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V.M. vs. Margaret L Harlan & Assoc / Harlan & Associates

V. M. vs. Marge Harlan
108 E 5th St, Sedalia, Missouri, 65301-4402, United States
Amount Involved: $1,000,000.00
Complaint(s): Malpractice | Side Effects
    • Status: In Negotiation
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    • Claim #: 3825373
    • Amount Involved: 1,000,000.00
    • Filed On: Oct 19, 2017
    • Posted On: Jan 10, 2018
    • Complaint(s):
      • Malpractice
      • Side Effects
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Statement of Claim
Complaints Involved (2) - View
Claimant says:
"This is for my spouse John, who is incapacitated at this time.

My husband's second marriage was not doing very well. He was going to try to save that marriage so went to get marital therapy at the above named. He told me things about it & I was somewhat alarmed by what he said. He was not court-ordered to attend. This was not a condition of any court decision. It was on his own accord in an earnest attempt to be a better husband.
He said that a process was used on him that I had never heard of prior to his story, called "flooding". He explained it was akin to "brainwashing". I did understand THAT.
I was horrified! That was something done to prisoners of war or human guinea pigs!

He said that during that session, he was told to go home & live-out or (play-through) his fantasies of his step-daughter. He didn't have fantasies of her, to begin with, as far as I understand. He said when he did he ended up in a very bad situation with local law enforcement (Sheriff's Dept.) and ended up in the County Jail.

Later, his step-daughter who was dating the son of a Circuit Court Judge and she disclosed to him what really happened., that between her mom & her grandma & her, they sat my husband up. She had lied. The son related it all to his dad & my spouse was released from jail after about 6 weeks.

The whole thing had started as a way for the mom to get a new car from her mother & new clothes.

I later called & asked about the jail time & the clerk couldn't find anything.

That all happened in or about 84-85. The 1995 sentencing was based on the 85 issue that the Clerk of Court said she couldn't locate anything about. SO, he was sentenced as a "repeat offender" based on a non-existent prior. Aside from that (as I've mentioned) We were allowed to contract a house directly across the street from a fully functioning, operational Day Care called Melita Day. Our son went there & my spouse delivered him to his morning care & picked him up each time. IF he had a prior, why were we allowed to contract for deed right across from it? Does that make Sedalia LIABLE? Because our old house is less than the 1000 feet that is the law for "offenders" to be kept from such a place.

We got our house through people who not only were realtors but who were also very high profile in other ways, including socially. I am wondering if this "slipped through the cracks" then why, when it was realized weren't we (possibly) refunded our money (if possible) so we could find some other house? The daycare continued on there for quite a while after we moved there. No problems ever arose from our being there.

In the court files of 1995 that I got from the State Defender's office in 1997 after the case had closed, there was input from the above-named party, about that FLOODING technique she used. She had supplied it. Drawn beside the statement she made was a smiley face.
I feel that was totally not nice and definitely not CUTE!

My husband was put through a WORLD of aggravation & trouble due to that therapy.

What I DIDN'T see in the files was an "INFORMED CONSENT FORM". I wonder if there was one! He never mentioned one... I've seen NO mention of one."
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Additional Communication Between Claimant and Marge Harlan Hide
  • Oct 19, 2017, Claiming party added:

  • Replica slave cabin raises questions in Missouri community

    Jul. 26, 2016
    https://apnews.com/3be59b47d27343af85296eb8e3e1e5f8
    https://apnews.com/3be59b47d27343af85296eb8e3e1e5f8/replica-slave-cabin-raises-questions-missouri-community

    KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An 85-year-old white widow’s opening of a replica slave cabin to attract people to her Missouri black history library is drawing the ire of an activist who considers the site an “in-your-face reminder” about slavery.

    Schools aren’t making plans to visit, and civic clubs don’t want to hear presentations from Marge Harlan, a retired psychologist and school teacher who used about $175,000 of her own money to build and furnish the library in west-central Missouri’s Sedalia in hopes of salving race relations, The Kansas City Star reported.

    ...the Sedalia-Pettis County NAACP’s president, has decried the cabin, saying that a friend likened it to “building a replica of Auschwitz in a Jewish neighborhood.” Harlan was warned the cabin — tucked behind the library — would “be divisive” but pressed ahead anyway...

    “It’s being viewed negatively because most blacks don’t want to be reminded of the horrors of slavery,”...

  • Oct 19, 2017, Claiming party added:

  • Flooding (psychology)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooding_(psychology)

    "Flooding therapy is not for every individual, and the therapist will discuss with the patient the levels of anxiety they are prepared to endure during the session.[1] It may also be true that exposure is not for every therapist and therapists seem to shy away from use of the technique.[8]"

  • May 23, 2018, Claiming party added:

  • Sexual Violation of Patients by Physicians: A Mixed-Methods, Exploratory Analysis of 101 Cases
    First Published June 19, 2017
    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1079063217712217#

    tired of them being allowed to continue without being corrected as if beyond reproach!

What Claimant Wants Hide
1. Damages: FLOODING SESSION that led jail time Feb 14, 2018 $1,000,000.00
Cash total : $1,000,000.00
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