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KCRA-3 6PM NEWS - AUGUST 7, 1995
Kelly Brothers:
Our top story at 6 o'clock: a Sacramento psychologist has been
stripped of all licenses to practice in California.
Female Announcer:
Dr. Richard Boylan was found guilty of gross negligence and
misconduct with patients. As Channel 3's Tom Duhain reports,
Dr. Boylan's controversial views on UFOs and aliens played an
important part in today's actions.
Tom Duhain:
Richard Boylan learned today that the State had revoked his
psychologist license, his marriage family and child counseling
license and his clinical social worker license. His practice
is shut down.
Richard Boylan:
Oh, I am not going to accept it. It is based on ahhh...falsehoods
and a... ahhh... we want to explore every possibility for a
reconsideration.
Tom Duhain:
Boylan is Past President of the Valley Psychological Association
and formerly the Mental Health Director of Calaveras County. He
is also an author who believes that extraterrestrials have invaded
the earth.
Richard Boylan:
A number of my colleagues have felt that because I have been willing
to look into a cutting edge field like extraterrestrial contact with
humans that ahhh... someone in authority was going to land on me one
of these days, ahhh...
Tom Duhain:
He would not discuss the specific findings of the State Law Court
which led to today's actions. Those include:
Thomas O'Connor:
The Judge found three individuals were harmed ahhh... for (State
Psychology Board) seven sets, seven separate reasons including nude
hot tubbing with the doctor, ahhh... including ahhh... a trip to
Las Vegas, ahhh... and including his interjecting his own
philosophical belief into the therapy making that the focus rather
than the patient's presenting problem.
Tom Duhain:
Boylan says the charges are false.
Richard Boylan:
We really felt that the evidence that was brought out at the hearing
ahhh.. would move them to lay aside these complaints, but that did
not happen.
Tom Duhain:
Boylan's only recourse now is legal action in Superior Court. In
Sacramento, Tom Duhain, Channel 3 Reports.
Female Announcer:
State officials said they closed his practice because they consider
Boylan a danger to other patients. There are about 13,000 licensed
psychologists in California. On average, about forty licenses are
revoked every year, mostly for sexual misconduct.
Sarah Gardner Reporting:
And a Superior Court Judge has ruled Dr. Richard Boylan will never get back his license to practice psychology. Boylan lost his license last August on seven counts of gross misconduct. They include nude hot tubbing and exchanging nude massages with people he was supposed to be treating. The 56-year-old Boylan claimed he was being persecuted for his beliefs in UFOs, but the judge said Boylan's conduct was outrageous and Boylan's UFO story was simply irrelevant.
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