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with the doctor at the very end, after having dealt with his staff through the rest of the evaluation. I wouldn't consider him a crusader, like some sex offender psychiatrists. He charges too much to be covered by insurance, so he's dealing with clients who pay him out of their own pockets, and he knows which side his bread is buttered on, so he'll try to at least offer you something positive in your report. He'll also warn you if the evaluation isn't going to turn out well for you, so that you can cut your losses and not pay for him to actually produce a report. He's pretty old-school in his techniques. For example, some of the sex offender testing inventories he uses seem pretty ancient. Sometimes you can barely read them, because they're like nth generation photocopies from originals dating back several decades. He doesn't seem to focus a lot on widely-used tools like the Static-99, or on treatment recommendations, the way most modern sex offender psychiatrists do. At the end of the day, like just about every psychiatrist under the sun (except for Mr. Szasz), he's going to have a negative attitude toward those who hold dissident opinions. I think he prides himself on his neutrality, or at least wants people to believe that he's neutral, but he's really not all that neutral. He's just not as bad as some. He also takes forever to actually produce a report. If you're low-income, like I was, you might try to bargain him down a bit on the fee. |