family
members.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">In cases in which
internalization of the ambivalently-cathected maternal object (that embodies
the combined functions of negative sanction and endowing approval) occurs
abruptly and prematurely, without adequate neutralization of ego-ideal and
superego precursor, shame and castration anxiety do not become integrated into
a smoothly operating unconscious guilt mechanism. Pathological guilt, shame and
castration anxiety together with a tendency to intense primitive idealization
will be seen in pathological manifestations. Freeman, D.M.A., Foulks, E.F., and
Freeman, P.A. “Superego Development and Psychopathology.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Psychoanalytic Study of Society,</i> vol. 7 at 121 (1976) (Gertrude
R. Ticho, M.D., contributing editor).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Subject experienced
functional libidinal object loss in latency, that is, his premature and abrupt
internalization of the ambivalently-cathected maternal object. Subject’s
idealization of my primary care doctor can be seen as a manic defense against destructive
impulses. The idealization may be related to the idealization (and splitting)
seen in mourners, where the deceased is seen as all-good (manic denial by the
mourner of destructive impulses) and the mourner depicts himself as unworthy to
have been associated with the deceased. “She was too good for me.” In mourning,
according to Melanie Klein, the mourner is provided with the opportunity of
splitting the destroyed part of the loved object from the loved part, of
burying the destroyed bad objects and impulses, and of protecting the good
loved part as an eternal memory. See Jaques, E. “On the Dynamics of Social
Structure: A Contribution to the Psychoanalytical Study of Social Phenomena
Deriving from the Views of Melanie Klein.” The manic subject tends to downplay
the power of the object, to disdain it, while at the same time maintaining
maximum control over objects. Manic defenses are typified by three feelings,
namely control, triumph, contempt. Klein, Melanie. (1940). “Mourning and its
relation to manic-depressive states.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">International
Journal of Psychoanalysis</i>, 21 : 125-153. In the suspended animation aspect
of manic defense, omnipotent control of the bad internal objects stops all
truly good relationships. The individual feels dead inside and the world
appears still and colorless. Manic defense involves the reversal of depressive
feelings. The use of manic defense is typical of individuals who dread sadness
and are unable to mourn. Manic defense is a frequent maneuver against pain and
suffering associated with object loss (real or functional). Akhtar, S. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Three Faces of Mourning: Melancholia,
Manic Defense and Moving On.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">4. Adulthood — Oppositional,
Defiant and Rebellious Behavior (see also 1(b) above (Preoedipal trauma giving
rise to rebellion).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">The rivalry feelings of
subject with his father (and father derivatives), the expressions of
competition, oppositionalism, and defiance, in action and thought, which are
directed against the father (or father derivatives), have to be largely
comprehended as the result of an incomplete detachment from the early father
and his protective presence in the subject’s life–a presence either actual,
construed, or wished for. Blos at 426.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Subject’s defiant behavior
(toward father derivatives) is a cognate of his idealization (of certain male
figures):</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Subject had a statistically
significant score on MMPI Scale 4 — the Psychopathic Deviate Scale.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">In the workplace subject has
experienced workplace mobbing in basic assumptions groups. Research shows that
basic assumptions groups target as scapegoats persons who harbor intense
aggressive impulses against groups. Hafsi, Mohamed. “Experimental Inquiry into
the Psychodynamics of the Relationship between the Group’s Dominant Basic
Assumption Type and Scapegoating Phenomenon<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.”
Psychologica: An International Journal of Psychology in the Orient </i>vol. 41,
no. 4 (December 1998): 272-84. 1/</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Compare 2 above: subject
harbored intense destructive impulses against his parents during the Oedipal
period.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">So we see that my feelings
about my primary care doctor are a condensation of a host of life experiences that give rise
to idealization.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Subject’s idealization of his primary care doctor does not simply reflect his loneliness and isolation, but is a symptom of
a severe narcissistic defect, a defect of self.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Sincerely,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Gary Freedman</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">_________________________________</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">1/ Hafsi, M. “Experimental
Inquiry into the Psychodynamics of the Relationship between the Group’s
Dominant Basic Assumption Type and Scapegoating Phenomenon.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">The present study constitutes
an attempt to investigate experimentally the conditions leading to the
phenomenon of scapegoating. Applying Bion’s concepts of “basic assumptions”,
and “valency”, it was hypothesized that 1) scapegoating was more likely to
occur in groups characterized by the valency constitution of fight as defined
and measured in the present study, 2) that the scapegoated members display a
negative attitude towards the group that predispose them to the scapegoat role.
Based on their valencies as measured by the Reaction to Group Situation Test
Nara University (RGST-Nu), the subjects (N=100) were divided into 20
homogeneous (having a same valency) groups of 5 members each. There were thus 4
“fight” groups, 4 “pairing” groups, 4 “flight” groups, 4 “dependency” groups,
and 4 cooperation tendency groups (groups characterized by work group). The
results supported the first hypothesis that fight groups were more likely to
resort to scapegoating than other groups. Moreover, the results revealed also
that, as hypothesized, the scapegoated member displayed in fact the most
negative attitude towards the group.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">The prime polarity in regard
to one’s orientation to a group is alienation versus belonging. One is either a
member of a group (belonging) or an outsider (alienation). The corresponding
anxieties are a fear of alienation (the fear of being an outsider) versus
anxieties attached to belonging, specifically with regard to the need to
subvert one’s individuality (de-differentiation). Alford, C.F. Group Psychology
and Political Theory.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Most people want to belong.
Most people fear alienation. Far more rare is the individual who fears losing
his individuality, who is anxious about belonging because he doesn’t want to
pay the price of admission — loss of personal identity (de-differentiation) and
the assumption of a group identity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Subject experiences little
anxiety about being alienated but experiences intense fear of loss of
individuality.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Subject’s idealization of his primary care doctor, a mirror-image object, expresses his need to preserve his individuality.
He craves a connection to people who will not require that he give up his
identity. Emotional investment in like-minded people preserves his
individuality.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">Subject’s difficulties in the
workplace grow out of his anxieties in relation to belonging to a group whose
values differ from his own. And since he doesn’t fear alienation, he doesn’t
feel he is losing anything by not belonging. But the cost is assuming the
outsider role which can include being subjected to group aggression.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">One of the functions of
groups is to divert aggression away from group members onto outsiders. Subject
assumes the role of the outsider. He is a prime candidate to be a victim of job
harassment. Subject’s victimization in a group setting is insidiously and
inevitably related to his need for mirror image objects (like his primary care doctor) that
allow him to preserve his individuality and avoid de-differentiation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Tanya
A. Royster, M.D.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Director</span></div>
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Department of Behavioral Health</span></div>
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New York Avenue, NE</span></div>
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Floor</span></div>
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DC<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>20002</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dear
Dr. Royster:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
am a consumer of mental health services provided by the D.C. Department of
Behavioral Health (DBH).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I receive supportive
psychotherapy and medical management provided by Alice E. Stone, M.D., a third
year psychiatry resident at 35 K Street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dr. Stone works under the supervision of Earle Baughman, M.D. (St.
Elisabeths Hospital).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
am deeply concerned about the failure of DBH to provide appropriate
psychotherapy for me, which would be psychodynamic, insight oriented
therapy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Supportive psychotherapy is
inadequate for my needs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
need to remind the DBH that the D.C. Office of Attorney General and others have
grave concerns about my case and my potential for violence, including the potential
for armed mass homicide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">1.
The D.C. Office of Attorney General affirmed as genuine and credible a
psychiatric opinion offered to my former employer, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer
& Feld (Dennis M. Race, Esq.) (1991) that concluded that I suffered from
severe mental illness that rendered me unsuitable for employment and a direct
threat in the workplace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The employer
in a sworn statement stated that it feared, based on said psychiatric opinion,
that allowing me to remain on the firm’s premises posed a negligence risk to
the firm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(The psychiatrist in question,
Gertrude R. Ticho, M.D. (deceased) denied ever having offered said opinion to
the employer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See letter to William J.
Earl, Esq. dated March 19, 1996 (enclosed)).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The D.C. Court of Appeals did not find that
my former supervisor’s published fear (1991) that I might commit a mass homicidal
assault on the firm’s premises and her act of securing her office against such
an assault was motivated by discriminatory animus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See Record at 41, Freedman v. D.C. Dept.
Human Rights, D.C.C.A. no. 96-CV-961 (Sept. 1, 1998).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The D.C. Office of Attorney General found
that my coworkers’ fears that I might become armed and extremely dangerous in August 1989 (two years before my job termination) were genuine and credible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The AG concluded that my coworkers had genuine and credible fears that I
might “buy a gun, bring it in, and shoot everybody.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See Brief of D.C. Office of Corporation
Counsel at 8 citing Record at 276, Freedman v. D.C. Dept. Human Rights,
D.C.C.A. no. 96-CV-961 (Sept. 1, 1998).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On October 12, 2004 the MPDC dispatched 10
police officers and four FBI agents to my residence to escort me to D.C.
General Hospital for an emergency forensic psychiatric examination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The MPDC feared that I might become armed and
extremely dangerous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">I
urge the DBH to heed the concerns of the D.C. Attorney General and the MPDC and
provide the psychodynamic psychotherapy that I require.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Thank
you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span></span>Sincerely,</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span></span>Gary Freedman</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> cc:
DC AG (Karl A. Racine); USDOJ (Leslie R. Caldwell) </span></span>
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</span>December 18, 2015<br />
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</span>3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW<br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apt. 136<br />
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</span>Washington, DC 20008<br />
<br />
The Honorable Karl A. Racine<br />
Office of the Attorney General<br />
Government of the District of Columbia<br />
Judiciary Square<br />
441 4th Street, NW<br />
Washington, DC 20001<br />
Phone: (202) 727-3400<br />
Fax: (202) 347-8922<br />
<br /><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>RE: Admission of Possible Felony
Fraud<br />
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Dear Mr. Racine: <br />
<br />
This will advise the D.C. Office of Attorney General that on the afternoon of
December 14, 2015 I had a psychiatric consultation with Alice E. Stone, M.D., a
psychiatry resident affiliated with St. Elizabeths Hospital working under the
supervision of Earl Baughman, M.D. There is evidence that said
psychiatric consultation, whose cost is billed to DC Medicaid and Medicare, was
medically questionable or fraudulent. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There is ample and persuasive evidence that I
do not suffer from severe (psychotic) mental illness, diagnosed as paranoid
schizophrenia by Dimitrios Georgopoulos, M.D. (1996) and Albert H. Taub, M.D.
(1999) (St. Elizabeths Hospital) and that the D.C. Department of Behavioral
Health is therefore billing D.C. Medicaid and Medicare for the treatment of
nonexistent mental illness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But see Freedman v. D.C. Dept. Human Rights</i>,
D.C.C.A. no. 96-CV-961 (Sept. 1, 1998) (my employer, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer
& Feld, had genuine and credible reasons to determine that I was
unemployable because I suffered from a psychiatric “disorder” that rendered me
a direct threat in the workplace based on a (medically-worthless) psychiatric
opinion offered by a consulting psychiatrist).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My psychiatric treatment provided by the D.C.
Department of Behavioral Health for apparently non-existent severe mental
illness raises a possibility that I am fraudulently using said psychiatric
services to bolster a fraudulent Social Security disability claim, which would
constitute a felony. But see Freedman v. D.C. Dept. Human Rights (I became disabled effective October 29, 1991 based on a (medically-worthless) psychiatric opinion solicited by my former employer).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Comprehensive psychological testing performed
by the George Washington University Medical Center Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Science in 1994 and 1996 disclosed that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I do not suffer from any diagnosable mental illness </i>(see attached).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But see
Freedman v. D.C. Dept. Human Rights, </i>D.C.C.A. no. 96-CV-961 (Sept. 1, 1998)
(my employer, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld had genuine and credible
reasons to determine that I was unemployable because I suffered from a
psychiatric “disorder” that rendered me a direct threat in the workplace based
on a (medically-worthless) psychiatric opinion offered by a consulting
psychiatrist).</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I urge the D.C. Attorney General to institute
a fraud investigation into this matter and/or make a criminal referral of this
matter to the FBI.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Sincerely,</span>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Gary Freedman</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">cc: Tanya A. Royster, M.D.; The Honorable Leslie R.
Caldwell</span>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Subject experienced functional libidinal object loss in latency.<br /><br /><br />4. Adulthood:<br /><br /><br />Subject is defiant and oppositional.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Subject struggles with the effects of pathological mourning.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Theoretical Implications<br /><br /> Pre-Oedipal:<br /><br />a. Relationship with Engulfing Mother and Distant Father<br /><br /><br />Subject’s object hunger, his idealizing merger needs are fixations on archaic pre-oedipal forms deriving from deficits emerging out of his relationship with an engulfing mother who used subject for her own selfobject needs and in his frustrating relationship with a father unavailable for idealization. Cowan, J. Blutbruderschaft and Self Psychology in D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love in Self and Sexuality (2002). Subject’s idealization of males is a defense against being swallowed up by a woman. See Shengold, L. Soul Murder: The Effects of Childhood Deprivation and Abuse (see especially the chapter, “The Parent as Sphinx”). Subject’s psychology parallels Kohut’s analysand Mr. U who, turning away from the unreliable empathy of his mother, tried to gain confirmation of his self through an idealizing relationship with his father. The self absorbed father, however, unable to respond appropriately, rebuffed his son’s attempt to be close to him, depriving him of the needed merger with the idealized self-object and, hence, of the opportunity for gradually recognizing the self-object’s shortcomings. Cowan, Self and Sexuality at 59 quoting Kohut, H. In adulthood, subject views certain males as perfect, without any shortcomings.<br /><br />Subject’s failure to resolve the dyadic father idealization that emerged at the earliest stages of development has had significant, even profound, reverberations in subject’s adult life. Subject’s dyadic father attachment was never subjected to a sufficient or lasting resolution during his adolescence, namely, at that period in life when the final step in the resolution of the male father complex is normally transacted. Blos, P. “Freud and the Father Complex.” The Psychoanalytic Study of Society Vol. 37: 425-441 at 434 (1987).<br /><br /><br />Emotional reverberations of the subject’s unresolved father attachment in the subject’s adult life can be seen in his idealization of certain male figures. Blos at 434-35. Subject’s father idealization suffered a catastrophic shock at his father’s death, Blos at 436, when subject was 23 years old; subject succumbed to severe depression and ultimately attempted suicide 16 months later.<br /><br /><br />Subject’s unresolved father attachment is probably related to his fears of maternal engulfment and misogyny. The role or function of the early father is that of a rescuer or savior at the time when the small child normally makes his determined effort to gain independence from the first and exclusive caretaking person, the mother. Blos at 428-29. Subject’s continuing need for the protecting presence of the father is a residual effect of both his failure to resolve his early father idealization as well as fantasied and objective dangers emanating from aggressive female objects (and a disturbed male) in the subject’s developmental environment.<br /><br /><br />1. Pre-Oedipal<br /><br /><br />b. Trauma (Beatings and Physical Injury)<br /><br /><br />Subject suffered a physical trauma (an accidental injury in the oral cavity) in childhood (aged 2.5) as well as childhood beatings; theses traumas and their aftermath may have led to an ego attitude of justified rebellion in subject and a distortion in ego-superego interaction that interfered with normal superego maturation. The tendency to massive superego externalization, normal in early latency, may never have been outgrown and may have resulted in a character disturbance in subject termed by Freud, “the exceptions.” Fernando, J. “The Exceptions: Structural and Dynamic Aspects.” The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. Vol. 52: 17-28 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997).<br /><br />These traumas and their aftermath may have led to a lifelong fate neurosis (repetition compulsion) whereby subject has a tendency to repeat the feelings and reactions of his trauma (including the parents’ attempts to evade their own guilty feelings about the accident by blaming subject), which feelings and reactions may have become structured into a portion of subject’s superego. Fernando at 20.<br /><br />Subject displays two attitudes–submission and rebellion–toward his fate and toward that portion of his superego into which the strictures of this fate became structured. The circumstances of the accident and the double attitude subject developed because of them are important factors in subject’s ego disturbance. Fernando at 21. Subject has become a victim of fate, destined to have his excited, rising hopes dashed by one circumstance or another. It is at the point where he feels himself badly mistreated by the fate that had crushed his hopes that he assumes the character of an “exception,” until his hopes begin to rise again and he enters the next phase of the cycle. Fernando at 22.<br /><br />Subject’s development foundered on his inability to accomplish one of the major tasks of late adolescence: the integration of previously unresolved traumas into the character structure, or what Blos calls the “characterological stabilization of residual trauma.” Fernando at 22.<br /><br /><br />Subject’s superego–or, more correctly, that portion of it into which the demands and treatment of his unfair fate became internalized–did not undergo the usual progressive neutralization of its energies, integration into the personality, and distancing from its origins. Fernando at 23. The relative lack of superego maturation and integration in the subject affects the ego ideal and its integration into the personality as a substructure within the superego system, a process that normally takes place definitively in late adolescence. Fernando at 24. As a consequence subject finds it impossible to relinquish his attachment to the idealized images of his parents and instead attempts to recapture his ideals in concrete form in idealized surrogates, or parental derivatives. Fernando at 24. Subject’s social interests may be largely limited to such persons. Fernando at 18.<br /><br /><br />cf. Blum, Harold P., “Picasso’s Prolonged Adolescence, Blue Period, and Blind Figures.” The Psychoanalytic Review: Vol. 100, No. 2, pp. 267-287 (2013) (trauma in Picasso’s childhood had reverberations in later life).<br /><br /><br />2. Oedipal Stage<br /><br /><br />A common daydream which in spite of its frequency has received very little attention to-date is the fantasy of possessing a twin. It is a conscious fantasy, built up in the latency period as the result of disappointment by the parents — and retaliatory destructive impulses directed by the child in fantasy against the parents — in the oedipus situation, in the child’s search for a partner who will give him all the attention, love and companionship he desires and who will provide an escape from loneliness and solitude. The same emotional conditions are the basis of the family romance. In that well-known daydream the child in the latency period develops fantasies of having a better, kinder and worthier family than his own, which has so bitterly disappointed and disillusioned him. The parents have been unable to gratify the child’s instinctual wishes; in disappointment his love turns to hate; he now despises his family and, in revenge, turns against it. He has death-wishes against the former love-objects, and as a result feels alone and forsaken in the world. Burlingham, D.T. “The Fantasy of Having a Twin.” In: The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. Vol. 1 at 205 (1945). A further element in many daydreams of having a twin is that of the imaginary twin being a complement to the daydreamer. The latter endows his twin with all the qualities and talents that he misses in himself and desires for himself. The twin thus represents his superego. Id. at 209. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">See also, Coen, S.J., Bradlow, P.A. "Twin Transference as a Compromise Formation." J. Am. Psychoanal. Assoc., 30(3): 599-620 (1982). </span></span>Twin transference, together with all twin fantasies,
subserves multiple functions, including gratification and
defense against the dangers of intense object need. In this formulation,
the twinlike representation of the object provides the illusion of
influence or control over the object by the pretense of being able to
impersonate or transform oneself into the object and the object into the
self. Intense object need persists together with a partial narcissistic
defense against full acknowledgment of the object by representing the
sought-after object as combining aspects of self and other. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br />3. Latency<br /><br /><br />Subject experienced an abrupt, defensive internalization of the maternal object in response to her negligent failure to protect him against the narcissistic aggression of family members.<br /><br /><br />In cases in which internalization of the ambivalently-cathected maternal object (that embodies the combined functions of negative sanction and endowing approval) occurs abruptly and prematurely, without adequate neutralization of ego-ideal and superego precursor, shame and castration anxiety do not become integrated into a smoothly operating unconscious guilt mechanism. Pathological guilt, shame and castration anxiety together with a tendency to intense primitive idealization will be seen in pathological manifestations. Freeman, D.M.A., Foulks, E.F., and Freeman, P.A. “Superego Development and Psychopathology.” The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, vol. 7 at 121 (1976) (Gertrude R. Ticho, M.D., contributing editor).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Subject experienced functional libidinal object loss in latency, that is, his premature and abrupt internalization of the ambivalently-cathected maternal object. Subject's idealization of his primary care doctor can be seen as a manic defense against destructive impulses. </span></span>The idealization may be related to the idealization (and splitting) seen
in mourners, where the deceased is seen as all-good (manic denial by the
mourner of destructive impulses) and the mourner depicts himself as
unworthy to have been associated with the deceased. “She was too good
for me.”<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The manic subject tends to downplay the power of the object, to disdain
it, while at the same time maintaining maximum control over objects.
Manic defenses are typified by three feelings, namely control, triumph,
contempt. </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Klein, Melanie. (1940). Mourning and its relation to manic-depressive states. <i>International Journal of Psychoanalysis</i>, <i>21</i> : 125-153. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />4. Adulthood — Oppositional, Defiant and Rebellious Behavior (see also 1(b) above (Preoedipal trauma giving rise to rebellion).<br /><br /><br />The rivalry feelings of subject with his father (and father derivatives), the expressions of competition, oppositionalism, and defiance, in action and thought, which are directed against the father (or father derivatives), have to be largely comprehended as the result of an incomplete detachment from the early father and his protective presence in the subject’s life–a presence either actual, construed, or wished for. Blos at 426.<br /><br /><br />Subject’s defiant behavior (toward father derivatives) is a cognate of his idealization (of certain male figures):<br /><br /><br />Subject had a statistically significant score on MMPI Scale 4 — the Psychopathic Deviate Scale.<br /><br /><br />In the workplace subject has experienced workplace mobbing in basic assumptions groups. Research shows that basic assumptions groups target as scapegoats persons who harbor intense aggressive impulses against groups. Hafsi, Mohamed. “Experimental Inquiry into the Psychodynamics of the Relationship between the Group’s Dominant Basic Assumption Type and Scapegoating Phenomenon.” Psychologica: An International Journal of Psychology in the Orient vol. 41, no. 4 (December 1998): 272-84. 1/<br /><br /><br />Compare 2 above: subject harbored intense destructive impulses against his parents during the Oedipal period.<br /><br /><br />So we see that my feelings about my primary care doctor are a condensation of a host of life experiences that give rise to idealization.<br /><br /><br />Subject’s idealization of his primary care doctor does not simply reflect his loneliness and isolation, but is a symptom of a severe narcissistic defect, a defect of self.<br /><br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br /><br />Gary Freedman<br /><br /><br />_________________________________<br /><br /><br />1/ Hafsi, M. "Experimental Inquiry into the Psychodynamics of the Relationship between the Group's Dominant Basic Assumption Type and Scapegoating Phenomenon."<br /><br />The present study constitutes an attempt to investigate experimentally the conditions leading to the phenomenon of scapegoating. Applying Bion's concepts of "basic assumptions", and "valency", it was hypothesized that 1) scapegoating was more likely to occur in groups characterized by the valency constitution of fight as defined and measured in the present study, 2) that the scapegoated members display a negative attitude towards the group that predispose them to the scapegoat role. Based on their valencies as measured by the Reaction to Group Situation Test Nara University (RGST-Nu), the subjects (N=100) were divided into 20 homogeneous (having a same valency) groups of 5 members each. There were thus 4 “fight” groups, 4 “pairing” groups, 4 “flight” groups, 4 “dependency” groups, and 4 cooperation tendency groups (groups characterized by work group). The results supported the first hypothesis that fight groups were more likely to resort to scapegoating than other groups. Moreover, the results revealed also that, as hypothesized, the scapegoated member displayed in fact the most negative attitude towards the group.</span></span><br />
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The prime polarity in regard to one’s orientation to a group is
alienation versus belonging. One is either a member of a group
(belonging) or an outsider (alienation). The corresponding anxieties
are a fear of alienation (the fear of being an outsider) versus
anxieties attached to belonging, specifically with regard to the need to
subvert one’s individuality. Alford, C.F. Group Psychology and
Political Theory.<br />
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Most people want to belong. Most people fear alienation. Far more
rare is the individual who fears losing his individuality, who is
anxious about belonging because he doesn’t want to pay the price of
admission — loss of personal identity and the assumption of a group
identity.<br />
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Subject experiences little anxiety about
being alienated but experiences intense fear of loss of
individuality.<br />
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Subject's idealization of his primary care doctor, a mirror-image object,
expresses his need to preserve his individuality. He craves a connection to
people who will not require that he give up his identity. Emotional investment in like-minded people preserves his individuality.<br />
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Subject's difficulties in the workplace grow out of his anxieties in relation
to belonging to a group whose values differ from his own. And since he
don’t fear alienation, he doesn’t feel he is losing anything by not
belonging. But the cost is assuming the outsider role which can include
being subjected to group aggression. <br />
One of the functions of groups is to divert aggression away from
group members onto outsiders. Subject assumes the role of the outsider. He is a a prime
candidate to be a victim of job harassment. Subject's victimization in a group
setting is insidiously and inevitably related to my need for mirror
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1. My former employer determined in October 1991, in consultation with a
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v. D.C. Department of Human Rights, D.C.C.A. no. 96-CV-961 (Memorandum
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 2. My former direct supervisor determined that I might carry out a mass
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1991. The D.C. Court of Appeals declined to find my supervisor's
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> 3. The D.C. Office of Attorney General determined that my coworkers
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homicidal assault on the premises of my former employer in August 1989.
The D.C. Attorney General determined that my coworkers had genuine and
credible fears that I might become armed and extremely dangerous in
August 1989. Brief of Appellee District of Columbia, Freedman v. D.C.
Department of Human Rights, D.C.C.A. no. 96-CV-961 (Memorandum Opinion
and Judgment) (Sept. 1, 1998).
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Apartment 136</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Washington, DC 20008</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tanya A. Royster, M.D.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Director</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">D.C. Department of Behavioral Health</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">64 New York Avenue, NW</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Third Floor</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Washington, DC 20002</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dear Dr. Royster:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="field-content">I
am a consumer of
mental health services provided by the D.C. Department of Behavioral
Health (DBH). I had a weekly out-patient psychotherapy consult with Alice E.
Stone, M.D. on Monday December 7, 2015. Dr. Stone is a third-year psychiatry resident working under the
supervision of Earl Baughman, M.D. (St. Elizabeths Hospital). I have
been a DBH consumer since mid-year 1996, 19 years. Supportive
psychotherapy is inadequate for my needs. I believe I need
psychodynamic
psychotherapy. </span><br />
<span class="field-content"></span><span class="field-content"></span><br />
<span class="field-content">Increasingly
I view my situation as precarious, desperate and futile. The failure of DBH to provide adequate
treatment for me is a terrible strain.</span> <span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /><br />I
have formed an idealizing transference with my primary care doctor,.
Unfortunately, my primary care doctor is not a psychiatrist and psychotherapy with him
is not feasible. I yearn for a psychotherapeutic relationship that
will address my psychological needs.<br />
</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span>If the truth be told I am not suited for the practicalities of life; my
mind floats in otherworldly dreams, more preoccupied with the potential
of the spirit than with everyday vicissitudes. I love language, books,
and music, and the most splendid moments of my uneventful existence have
been the few operas I have attended, or the books I have perused in
isolation from my fellows. I treasure every detail of the times I have
spent in isolation. As I read I imagine every sentence, every page and
every chapter as a mirror of my life, my passions and my afflictions. I
take refuge in this extravagant, romantic atmosphere whenever I feel
weighed down by the vulgarity of life.<br /><br />I am an artist, really. Or
at least I am an individual with an artistic temperament. My moments of
highest joy are those I have spent alone. And that is the triumph and
tragedy of my existence. Despite the gratifications afforded by my
splendid isolation I still long for the Other in my loneliness: the
Other who might complete me. Failing to find that Other I live in
perpetual disillusion and frustration.<br /><br />I am a rebel individualist
divorced from established dogma and institutions, a lonely incorrigible
seeker of new norms. For me life presents itself as a struggle for
individualism; I experience my life at times as humorously petulant and
at other times as a mystically yearning estrangement from the world and
the times. I sometimes feel, in my grandiose moments, that I belong to
the highest and purest spiritual aspirations and labors of our epoch.<br /><br />My
spiritual and emotional struggles can be traced to my alienation from
my family in childhood. The roots of my estrangement from established
institutions and settled norms began in the peculiarities of my early
family life. Like most parents mine were no help with the new problems
of puberty to which no reference was ever made. All they did was take
endless trouble in supporting my hopeless attempts to deny reality and
to continue dwelling in a childhood world that was becoming more and
more unreal. I have no idea whether parents can be of help, and I do not
blame mine. It was my own affair to come to terms with myself and to
find my own way, and like most well-brought up children, I managed
badly. My parents seemed wedded to some vague suggestions of old-world,
Victorian morality with its belief in the inherent sinfulness of man, in
the necessity of breaking the will of the individual, and with its
uncompromising renunciation of all that is of this world. My family was
the first of many social structures which were to rouse the rebel in me.<br /><br />I
was a hypersensitive, imaginative, lively and extremely headstrong
child, and proved to be a constant source of despair and annoyance to my
parents and my teachers. School held as little attraction for me as it
did for any incorrigible. Hardly had the fourth year of high school
begun before I became delinquent and was almost dismissed.<br /><br />College
and law school were meant to end the morbid estheticism into which I
had allowed myself to drift. I hoped thereby to become an established,
respected member of society. This hope was never realized. Except for
the first few years, my law school education did not alleviate my
feeling that life is essentially meaningless, nor could my idyllic
retreat into academia long contain my inherent restlessness. By 1984,
upon completion of my LL.M. program at American University, the life in
the law had lost any meaning at all. It had become quite apparent to me
that I could not be both a creative dreamer and a "solid citizen," a
Phantasiemensch and a Burger, as the Germans would put it.<br /><br />I am
but a gifted misfit. My life has long been restive and discontented. I
am unable to bear a comfortable, established mode of existence for any
period of time. My life is grim and I live in endless mental agony.<br /><br />I
live the life of a romantic vagabond, forever exhausted and distraught
in my quest for solitude. Before life can ever become meaningful for me,
I must find and come to terms with myself. I am forever taking painful
stock of myself and devote myself assiduously to solitary pleasures. I
live like a hermit in my emotional and financial poverty and for years
now, I have rarely left my apartment for more than routine outings.<br /><br />In
1993 I began a writing that was to occupy me for the next ten years.
That writing would be my autobiography, “Significant Moments.” The
writing reflected my relentless quest for my self, and it assumed a
fresh impetus and a new stylistic direction from my restless spirit
during those years. I became an uninhibited and exciting innovator. The
autobiography was really a tense psychological study and reflected the
intoxicating emotional release of a Buddha-like search for the basic
unity and meaningfulness of life. I am sure if it were ever to be
published it would be greeted with a curious mixture of awe,
bewilderment, antagonism, and disgust. My own uninhibited self-exposure
would no doubt trouble even the staunchest of my supporters. I must
remind you that my new literary venture was not an
irresponsible deviation but a necessary culmination in my self-quest. It
has always been my belief that repressions had to be exposed, even at
the price of unpleasant notoriety.<br /><br />The letters I have written to
you<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>are actually an article of faith and not a document of
despair. Yes, I wallow in despair but I live in faith, a faith in the
ultimate meaningfulness of life. For me, life has never become the
perplexing absurdity it was for Franz Kafka or the Sisyphean monotonous
senselessness it was to become for Albert Camus. As I like to say, there
is always tomorrow.<br /><br />I am oppressed by my personal life, but also
by the times we live in. Our era is for me one of moral depravity and
intellectual mediocrity; of surface glitter, smug comfort, sham
conventionality, and foolish optimism. Man has lost his soul in the
world of money, machines and distrust. He has exchanged his spiritual
peace for physical comfort. All vital rapport with God and nature has
been lost, reason has supplanted faith and society has forgotten the
individual. I’m starting to sound like His Holiness, the late Pope John
Paul II!<br /><br />But the fact remains that the middle-class core of our
civilization has never ceased to be the butt of my ire. The bourgeois
represents all that is negative. A stalwart and stodgy nonentity, he is
governed in all his ideals and pursuits solely by the impulse of self-
preservation. He fears individualism, and deliberately sacrifices the
precarious but precious intensities of life for comfort and security. He
is the characterless Philistine who epitomizes mediocrity, cowardice,
compromise, irresponsibility, and servility. He is the strapping,
insensitive, physical specimen who enjoys health and wealth but lacks
all culture. He has a sound appetite but no taste, a good deal of
confidence but no ideals. He possess a surfeit of zeal and diligence but
has no lofty aspirations or worthy goals. It is to him that the world
belongs, while persons like me -- the sensitive <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">worshipers</span> of beauty
and the earnest seekers after truth and the meaning of life -- are
misfits and outcasts.<br /><br />Every day for me is an effort. A seemingly
senseless effort to survive. So much of my day is marked more by
strained effort than by spontaneity, more by futile persistence than by
passion, and more by recollection than by new horizons. I relive the
past day-by-day.<br /><br />There has always been a very close relationship
between the circumstances of my life and my artistic aspirations. Each
represents a different stage in my struggle with myself and with life at
large, and each reflects a correspondingly different phase in both the
substance and the form of my art. My writings are replete with
uncertainty and vague presentiment. I live as a sensitive outsider who
cannot cope directly with my particular problem of existence. I resort
instead to fantasy and withdraw into the realm of beauty there to
indulge in the extremes of late esthetic gratification. My world is one
of perfumed melancholy. It is characterized by exclamatory remarks and
rhetorical questions, by sensuous adjectives and adverbs in languid
cadence.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The form of my autobiography is loose: a random
succession of vignettes and dramatic monologues, held together primarily
by their common spirit of decadent romanticism. A Hoffmanesque fusion
of fantasy and reality, which is both cynical and morbidly intimate.
You, no doubt, would call it the work of a talented beginner whose world
of experience is still too limited, and whose imagination is entranced
by the facile flow of beautiful language. In the absence of discipline
and restraint, I fear that the whole is sacrificed to the part, and what
is meant to be art fails to become more than picturesque patter.<br /><br />In
the last year, in my extreme isolation, my writing has become more
human and less shadowy; inertia and desperation yield to movement and
humor. My prose has achieved a more narrative style, and my language has
become leaner, crisper and more forceful.<br /><br />And yet, despite the
emotional gratifications of my splendid isolation in the past year, I
was forced to face the overwhelming accumulation of tensions. I was
compelled to realize that in my desire to make existence less painful I
had been avoiding a close look at the true nature of my inner discord,
and had blindsided myself to the morally and spiritually impoverished
world around me. In my imagination I left the comfortable fold of the
bourgeois world, which had never afforded me the security I had hoped it
might, and accepted the more difficult existence of an outsider. Did I
have a choice in the matter? In a desperate and determined
effort to find myself, I began systematically to diagnose my inner
conflicts, to go my long-shunned inward path. Only now did I finally
come to grips with the intrinsic problems of human existence -- and of
my place in the human world.<br /><br />In my isolation escape became quest, and in quest my inner problems resolved themselves into the basic <i>malaise humain</i>,
into the tension between the spiritual and the physical. For the past
year I oscillated between these poles, acclaiming first one, then the
other, then neither. I never ceased hoping for a harmonious accord,
though well aware that for me this was impossible. I acclaim spirit,
stressing self-knowledge and self realization with a Nietzschean
emphasis upon the superior being. But spirit as a guiding principle of
life can only mean greater individuation and more painful isolation. I
still lack the firm conviction and the inner fortitude necessary to
endure these consequences. The immediate reaction has been as extreme as
the initial impulse. My assertive Nietzschean activism has yielded
suddenly to a Schopenhauer-like passivity, a restless quest to a
quietistic acceptance, and self-realization to a yearning for
self-obliteration.<br /><br />In the sober tone of acceptance which is
evident in the present letter, I realize that despite all efforts to the
contrary, my existence will probably continue as a restless tension, a
constant oscillation between life's opposing poles.<br /><br />My path to myself has reached its climax in a fascinating confusion of symbol and irony, fantasy and realism.<br /><br />It
is only now that I at last have found the peace of sincere
self-affirmation and life affirmation. The individual must take and
continue along that path which the predominant aspect of his nature
impels him to choose. Each, whether given to the senses or to the
spirit, must be prepared to suffer the lot of his kind; to attempt in
curiosity or desperation to do otherwise is to foster a perpetual
dissension of the divided self.<br /><br />My center is the individual,
opposed to society, its mores, and its institutions. And that individual
is myself. I recall, nostalgically, the simpler years of childhood. I
re-experience youth with its excruciating years of awakening. I think
about modern man, the intellectual and the artist in particular, within
the framework of a declining culture.<br /><br />It is in this, its
intimately egocentric nature, that my artistic temperament bears the
stamp of its age, an age of cultural decline, of spiritual and moral
distress, and of extreme loneliness.<br /><br />I am predominantly an
esthete who lives only in dreams, hopes, and anticipation, and who
shrinks before realization. I am a self-preoccupied, temperamental
artist who vainly seeks a kindred soul. I am paralyzed by chronic
indecision and indulge in romantic morbidity. I am an outsider consumed
by my own hopelessness and loneliness -- a misfit, to whom the art of
life and the art of love are foreign, a timid soul who asks too little
of life and expects too much of it. I live in perpetual frustration and
disillusionment.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sincerely,<br /><br />Gary Freedman</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">cc: The Honorable Loretta E. Lynch; <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Hon<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">orable Karl A. Racine</span></span> </span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><!-- Start of StatCounter Code -->
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U.S. Department of the Treasury on December 3, 2015 made a wire
transfer of $1407 to my bank account per my claim of disability paid by
the U.S. Social Security Administration based in large part on the
determination of the Office of Attorney General that I became disabled, a
direct threat in the workplace and not suitable for employment
effective October 29, 1991. See Freedman v. D.C. Dept. Human Rights,
D.C.C.A. no. 96-CV-961 <span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376762810697_3904" style="color: black;">(Memorandum Opinion and Judgment, Sept. 1, 1998) ("the [employer]. . .
learned [upon consulting a practicing psychiatrist] that [Mr.
Freedman's] behavior was indicative of a disorder known as 'ideas of
reference,' which is sometimes accompanied by violent behavior.').<span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376762810697_3908" style="color: black;"><span id="yui_3_7_2_1_1376762810697_3907">
<br /><br />There is ample evidence that I do not suffer from severe (psychotic) mental illness.<br /><br />There
is a possibility that my claim for disability benefits is fraudulent
and that I committed a felony on December 3, 2015. There is a possibly
that I have been engaged over the past twenty-four years in a scheme to
defraud the federal government of up to a half million dollars in public monies.<br /><br />Let me make it perfectly clear what I have not done.<br /><br />1.
On no occasion did I fabricate evidence of severe (psychotic) mental
illness as did Dimitrios Georgopolous, M.D. (in February 1996) and
Albert H. Taub, M.D. (in February 1999). Both doctors diagnosed me with
paranoid schizophrenia despite persuasive evidence that I did not suffer from psychotic mental illness.<br /><br />2. On no occasion did I file evidence of a medically-worthless
psychiatric opinion with a state human rights agency alleging that I
suffered from a psychiatric "disorder" that rendered me unemployable and
a direct threat in the workplace as did Dennis M. Race, Esq. and
Laurence J. Hoffman, Esq. of the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer
& Feld, my former employer.<br /><br />3. On no occasion did I file
pleadings with the D.C. Superior Court or the D.C. Court of Appeals, as did the <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Office of D<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.C. Atto<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rne<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">y General, </span></span></span></span>
stating that my coworkers had formed a genuine and credible fear that I
might become armed and extremely dangerous, thereby tending to establish
that I posed a direct threat in the workplace and tending to establish
that a prospective employer might justifiably invoke the "direct threat"
exemption of the Americans with Disabilities Act to deny me
employment. See Brief of District of Columbia, Freedman v. D.C. Dept
Human Rights, D.C.C.A. no. 96-CV-961 (Sept. 1, 1998) (citing as evidence
of genuine and credible coworker fears of direct threat the malicious
and defamatory statement of a coworker: "We're all afraid of you. We're
all afraid you're going to buy a gun, bring it in and shoot
everybody").<br /><br />4. On no occasion did I acquiesce in the filing
under oath of a medically-worthless psychiatric opinion tending to show
that my employer had a genuine and credible fear that I suffered from a
psychiatric disorder that rendered me unemployable and a direct threat
in the workplace as did Margie A. Utley, Esq., former Director of the
D.C. Department of Human Rights, an individual later disbarred by the
District of Columbia and the State of Georgia for engaging in acts involving moral turpitude.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Gary Freedman</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><!-- Start of StatCounter Code -->
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="field-content"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">64 New York Avenue, NE<br />3rd Floor<br />Washington, DC 20002 </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="field-content"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dear Dr. Royster:<br /><br />I am a consumer of
mental health services provided by the D.C. Department of Behavioral
Health (DBH). I receive weekly out-patient psychotherapy from Alice E.
Stone, M.D., a third-year psychiatry resident working under the
supervision of Earl Baughman, M.D. (St. Elizabeths Hospital). I have
been a DBH consumer since mid-year 1996, 19 years. Supportive psychotherapy is inadequate for my needs. I believe I need psychodynamic
psychotherapy. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="field-content"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span class="field-content"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In wrongful termination litigation from the year 1993 I made an admission against interest that I require intensive psychodynamic psychotherapy, preferably with a psychoanalytically-trained therapist like Stanley R. Palombo, M.D. The District Government did not dispute my admission. See Freedman v. D.C. Dept. Human Rights, D.C.C.A no. 96-CV-961 (Sept. 1, 1998), record on appeal at 499-500 (enclosed).</span></span></span><br />
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<![endif]--><span class="field-content"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Increasingly
I view my situation as precarious, desperate and futile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The failure of DBH to provide adequate
treatment for me is a terrible strain.</span></span>
<span class="field-content"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The District Government admits that my case is extremely serious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See Letter dated July 30, 2015 from Gary
Freedman to Barbara J. Bazron (enclosed).</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="field-content"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sincerely,<br /><br />Gary Freedman</span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><!-- Start of StatCounter Code -->
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<br /></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dear Dr. Royster:<br /><br />I am a consumer of
mental health services provided by the D.C. Department of Behavioral
Health (DBH). I receive weekly out-patient psychotherapy from Alice E.
Stone, M.D., a third-year psychiatry resident working under the
supervision of Earl Baughman, M.D. (St. Elizabeths Hospital). I have
been a DBH consumer since mid-year 1996, 19 years. I do not derive
benefit from supportive psychotherapy. I believe I need psychodynamic
psychotherapy. Is there something that DBH could do to help me obtain
psychodynamic psychotherapy?<br /><br />I enclose for your information a psychological profile that details my personality problems as I see them.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Gary Freedman</span></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><!-- Start of StatCounter Code -->
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3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW<br />
Apt. 136<br />
Washington, DC 20008<br />
<br />
The Honorable Karl A. Racine<br />
Office of the Attorney General<br />
Government of the District of Columbia<br />
Judiciary Square<br />
441 4th Street, NW<br />
Washington, DC 20001<br />
Phone: (202) 727-3400<br />
Fax: (202) 347-8922<br />
<br />
RE: Current Psychiatric Treatment<br />
<br />
Dear Mr. Racine: <br />
<br />
This will advise the Office of Attorney General that on the afternoon of November 9, 2015 I had a psychiatric consultation with Alice E. Stone, M.D., a psychiatry
resident affiliated
with St. Elizabeths Hospital working under the supervision of Earl
Baughman, M.D. There is evidence that said psychiatric consultation, whose cost is billed to DC Medicaid and Medicare, was medically questionable or fraudulent. <br /><br />I
receive weekly psychotherapy provided by the D.C. Department of
Behavioral Health consistent with a determination made by the D.C.
Department of Human Rights that effective October 29, 1991, my former
employer, the D.C. law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld had
genuine and credible reasons to conclude that I required counseling for a
paranoid "disorder" that might be associated with a risk of violent
conduct. See Initial Determination, D.C. Department of Human Rights
(DOHR), Freedman v. Akin Gump Hauer & Feld, </span><span style="color: black;">Docket No.: 92-087-P(N) (June 30, 1993) ("</span><span style="color: black;">Respondent also consulted mental health professionals who advised that Complainant did in fact need counseling and <em>may</em> exhibit violent behavior"); See also, DOHR Final Determination (September 24, 1993) ("</span><span style="color: black;">That concern coupled with the advice of mental health professionals that
Complainant needed counseling and that according to one professional
could engage in violent behavior, was sufficient grounds for
Respondent’s action to terminate Complainant.").<br /><br />
I was administered
psychological testing by The George Washington University Medical Center
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science in 1994 and in 1996.
The testing failed to disclose that I suffer from any diagnosable mental
illness. I achieved a perfect score on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test
(6 errors) in 1996, which virtually rules out schizophrenia and
delusional disorder. See Ibanez-Casas, I. "Deficits in Executive and
Memory Processes in Delusional Disorder: A Case-Controlled Study." PLoS
One, 2013 Jul 2;8(7):e67341.<br />
<br />
I have been diagnosed with psychotic mental illness -- Paranoid
(Delusional) Disorder (consistent with the prior findings of DOHR) -- and receive monthly disability benefits paid by
the U.S. Social Security Administration therefor. There is evidence that
the only reason I qualify for disability benefits is that I believe I
have been the victim of a longstanding criminal conspiracy carried out
by attorney managers of the D.C. law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer
& Feld, my former employer. There is evidence that St. Elizabeths
Hospital is billing D.C. Medicaid and Medicare for the treatment of nonexistent mental
illness. <i>But see, Freedman v. D.C. Department of Human Rights, </i>D.C.C.A
96-CV-961 (Sept. 1, 1998) (Akin Gump had genuine and credible reasons
to determine that I suffered from mental illness that rendered me
unemployable and a direct threat in the workplace). </span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">In fact, Akin Gump's disability determination
was based on a medically worthless psychiatric opinion, offered by a
psychiatrist who did not examine me personally and who did not obtain my
written consent for the opinion. See American Psychiatric Association (APA)
Goldwater Rule, Section 7.3 of the <span>APA's</span>
ethics principles.<span> </span></span>As of the filing of
the complaint in the Superior Court proceedings (cited above), in October 1995,
and at all times thereafter, it was unlawful under the laws of the District of
Columbia for a psychiatrist to offer a professional psychiatric opinion about
an individual without benefit of personal examination per APA Section 7.3.<span> </span>The D.C. Code in its latest revision makes it
unlawful for a physician to "[fail] to conform to standards of acceptable
conduct and prevailing practice within a health profession." See D.C. Code
2-3305.14(26). This provision was added to the District of Columbia Health
Occupations Revision Act by D.C. Law 10-247, enacted on March 23, 1995. The
Court of Appeals in <i>Freedman v. DHR</i> expressly
found that the professional psychiatric opinion offered by the psychiatrist to
the employer amounted to the diagnosis of a "disorder." See No.
96-CV-961 at 4.<span> </span>Under current District
law the actions of my former employer, Akin Gump in soliciting an illegal act by
a psychiatrist might be deemed prosecutable as conspiracy and solicitation.<span> </span></span></span>
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Gary Freedman<br />
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3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW<br />
Apt. 136<br />
Washington, DC 20008<br />
<br />
The Honorable Karl A. Racine<br />
Office of the Attorney General<br />
Government of the District of Columbia<br />
Judiciary Square<br />
441 4th Street, NW<br />
Washington, DC 20001<br />
Phone: (202) 727-3400<br />
Fax: (202) 347-8922<br />
<br />
RE: <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Current Psychiatric Treatment</span><br />
<br />
Dear Mr. Racine: <br />
<br />
This will advise the Office of Attorney General that I am currently in weekly out-patient psychotherapy with Alice E. Stone, M.D., a psychiatry resident affiliated
with St. Elizabeths Hospital working under the supervision of Earl
Baughman, M.D. <br />
<br />
I was administered
psychological testing by The George Washington University Medical Center
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science in 1994 and in 1996.
The testing failed to disclose that I suffer from any diagnosable mental
illness. I achieved a perfect score on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test
(6 errors) in 1996, which virtually rules out schizophrenia and
delusional disorder. See Ibanez-Casas, I. "Deficits in Executive and
Memory Processes in Delusional Disorder: A Case-Controlled Study." PLoS
One, 2013 Jul 2;8(7):e67341.<br />
<br />
I have been diagnosed with psychotic mental illness -- Paranoid
(Delusional) Disorder -- and receive monthly disability benefits paid by
the U.S. Social Security Administration therefor. The cost of
psychiatric treatment is reimbursed by Medicare. There is evidence that
the only reason I qualify for disability benefits is that I believe I
have been the victim of a longstanding criminal conspiracy carried out
by attorney managers of the D.C. law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer
& Feld, my former employer. There is evidence that St. Elizabeths
Hospital is billing Medicare for the treatment of nonexistent mental
illness. <i>But see, Freedman v. D.C. Department of Human Rights, </i>D.C.C.A
96-CV-961 (Sept. 1, 1998) (Akin Gump had genuine and credible reasons
to determine that I suffered from mental illness that rendered me
unemployable and a direct threat in the workplace). </span></span><br />
<br />
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<![endif]--><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In fact, Akin Gump's disability determination
was based on a medically worthless psychiatric opinion, offered by a
psychiatrist who did not examine me personally and who did not obtain my
written consent for the opinion. See American Psychiatric Association (APA)
Goldwater Rule, Section 7.3 of the <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">APA's</span>
ethics principles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">As of the filing of
the complaint in the Superior Court proceedings (cited above), in October 1995,
and at all times thereafter, it was unlawful under the laws of the District of
Columbia for a psychiatrist to offer a professional psychiatric opinion about
an individual without benefit of personal examination per APA Section 7.3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The D.C. Code in its latest revision makes it
unlawful for a physician to "[fail] to conform to standards of acceptable
conduct and prevailing practice within a health profession." See D.C. Code
2-3305.14(26). This provision was added to the District of Columbia Health
Occupations Revision Act by D.C. Law 10-247, enacted on March 23, 1995. The
Court of Appeals in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Freedman v. DHR</i> expressly
found that the professional psychiatric opinion offered by the psychiatrist to
the employer amounted to the diagnosis of a "disorder." See No.
96-CV-961 at 4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Under current District
law the actions of my former employer, Akin Gump in soliciting an illegal act by
a psychiatrist might be deemed prosecutable as conspiracy and solicitation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sincerely,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Gary Freedman<br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">November 4, 2015</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Honorable Loretta E. Lynch</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Attorney General of the United States</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Washington, DC 20530-0001</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dear
Attorney General Lynch:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">There
is evidence that I committed a felony against the Government of the United
States on November 3, 2015.<span> </span>There is
evidence that I have been engaged, since the year 1991, in a scheme to defraud
the federal government in up to a half million dollars in government benefits
(U.S. Social Security Disability and Medicare benefits).<span> </span>My claim for disability, filed in April 1993,
was based in substantial part on sworn statements executed by my former
employer, the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld (Dennis M. Race,
Esq. and Laurence J. Hoffman, Esq.) .<span>
</span>There is persuasive evidence that said sworn statements, alleging that I
had been determined by the employer, in consultation with a psychiatrist, to
suffer from severe mental illness and that I posed a direct threat in the
workplace (thereby rendering me unfit for employment), were false, perjured or medically
worthless since the assessing psychiatrist did not examine me in person or
obtain my written consent for a psychiatric opinion.<span> </span>See American Psychiatric Association (APA) Goldwater
Rule, <span class="st">Section 7.3 of the </span><em>APA's</em><span class="st">
ethics principles.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">I want to thank the U.S. Department of Justice for
allowing me to collect a monthly disability check since the effective date of
my disability (October 29, 1991).<span> </span>The
forbearance of the Justice Department has allowed me to pursue my writing
ambitions.<span> </span>Enclosed are two novels that
I have written during the term of my disability.<span> </span>My psychiatrists have concluded that I am an
individual of average intellect who suffers from severe (psychotic) mental
illness.<span> </span>See opinions of Napoleon
Cuenco, M.D.; Dimitrios Georgopoulos, M.D.; and Albert H. Taub, M.D.
(enclosed).<span> </span>Despite my obvious intellectual
and severe psychological limitations I have made an attempt to make good use of
the largesse of the federal government.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="st">Thank you.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="st"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gary Freedman </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Barbara
J. Bazron, Ph.D.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Director</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">D.C.
Department of Behavioral Health<br />
<span class="field-content">64 New York Avenue, NE</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="field-content">3rd Floor</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="field-content">Phone: (202) 673-7440</span></span></span></div>
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I am a consumer of mental health services provided by the Department of
Behavioral Health. I had been in weekly out-patient psychotherapy at 35 K
Street with Mohammed Shreiba, M.D., a psychiatry resident working under the supervision
of Earl Baughman, M.D. (St. Elizabeths
Hospital).<br />
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My therapy with Dr. Shreiba ended on June 18, 2015 with the completion of Dr.
Shreiba's residency training program. I was told that I would be
transferred to another resident named Elise Stone, M.D. Dr. Stone has not
yet contacted me. <br />
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Let me apprise you of the seriousness of my case.<br />
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In September 1992 I was diagnosed with bi-polar disorder, a psychotic mental
illness, by Napoleon Cuenco, M.D.<br />
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In February 1996 I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, a psychotic
mental illness, by Dimitrios Georgopoulos, M.D.<br />
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In February 1999 I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, a psychotic
mental illness, by Albert H. Taub, M.D.<br />
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In March 2004 I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, a psychotic mental
illness, by Israella Bash, Ph.D.<br />
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In October 1991 my former employer terminated my employment after determining,
in consultation with a psychiatrist, that I suffered from severe mental illness
and that I was potentially violent. I have been disabled and unemployed
since that time. You may review this disability determination with Dennis
M. Race, Esq. at the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld (Akin
Gump) at (202) 887-4028. The D.C. Office of Attorney General affirmed
that Akin Gump's disability determination was genuine and credible.<br />
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The D.C. Office of the Attorney General determined that in August 1989 my Akin
Gump coworkers formed genuine and credible fears that I might become armed and
extremely dangerous. The D.C. Attorney General determined that my
coworkers formed genuine and credible fears that I might carry out an armed,
mass homicidal assault on the firm's premises.<br />
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My former direct supervisor at Akin Gump determined in October 1991 that I
might carry out a mass homicidal assault on the firm's premises and had the
firm take protective measures against such an assault.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
August 1998 the U.S. Capitol Police (Stevan J. Horan, S.A.) advised me that the
federal government had placed my name on national registry of potentially
violent offenders.<br />
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In October 2004 the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia dispatched
10 police officers and 4 FBI agents to my residence because of fears that I
might become armed and extremely dangerous. The MPDC escorted me to D.C.
General for an emergency forensic psychiatric examination.<br />
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I urge the D.C. Department of Behavioral Health to assign me to out-patient
psychotherapy at 35 K Street at the earliest possible time.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sincerely,</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gary Freedman</span></div>
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Karl A. Racine, D.C. Attorney General</span></span></div>
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Enclosed are several additional documents, all part of the record on
appeal in the above-referenced matter, that highlight peculiarities in
my job termination by the law firm of Akin, Gump, Starauss, Hauer &
Feld: a job termination that formed the basis of a determination by the
U.S. Social Security Administration that I became disabled and eligible
for government benefits effective October 29, 1991, the date of
termination.<br /> <br /> Please keep the following chronology in mind:<br /> <br />
October 29, 1991: I was terminated by senior counsel Dennis M. Race,
Esq. at a meeting in Race's office attended by my direct supervisor
(Chris Robertson) and the personnel administrator (Laurel Digweed).<br /> <br />
February 4, 1992: The D.C. Department of Human Rights issued an
unlawful termination complaint pursuant to the D.C. Human Rights Act<br /> <br /> May 22, 1992: The employer (Akin Gump) filed with DHR its Response to Interrogatories and Document Request stating, “When terminated, [Claimant] was told that his actual work product was not a problem.”<br /> <br /> September
1992: I filed two letters with DHR detailing the events of the job
termination without knowledge of the employer's Response.<br /> <br /> December 23, 1992: I received from DHR (via USPS registered mail) at my residence a copy of the employer's Response.<br /> <br />
The following documents show that the termination meeting on October
29, 1991 featured a considerable amount of game playing by an Akin Gump
senior attorney manager (Dennis M. Race, Esq.), game playing that is not
entirely consistent with a good faith termination.<br /> <br /> 1. Letter
from Gary Freedman to DHR dated September 25, 1992 in which I admitted
that Race told me that my personnel file contained written statements
detailing various infractions and instances of misconduct I had engaged
in during my tenure. Race deliberately lied about said statements.
Upon receipt of Akin Gump's Response on December 23, 1992 I learned that
my personnel file contained no such written statements [R. 132].<br /> <br />
2. Akin Gump Response dated May 22, 1992 states: "During his tenure,
Claimant was not given a formal written reprimand. However,
Respondent's concern about his inability to interact with co-workiers
and volatile behavior were addressed by his immediate supervisor,
Chrstine Robertson (caucasian/female) during several conferences with
Claimant [R. 132]. In fact, my personnel record (Performance
Evaluations or other documents) contains no contemporaneous memorial of
any such conferences. The only memorial of such "conferences" is a
retaliatory memo dated October 25, 1991 [R. 369-70], written by my
supervisor (Robertson) the day after I complained about her. See Jeppsen v. Wunnicke, 611 F. Supp. 78, 82 (D.C. Alaska 1985) (a
harassment complaint will more likely than not yield diametrically
opposed statements from the complaining employee and the alleged
offending supervisor and coworkers). Note that said memo states that my
work performance was "exemplary" [R. 369].<br /> <br /> 3. Letter from
Gary Freedman to DHR dated September 17, 1992, a highly defensive
communication in which I defend the quality of my work performance and
am utterly silent as to any oral statements by Race at the termination
meeting about my mental stability or volatile behavior with coworkers
[R. 527-532]. It is a fundamental principle of human behavior that
people become defensive about things they have been accused of and
remain silent as to things they were never accused of. Clearly, said
letter is persuasive circumstantial evidence that I was told by Race
that the main reason for my termination was poor work performance: that
the employer was silent as to psychological or emotional reasons for the
termination and silent as to volatile behavior.<br /> <br /> Sincerely,<br /> <br /> Gary Freedman </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">cc: U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch </span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><!-- Start of StatCounter Code -->
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Apt. 136 </span></span><br />
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The Honorable Karl A. Racine<br />
Attorney General of the District of Columbia<br />
Government of the District of Columbia<br />
One Judiciary Square<br />
441 Fourth Street, NW<br />
Washington, DC 20001<br />
<br /><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>RE: Department of
Behavioral Health – Possible Abuse of Services<br />
<br />
Dear Mr. Racine:<br />
<br />
I am a consumer of mental health services provided by the D.C. Department of
Behavioral Health as well as a Social Security disability claimant. My
out-patient psychotherapeutic treatment provided by Mohammed Shreiba, M.D. (K
Street Clinic) ended on June 18, 2015 with the completion of Dr. Shreiba's residency
training program under the supervision of Earl Baughman, M.D. (St. Elizabeths
Hospital). My psychotherapy will resume sometime in July 2015 with Elise
Stone, M.D. (K Street Clinic), a third year psychiatry resident under the
supervision of Dr. Baughman.<br />
<br />
I previously forwarded to your office my former employer's (Akin, Gump,
Strauss, Hauer & Feld's) sworn Response to Particulars in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Freedman v. D.C. Department of Human Rights</i>,
D.C.C.A. no. 96-CV-961 (Sept. 1, 1998), an unlawful job termination matter in
which the employer alleged that I was found to be unemployable in late October
1991 on the grounds that I suffered from a psychiatric “disorder” that rendered
me a direct threat in the workplace. Said pleadings were a material
factor in the Social Security Administration's determination in August 1993
that I became unemployable and eligible for disability benefits effective
October 29, 1991, the date of termination.<br />
<br />
This letter provides my denial of allegations made by Akin Gump in said sworn
Response to Particulars. The veracity of my denial is supported by the
fact that the following statements constitute admissions adverse to my Social
Security disability claim. Please recall that at the time I applied for
Social Security disability benefits on April 20, 1993 I advised the agency that
I believed that I was employable and that I believed that my job termination
was wrongful, malicious and discriminatory. The following statement is
consistent with my long-held view that the employer's termination was wrongful
and that its defense of the termination was pretextual and based on false
statements.<br />
<br />
<b>STATEMENT OF D.C. DEPARTMENT OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CONSUMER DENYING
EMPLOYER'S ALLEGATIONS REGARDING WORK HISTORY AND EMPLOYABILITY AS OF OCTOBER
29, 1991</b><br />
<br />
<span style="color: black;">1. “Claimant, Gary Freedman, was initially employed
by Respondent law firm, Akin, Gump, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. [June 13, 1988] as
a temporary employee for a specific project (See Attachment B). Later [August
1, 1989] Claimant was employed as a full-time legal assistant (“paralegal”) to
manage massive amounts of documents for a major client (See Attachment C).
Shortly thereafter [on March 9, 1989], the client filed for bankruptcy
protection and eventually the legal work diminished.”</span><br />
<br />
FALSE<br />
<br />
The major client on which I was assigned, Eastern Airlines, filed for
bankruptcy protection on March 9, 1989. See Salpukas, A. "Eastern
Requests Bankrupt Status to Cut Strike Loss," <i>The New York Times, </i>March
10, 1989. The employer admits (Response to Particulars at
Paragraph 1) that I was hired as a full-time employee with benefits five months
later on August 1, 1989, when, according to the employer “the legal work
diminished.”<br />
<br />
2. “In an attempt to find comparable work for the Claimant, a decision was made
to transfer him to the Litigation Support Department.”<br />
<br />
FALSE<br />
<br />
I was not "transferred" to the Litigation Support Department. In
unrelated litigation, the employer acknowledged that a move from the paralegal
program to the litigation support group constituted a demotion. See <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">McNeil v. Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer &
Feld</i>, D.C.D.C. no. 93-0477 (1993) at note 2. The employer concealed
the fact that I was demoted and not simply transferred. Why did the
employer actively conceal the fact that said transfer constituted a demotion?<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3. “Although Claimant stated that he felt he was continually
harassed by fellow workers, his contentions lacked substance.”<br />
<br />
CONTRARY TO LAW<br />
<br />
Appellant’s complaint of harassment to the employer concerned very subtle
harassment. While an unsophisticated, nonlegal employer might plausibly deem an
employee’s complaint based on such harassment unbelievable, it is far less
convincing that knowledgeable attorney managers of a major law firm, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cf. U.S. v. Moore,</i> 931 F.2d 245 (1991)
(Akin Gump’s “very able counsel” are presumed to know the law), would credibly
find appellant’s harassment complaint “baseless as proof of sexual or religious
harassment” [Rec. 138]. In fact, a complaint based on subtle harassment is
legally cognizable. At least one court (in a foreign jurisdiction), noting that
“sexual harassment based on the creation of an offensive, hostile and
intimidating environment . . . can take many forms and is often very subtle,”
has permitted expert testimony to illuminate for the finder of fact the nature
of plaintiff’s work environment and the sexual connotations of seemingly
trivial events. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Eide v. Kelsey-Hayes Co.,</i>
397 N.W.2d 532, 538 (Mich. App. 1986).<br />
<br />
4. "[Claimant’s allegation that] a female co-worker stood by him swinging
her hips so as to provoke him [was baseless as proof of sexual
harassment.]"<br />
<br />
FALSE<br />
<br />
The D.C. Department of Human Rights specifically found that a complete
description of the incident includes the following facts:<br />
<br />
Finding of Fact “4(i) On the afternoon of October 2, 1991 Complainant met with
legal assistant Katherine Harkness in her private office on the fifth floor to
review some work with Complainant had been doing under her direction.
Complainant was seated in front of her desk. Ms. Harkness was in back of her
desk, but leaning over it, supporting her torso with her elbows. As she was
reviewing the work she proceeded in a continuous motion to gyrate her hips and
rub her pelvic region against the desk in a sexually suggestive manner while
simultaneously expressing her work-related comments in the form of double
entendres. This lasted for about two to four minutes.”<br />
<br />
I reviewed this incident with EEOC investigator Franklin C. Jones (Washington,
D.C.) in November 1991. Mr. Jones said that said incident was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">prima facie</i> evidence of harassment.<br />
<br />
5. “Claimant also mentioned several phrases which he felt were anti-Semitic:
one employee referring to a July bill with emphasis as if to mean “Jew-lie” and
thereafter was heard singing “liar, liar, pants on fire”; the group’s mascot
was a pig . . . which symbolized pork; and once a back employee was heard to
use a Yiddish term [thereby indicating the insubstantial nature of his claim
that his coworkers had an anti-Semitic animus].”<br />
<br />
FALSE<br />
<br />
In unrelated litigation the employer admitted that the litigation support
group, where I worked, was tainted with anti-Semitic invective. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">See McNeil v. Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer
& Feld, </i>D.C.D.C. no. 93-0477 (1993) (on one occasion an employee in the
litigation support group called another employee a “Jewish bitch”).<br />
<br />
6. “When asked whether these or any of the incidents he mentioned had a direct
impact on him or his employment with Respondent, Claimant answered that they
did not.”<br />
<br />
CONTRARY TO LAW<br />
<br />
In the case of harassment based on a hostile work environment, the material
issue is not the severity or effect of individual incidents of harassment, but
the pervasiveness of the harassment and the cumulative effect of hostile and
intimidating behaviors. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Robinson v. Jacksonville Shipyards, Inc.,</i>
760 F. Supp. 1486 (M.D. Fla. 1991).<br />
<br />
“[A discrimination] analysis cannot carve the work environment into a series of
discrete incidents and measure the harm adhering in each episode. Rather a
holistic perspective is necessary, keeping in mind that each successive episode
has its predecessors, that the impact of the separate incidents may accumulate,
and that the work environment created thereby may exceed the sum of the
individual episodes. ‘A play cannot be understood on the basis of some of its
scenes but only on its entire performance, and similarly, a discrimination
analysis must concentrate not on individual incidents but on the overall
scenario.’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Andrews</i>, 895 F.2d at 1484.
It follows naturally from this proposition that the environment viewed as a
whole may satisfy the legal definition of an abusive working environment
although no single episode crosses the Title VII threshold.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Robinson</i> at 1524.<br />
<br />
7. “Claimant was uncomfortable communicating with his peers.”<br />
<br />
FALSE<br />
<br />
The employer admitted that I had supervisory skills and that during a six-month
period in 1989 I inspired my coworkers.<br />
<br />
“Gary recently trained and supervised five temporary coders who were brought in
to expedite the coding of some 200,000 pages of document production. In doing
so, he inspired the group who were always eager to work and adopted Gary’s own
sense of commitment to the case.” [Ability to work with others:] Above
average. Constance Brown, November 6, 1989 [R. 219-222].<br />
<br />
<span style="color: black;">The performance evaluation dated May 1991, six months
before termination, described me as "a team player." I had been
assigned to the litigation support office suite on April 8, 1991. Said
evaluation also states: "</span>Gary has recently moved down to the
terrace level and has truly become a part of the Lit Support team after being
isolated on the ninth floor [sic] [I worked in a large group office on the
ninth floor from October 1989 to April 1991]. He is both communicative
and personable and has made the adjustment well. [AREAS NEEDING IMPROVEMENT]:
None!" [R. 155-160].<br />
<br />
8. “During the investigation of his concerns, it was also brought out that his
behavior had been disruptive, with occasional violent outbursts, and
frightening to co-workers.”<br />
<br />
FALSE<br />
<br />
There is no contemporaneous documentation to support this allegation. My
personnel file contains no record of such behavior and includes no record of
reprimands, either oral or written. My performance evaluations rated my
ability to work with others at least average or above-average. <br />
<br />
9. “Because of the emotional and psychological nature of Mr. Freedman’s
complaints and those lodged against him, Messrs. Lassman and Race also sought
professional guidance from two outside consultants: (1) a representation from
the Employee Assistance Program [EAP]; and (2) a practicing psychiatrist.”<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">UNSUPPORTED<br />
<br />
The psychiatrist, Gertrude R. Ticho, M.D. (deceased) later denied speaking with
anyone at Akin Gump and specifically denied ever having spoken to Dennis M.
Race, Esq. The EAP later disclosed that it had no record of any contacts with
Akin Gump and termed the employer’s allegation as sounding “fabricated” since
it violated the EAP’s established business practice.<br />
<br />
EMPLOYER’S TORTIOUS CONDUCT<br />
<br />
Under the American Psychiatric Association’s so-called Goldwater Rule a
psychiatrist may not offer a professional opinion to a third party about
someone she has not seen in private consultation and without the individual’s
written consent. The employer’s attorney managers either knew or should have
known about this provision. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cf. U.S. v.
Moore</i>, 931 F.2d 245 (1991) (Akin Gump’s “very able counsel” are presumed to
know the law). The firm’s pleadings attributing mental illness to me on the
basis of an unethical psychiatric opinion constitutes defamation<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. See Goldwater v. Ginzburg</i>, 414 F.2d
324 (1969).<br />
<br />
10. “He . . . could not function in a group setting (he could not work with or
in close proximity to other legal assistants or litigation support personnel).”<br />
<br />
FALSE<br />
<br />
During the period March 1989 through October 1989 I shared office space with
two legal assistants. I did not complain about this arrangement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On August 1, 1989 I was granted full-time
status with benefits.<br />
<br />
During the period October 1989 to April 1991 I shared a large office space with
numerous other legal assistants. I did not complain about this arrangement.<br />
<br />
During the period April 1991 to October 1991 I worked in the litigation support
office suite adjacent to another legal assistant named Robert E. Dillon, Esq.,
now a practicing attorney in Philadelphia, PA (telephone: 215-568-5116).
I requested private office space on one occasion only, October 23-24, 1991.
During this time period (April-October 1991) two employees in litigation
support (Lutheria Harrison and Sherry Ann Patrick) requested and were granted a
change in office assignment. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">See
McNeil v. Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld</i>, D.C.D.C. Civil no. 93-0477
(1993) at note 2. Moreover, the employer admitted in unrelated litigation
that the litigation support office suite was rife with unprofessional behavior,
including insubordination, abuse of telephone privileges and anti-Semitic
invective. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">See McNeil v. Akin, Gump,
Strauss, Hauer & Feld</i>, D.C.D.C. no. 93-0477 (1993) (on one occasion a
litigation support employee called a coworker a "Jewish bitch") [R.
57-61]<br />
<br />
11. “When terminated, he was told that his actual work product was not a
problem.”<br />
<br />
FALSE<br />
<br />
This is a deliberate lie. At the termination meeting I was told that my
work was subpar and that my work performance was an issue in the termination
decision.<br />
<br />
The record on appeal [R. 453-454] contains a document I wrote, date-stamped
September 25, 1992, that memorializes my telephone contacts with the employer's
attorney managers immediately after the termination, and which includes the
following recital:<br />
<br />
“October 30, 1991 — Around 9:00 AM I telephoned Dennis Race at the office and
asked him if the firm would object to a claim for unemployment insurance. Mr.
Race said that the firm would not object, as long as I didn’t put down anything
that embarrassed the firm. Noting that the previous day, Mr. Race had said that
one of the reasons for my termination was that I ignored people’s corrections,
I directed Mr. Race’s attention to my job evaluation dated November 1989 that
expressly stated that I “catered to individual needs.” Mr. Race asked me if
J.D. Neary had written that; I said, no, Constance Brown. Mr. Race politely
explained that the problems with my work arose after that job evaluation had
been written, which apparently in Mr. Race’s mind, made that job evaluation
irrelevant. The telephone call was cordial. I was somewhat agitated since I
hadn’t slept the night before. ”<br />
<br />
12. "During his transition from a legal assistant position (paralegal) to
his work with the litigation support department [March 1990], Claimant had
several discussions with his direct supervisor about problems with interacting
with co-workers and occasional outbursts."<br />
<br />
FALSE<br />
<br />
My personnel records do not support the allegation that I had any
contemporaneous difficulties with coworkers or outbursts. My performance
evaluations were above average or outstanding. D.C. Department of Human Rights
Finding of Fact no. 2. My ability to work with others was consistently
rated at least average or above average.<br />
<br />
The contemporaneous performance evaluation dated May 1990 (covering the
previous six-month period) states:<br />
<br />
Gary has picked up the basics of on-line coding with very minimal instructions.
With additional experience, he should adapt better to the software techniques.
Always mindful of quality control, which aids in more efficient data entry.
Relentless, thriving on huge volume while maintaining a good end product.
Totally independent, self-sustaining and committed to his work. Extremely solid
and aiming to please. I trust Gary’s ability to meet whatever the demand with
little guidance. Gary is receptive no matter what the task and takes every
assignment seriously. Even at times when material has to be redone because of
GPE’s. Great pressure buffer. I can be at ease knowing Gary will prevail. Gary
seems to find those small mistakes which are not obvious to the average eye.
Well-tuned, good analytical eye for detail. He can turn any combination of
words into a statement. [AREAS IN WHICH MOST CAPABLE]: His dedication to
consistency and detail, eager attitude and independent nature. [AREAS OF SIGNIFICANT
IMPROVEMENT]: Working directly with the computer. [AREAS NEEDING IMPROVEMENT]:
Adapting to the software environment, being aware of its characteristics and
sensitivities and distinguishing those traits which are unique to each base. Of
course, with time, this atmosphere will be more evident. [ABILITY TO WORK WITH
OTHERS:] Average. [R. 311-314]<br />
<br />
13. “Until the filing of this Charge [on February 4, 1992], the subject of
Claimant’s sexual orientation was never brought up by Claimant or anyone
involved directly or indirectly with Claimant’s employment. While Claimant
raised concerns about sexual and religious harassment, he never stated that it
was based on his sexual orientation — nor was it ever interpreted as such by anyone
involved in this matter.”<br />
<br />
FALSE<br />
<br />
This is a deliberate lie. The D.C. Department of Human Rights specifically
found that the subject of my sexual orientation came up at a meeting with the
employer on October 23, 1991, days before the termination on October 29, 1991. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">See </i>D.C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Department of Human Rights Finding of Fact no. 7. The D.C. Court
of Appeals affirmed this agency finding of fact. The employer willfully
lied about its knowledge about my membership in a protected class, which is
definitive proof of pretext. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Cf. Russell v. Acme-Evans Co.,</span></i><span style="color: black;"> 51 F.3d 64, 68 (7th Cir. 1995) ("Pretext . . . means
a lie, specifically a phony reason for some action."); <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cf. Anderson v. Baxter Healthcare Corp</i>.,
13 F.3d 1120, 1124 (7th Cir. 1994) ("If the only reason an employer offers
for firing an employee is a lie, the inference that the real reason was a
forbidden one . . . may rationally be drawn.") quoting <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Shager v. Upjohn Co.,</i> 913 F.2d 398, 401
(7th Cir. 1990). </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="attorneystatss">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Sincerely,</span></span></div>
<div class="attorneystatss">
<br /></div>
<div class="attorneystatss">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">Gary Freedman</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="color: black;">cc: U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch </span></span></div>
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am a consumer of mental health services provided by the D.C. Department
of Behavioral Health as well as a Social Security disability claimant.
My out-patient psychotherapeutic treatment provided by Mohammed
Shreiba, M.D. (K Street Clinic) ended on June 18, 2015 with the
completion of Dr. Shreiba's residency training program under the
supervision of Earl Baughman, M.D. (St. Elizabeths Hospital). My
psychotherapy will resume some time in July 2015 with Elise Stone, M.D.
(K Street Clinic), a third year psychiatry resident under the
supervision of Dr. Baughman.<br /><br />I previously forwarded to your
office my former employer's (Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld's)
sworn Response to Particulars in Freedman v. D.C. Department of Human
Rights, D.C.C.A. no. 96-CV-961 (Sept. 1, 1998), an unlawful termination
matter in which the employer alleged that I was found to be unemployable
in late October 1991 on the grounds that I suffered from mental illness
that rendered me a direct threat in the workplace. Said pleadings were a
material factor in the Social Security's determination in August 1993
that I became unemployable and eligible for disability benefits
effective October 29,1991, the date of termination.<br /><br />This letter
provides my denial of allegations made by Akin Gump in said sworn
Response to Particulars. The veracity of my denial is supported by the
fact that the following statements constitute admissions adverse to my
Social Security disability claim. Please recall that at the time I
applied for Social Security disability benefits on April 20, 1993 I
advised the agency that I believed that I was employable and that I
believed that my job termination was wrongful, malicious and
discriminatory. The following statement is consistent with my long-held
view that the employer's termination was wrongful and that its defense
of the termination was pretextual and based on false statements.<br /><br /><b>STATEMENT
OF D.C. DEPARTMENT OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CONSUMER DENYING EMPLOYER'S
ALLEGATIONS REGARDING WORK HISTORY AND EMPLOYABILITY AS OF OCTOBER 29, 1991</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">1. “Claimant, Gary Freedman, was initially employed by Respondent law firm,
Akin, Gump, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. [effective June 13, 1988] as a temporary employee for a
specific project (See Attachment B). Later [effective August 1, 1989]
Claimant was employed as a full-time legal assistant (“paralegal”) to
manage massive amounts of documents for a major client (See Attachment
C). Shortly thereafter [on March 9, 1989], the client filed for
bankruptcy protection and eventually the legal work diminished.”</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
FALSE</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">The major client on which I was assigned, Eastern Airlines, filed for
bankruptcy protection on March 9, 1989. See Salpukas, A. "Eastern Requests Bankrupt Status to Cut Strike Loss," <i>The New York Times, </i>March 10, 1989. The employer admits (Response
to Particulars at Paragraph 1) that I was hired as a full-time employee
with benefits five months later on August 1, 1989, when, according to
the employer “the legal work diminished.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">2. “In an attempt to find comparable work for the Claimant, a
decision was made to transfer him to the Litigation Support Department.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">FALSE</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">I was not "transferred" to the Litigation Support Department. In
unrelated litigation, the employer acknowledged that a move from the
paralegal program to the litigation support group constituted a
demotion. See McNeil v. Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, D.C.D.C. Civil Action No. 93-0477 (1993) at note 2. The
employer concealed the fact that I was demoted and not simply
transferred. Why did the employer actively conceal the fact that said transfer constituted a demotion?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">3. “Although Claimant stated that he felt he was continually harassed by fellow workers, his contentions lacked substance.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">CONTRARY TO LAW</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">Appellant’s complaint of harassment to the employer concerned very
subtle harassment. While an unsophisticated, nonlegal employer might
plausibly deem an employee’s complaint based on such harassment
unbelievable, it is far less convincing that knowledgeable attorney
managers of a major law firm would credibly find appellant’s harassment
complaint “baseless as proof of sexual or religious harassment” [Rec.
138]. In fact, a complaint based on subtle harassment is legally
cognizable. At least one court (in a foreign jurisdiction), noting that
“sexual harassment based on the creation of an offensive, hostile and
intimidating environment . . . can take many forms and is often very
subtle,” has permitted expert testimony to illuminate for the finder of
fact the nature of plaintiff’s work environment and the sexual
connotations of seemingly trivial events. Eide v. Kelsey-Hayes Co., 397
N.W.2d 532, 538 (Mich. App. 1986).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">4. "[Claimant’s allegation that] a female co-worker stood by him
swinging her hips so as to provoke him [was baseless as proof of sexual
harassment.]"</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">FALSE</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">The Department of Human Rights specifically found that a complete description of the incident includes the following facts:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">Finding of Fact “4(i) On the afternoon of October 2, 1991 Complainant
met with legal assistant Katherine Harkness in her private office on
the fifth floor to review some work with Complainant had been doing
under her direction. Complainant was seated in front of her desk. Ms.
Harkness was in back of her desk, but leaning over it, supporting her
torso with her elbows. As she was reviewing the work she proceeded in a
continuous motion to gyrate her hips and rub her pelvic region against
the desk in a sexually suggestive manner while simultaneously expressing
her work-related comments in the form of double entendres. This lasted
for about two to four minutes.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">I reviewed this incident with EEOC investigator Franklin C. Jones
(Washington, D.C.) in November 1991. Mr. Jones said that said incident
was prima facie evidence of harassment.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">5. “Claimant also mentioned several phrases which he felt were
anti-Semitic: one employee referring to a July bill with emphasis as if
to mean “Jew-lie” and thereafter was heard singing “liar, liar, pants on
fire”; the group’s mascot was a pig . . . which symbolized pork; and
once a back employee was heard to use a Yiddish term [thereby indicating the insubstantial nature of his claim that his coworkers had an antisemitic animus].”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">FALSE</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">In unrelated litigation the employer admitted that the litigation
support group, where I worked, was tainted with anti-semitic invective.
See McNeil v. Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, U.S.D.C.D.C. Civil
Action No. 93-0477 (1993) (on one occasion an employee in the litigation support group
called another employee a “Jewish bitch.”).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">6. “When asked whether these or any of the incidents he mentioned had
a direct impact on him or his employment with Respondent, Claimant
answered that they did not.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">CONTRARY TO LAW</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">In the case of harassment based on a hostile work environment, the
material issue is not the severity or effect of individual incidents of
harassment, but the pervasiveness of the harassment and the cumulative
effect of hostile and intimidating behaviors. Robinson v. Jacksonville
Shipyards, Inc., 760 F. Supp. 1486 (M.D. Fla. 1991).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">“[A discrimination] analysis cannot carve the work environment into a
series of discrete incidents and measure the harm adhering in each
episode. Rather a holistic perspective is necessary, keeping in mind
that each successive episode has its predecessors, that the impact of
the separate incidents may accumulate, and that the work environment
created thereby may exceed the sum of the individual episodes. ‘A play
cannot be understood on the basis of some of its scenes but only on its
entire performance, and similarly, a discrimination analysis must
concentrate not on individual incidents but on the overall scenario.’
Andrews, 895 F.2d at 1484. It follows naturally from this proposition
that the environment viewed as a whole may satisfy the legal definition
of an abusive working environment although no single episode crosses the
Title VII threshold.” Robinson v. Jacksonville Shipyards, Inc., 760 F. Supp. 1486, 1524.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">7. “Claimant was uncomfortable communicating with his peers.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">FALSE</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">The employer admitted that I had supervisory skills and that during a six-month period in 1989 I inspired my coworkers.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">“Gary recently trained and supervised five temporary coders who were
brought in to expedite the coding of some 200,000 pages of document
production. In doing so, he inspired the group who were always eager to
work and adopted Gary’s own sense of commitment to the case.” [Ability
to work with others:] Above average. Constance Brown, November 6, 1989 [R. 219-222]</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">The performance evaluation dated May 1991, six months before termination, described me as "a team player." I had been assigned to the litigation support office suite on April 8, 1991. Said evaluation also states: "</span></span></span></span>Gary has recently moved down to the terrace level and has truly
become a part of the Lit Support team after being isolated on the ninth
floor [sic] [I worked in a large group office on the ninth floor from October 1989 to April 1991]. He is both communicative and personable and has made the
adjustment well. [AREAS NEEDING IMPROVEMENT]: None!"[R. 155-160]<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">8. “During the investigation of his concerns, it was also brought out
that his behavior had been disruptive, with occasional violent
outbursts, and frightening to co-workers.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">FALSE</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">There is no contemporaneous documentation to support this allegation.
My personnel file contains no record of such behavior. My performance
evaluations rated my ability to work with others at least average or
above-average. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">9. “Because of the emotional and psychological nature of Mr.
Freedman’s complaints and those lodged against him, Messrs. Lassman and
Race also sought professional guidance from two outside consultants: (1)
a representation from the Employee Assistance Program [EAP]; and (2) a
practicing psychiatrist.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">UNSUPPORTED</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">The psychiatrist, Gertrude R. Ticho later denied speaking with anyone
at Akin Gump and specifically denied ever having spoken to Dennis M. Race, Esq. The EAP later disclosed that it had no record of any contacts with Akin Gump and
termed the employer’s allegation as sounding “fabricated” since it
violated the EAP’s established business practice.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">EMPLOYER’S TORTIOUS CONDUCT</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">Under the American Psychiatric Association’s so-called Goldwater Rule
a psychiatrist may not offer a professional opinion to a third party
about someone she has not seen in private consultation and without the
individual’s written consent. The employer’s attorney managers either
knew or should have known about this provision. Cf. U.S. v. Moore, 931
F.2d 245 (1991) (Akin Gump’s “very able counsel” are presumed to know
the law). The firm’s pleadings attributing mental illness to me on the
basis of an unethical psychiatric opinion constitutes defamation. See
Goldwater v. Ginzburg, 414 F.2d 324 (1969).</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br />
10. “He . . . could not function in a group setting (he could not work
with or in close proximity to other legal assistants or litigation
support personnel).”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">FALSE</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">During the period March 1989 through October 1989 I shared office
space with two legal assistants. I did not complain about this arrangement.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">During the period October 1989 to April 1991 I shared a large office
space with numerous other legal assistants. I did not complain about this
arrangement.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">During the period April 1991 to October 1991 I worked in the
litigation support office suite. I requested private office space on one
occasion only, October 23-24, 1991. During this time period (April-October 1991) two
employees in litigation support (Lutheria Harrison and Sherry Ann
Patrick) requested and were granted a change in office assignment. See
McNeil v. Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, D.C.D.C. Civil
Action No. 930477 (1993) at note 2. Moreover, the employer
admitted in unrelated litigation that the litigation support office suite was
rife with unprofessional behavior, including insubordination, abuse of
telephone privileges and antisemitic invective. See McNeil v. Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, D.C.D.C. Civil Action No. 93-0477
(1993) (on one occasion a litigation support employee called a coworker a "Jewish bitch") [R. 57-61]</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">11. “When terminated, he was told that his actual work product was not a problem.”</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">FALSE</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">This is a deliberate lie. At the termination meeting I was told that
my work was subpar and that my work performance was an issue in the
termination decision.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">The record on appeal [R. 453-454] contains a document I wrote, date-stamped September 25, 1992, that memorializes my telephone contacts with the employer's attorney managers immediately after the termination, and which includes the following recital:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">“October 30, 1991 — Around 9:00 AM I telephoned Dennis Race at the
office and asked him if the firm would object to a claim for
unemployment insurance. Mr. Race said that the firm would not object, as
long as I didn’t put down anything that embarrassed the firm. Noting
that the previous day, Mr. Race had said that one of the reasons for my
termination was that I ignored people’s corrections, I directed Mr.
Race’s attention to my job evaluation dated November 1989 that expressly
stated that I “catered to individual needs.” Mr. Race asked me if J.D.
Neary had written that; I said, no, Constance Brown. Mr. Race politely
explained that the problems with my work arose after that job evaluation
had been written, which apparently in Mr. Race’s mind, made that job
evaluation irrelevant. The telephone call was cordial. I was somewhat
agitated since I hadn’t slept the night before. [9/25/92]</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">12. "During his transition from a legal assistant position (paralegal)
to his work with the litigation support department [March 1990],
Claimant had several discussions with his direct supervisor about
problems with interacting with co-workers and occasional outbursts."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">FALSE</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">My personnel records do not support the allegation that I had any
contemporaneous difficulties with coworkers or outbursts. My performance
evaluations were above average or outstanding. Department of Human
Rights Finding of Fact 2. My ability to work with others was
consistently rated at least average or above average.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">The contemporaneous performance evaluation dated May 1990 (covering the previous six-month period) states:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">Gary has picked up the basics of on-line coding with very minimal
instructions. With additional experience, he should adapt better to the
software techniques. Always mindful of quality control, which aids in
more efficient data entry. Relentless, thriving on huge volume while
maintaining a good end product. Totally independent, self-sustaining and
committed to his work. Extremely solid and aiming to please. I trust
Gary’s ability to meet whatever the demand with little guidance. Gary is
receptive no matter what the task and takes every assignment seriously.
Even at times when material has to be redone because of GPE’s. Great
pressure buffer. I can be at ease knowing Gary will prevail. Gary seems
to find those small mistakes which are not obvious to the average eye.
Well-tuned, good analytical eye for detail. He can turn any combination
of words into a statement. [AREAS IN WHICH MOST CAPABLE]: His dedication
to consistency and detail, eager attitude and independent nature.
[AREAS OF SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT]: Working directly with the computer.
[AREAS NEEDING IMPROVEMENT]: Adapting to the software environment, being
aware of its characteristics and sensitivities and distinguishing those
traits which are unique to each base. Of course, with time, this
atmosphere will be more evident. [ABILITY TO WORK WITH OTHERS:] Average. [R. 311-314]</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">13. "Until the filing of this Charge [on February 4, 1992], the subject of Claimant’s sexual
orientation was never brought up by Claimant or anyone involved
directly or indirectly with Claimant’s employment. While Claimant raised
concerns about sexual and religious harassment, he never stated that it
was based on his sexual orientation — nor was it ever interpreted as
such by anyone involved in this matter."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">FALSE</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;">
</span><span style="font-size: small;">This is a deliberate lie. The Department of Human Rights specifically
found that the subject of my sexual orientation came up at a meeting
with the employer on October 23, 1991, days before the termination on
October 29, 1991. See Department of Human Rights Finding of Fact no. 7.
The D.C. Court of Appeals affirmed this agency finding of fact. The employer willfully lied about its knowledge about my membership in a protected class, which is definitive proof of pretext. <span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /><span style="color: black;"></span></span></span><br />
<div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"> Cf. Russell
v. Acme-Evans Co., 51 F.3d 64, 68 (7th Cir. 1995) ("Pretext . . . means
a lie, specifically a phony reason for some action."); cf. Anderson v.
Baxter Healthcare Corp., 13 F.3d 1120, 1124 (7th Cir. 1994) ("If the
only reason an employer offers for firing an employee is a lie, the
inference that the real reason was a forbidden one . . . may rationally
be drawn.") quoting Shager v. Upjohn Co., 913 F.2d 398, 401 (7th Cir.
1990).
</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">
</span></span><br />
<div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">
<div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Sincerely,</span></span></div>
</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span>
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