WT web site now says to get professional help for psychological trauma/rape (page 2)

Wasanelder Once

Actually that article was in the Aug 22, 2001 issue of the Awacky. Not too new. Time flys when you're having fun.

W.Once

MidwichCuckoo

WT web site now says to get professional help for psychological trauma/rape

That's big of them. Are they trying to say that they're not qualified to empathise with / counsel an individual who has experienced a traumatic event? I am gobsmacked.

This topic is funny to me because I once saw an elder who was a psychiatrist, professionally. I forgot his name, but he practiced somewhere in the San Diego area. My mom made me go see him after something had happened. She must have figured that I would get a double whammy seeing that he was both a doctor and an elder. I remember sitting there with him prying me for information but I was pretty tight lipped during the entire visit. If I recall correctly, it bothered me that he was a witness. My folks were the typical JW's that looked upon this line of medical treatment as being of the debil. But it was A-OK to go see one of these doctors because he was a JW. That made it all better.

luna2

Jourles, I think it was good that you didn't say too much. The whole idea of confiding in this elder/psychiatrist guy gives me the willies. I wonder if he would have kept anything disfellowship-worthy that he heard in his professional capacity confidential...so much potential for abuse there.

mrs rocky2

Elder = someone not to trust. Confidentiality with the elders is a joke. They are the biggest gossips!!!

rebel8

I didn't realize they had come out and said this before. In 2001 I was in my "pretend like the jw thing didn't happen" phase, so I didn't have any idea what they were saying. The last thing I knew on that topic would have been in 2000 when I treated a jw sex abuse victim whose perp was her elder-dad, and he wasn't the least bit accepting of her seeking therapy. I guess JWs don't care about conflicts of interest either.

An elder who is a psychiatrist....that's a laugh. The two roles seem mutually exclusive. I imagine he had to be a good elder/bad MD or a bad elder/good MD.

Awaky, gobsmacked....I learn so many funny words on the internet. :)

blondie

Considering that the WTS has put in writing that JW healthcare professionals or even the receptionist at the clinic who finds out that a JW has while a JW had an abortion or a transfusion is required to report it to the elders to be handled judicially. I wish I could find my post some months back where a JW lost her job, sued, and lost again in court for breaking confidentiality.

Blondie