During the period 2004-2005 I was a psychotherapy out-patient with the D.C. Department of Mental Health (Spring Road Clinic) under the care of Israella Bash, Ph.D. Dr. Bash is a forensic psychologist who qualifies as an expert in court proceedings. Dr. Bash is the co-author of "The Determination of Malingering," Annals of the N.Y. Academy of Sciences, 347(1): 86-99, June 1980.
It was Dr. Bash's professional opinion that I was engaged in malingering while I was her patient and that I was fully employable. Perhaps the U.S. Attorney would like to call Dr. Bash as a witness for the prosecution for the crime of defrauding the U.S. Social Security Administration -- which I appear to be engaged in.
Summary of one of my sessions with Dr. Bash:
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"Let's all go to the lobby." (I was born in December 1953.)
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"Murder in the Lobby" based on the tune "Let's all go to the lobby."
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I first saw the Billy Wilder movie Witness for the Prosecution on television when I was a boy.
ReplyDeleteOddly enough, it was in that movie that I first learned the German word for "perjury."
Charles Laughton examines Marlene Dietrich on the witness stand:
--Mrs Helm, I presume you know the
meaning of the English word "perjury"? In German, the word is Meineid.
--Yes. Meineid.
--It means to swear falsely under oath. And are you aware, Mrs Helm,
that the penalty in this country for perjury is a heavy term of imprisonment?
--Yes, I'm aware.
The word "meineid" is a critical feature of the following interpretation of one of my dreams, "The Dream of Murder in the Lobby."
http://dailstrug.blogspot.com/2010/06/dream-of-murder-in-lobby.html
Am I at all concerned that Dr. Bash thought I was malingering and that I was employable in 2004-2005?
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On October 12, 2004 10 MPDC and 4 FBI agents showed up at my door and hauled me off to DC General for an emergency forensic psych exam!!
Prosecute me with the testimony of Dr. Bash: Make my day!!