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CBC
30-07-2025
- Health
- CBC
London psychologist who gave patients ketamine faces disciplinary hearing
A London psychologist who used the psychedelic drug ketamine to treat clients faces a disciplinary hearing on Wednesday before Ontario's College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts. The college issued an interim order in August of last year to suspended Tatiana Zdyb's certificate of registration following an investigation into allegations of professional misconduct. The college's website currently lists three separate disciplinary hearing notices against Zdyb involving allegations of misconduct, including an allegation of sexually abusing a patient. Other allegations the college is investigating include a claim Zdyb failed to be truthful with clients and an allegation that she failed to give "competent care." It's unclear if Wednesday's hearing will address some of the allegations or address all three hearing notices. Different business names CBC News reached out to Zdyb for comment on Friday. After initially agreeing to an interview, she later declined to comment until she could speak with her lawyer. Zdyb has in the past talked publicly about her clinic becoming one of the first in southwestern Ontario to use the psychedelic drug ketamine to treat people with treatment-resistant depression. Because she is not a medical doctor, she only administered and conducted the therapy, while a physician prescribed the medication. There's a lot of hype about ketamine therapy, but is it safe? 12 months ago Ketamine is a powerful and potentially deadly drug, but some say, if used properly, it can be an effective treatment for mental illness. The National looks at how a Canadian clinic is using the anesthetic for therapy and asks the experts about the latest research. Ketamine is a fast-acting anesthetic used in medical or veterinary surgery. Selling, possessing or producing it in Canada is illegal unless it's authorized for medical or scientific purposes. In more recent years, it's become a tool used to treat severe depression that's been otherwise untreatable. Zdyb has operated under different business names in the past including the MindSetting Institute, Audacity Health and Zdyb Centre for Health Promotion. A search of her name leads to this web page with a single paragraph that says the Zdyb Centre for Health Promotion is now closed. Zdyb's LinkedIn page says she's been a part-time lecturer with King's University College since 2020. In an email to CBC News, the school said Zdyb taught part-time in the department of psychology but "does not have an active employment relationship with the university." Settled lawsuit Lawyer John Nicholson of the law firm Cohen Highley represented a former patient in a lawsuit against Zdyb that was settled. Nicholson said his client received ketamine during psychotherapy sessions with Zdyb while seeking treatment for mild depression in 2020. Nicholson's client's identity is covered by a publication ban. She is identified in court documents only as "A.A." Nicholson said A.A.'s condition deteriorated after the ketamine treatment and later became worse when Zdyb suggested she use psilocybin, also known as magic mushrooms. "Her depression became worse and she found herself unable to return to work," said Nicholson. "Zdyb did not know what she was doing with these very powerful medications." Also, Nicholson said Zdyb entered into "an intimate and personal relationship" with A.A. while she was receiving treatment, a violation of the college's rules for patient care. Nicholson said his client's lawsuit against Zdyb was settled last year, though he wouldn't reveal the terms of the settlement.
National Post
16-06-2025
- Politics
- National Post
Jordan Peterson: At long last, my re-education 'coach' has been chosen
I don't know if Canadians have the interest or the patience to submit themselves yet another time to another chapter of the interminable saga of the conflict that I have been embroiled in for what seems like forever with the relatively newly renamed Ontario College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts. I know I'm sick and tired of the whole affair, having moved out of the country in no small part in consequence of the prejudice, ideologically-motivated shenanigans, false morality and petty power mongering of that august body. Article content Article content I ran afoul of the worthies who run that incomprehensible organization for reasons that are not sufficiently clear to me and appear to be even more opaque to them. I'll summarize the situation as best I can, nonetheless, so that we are all on the same page, insofar as that is even possible. I was charged by my professional organization, responsible for ensuring the public is properly served by psychologists, with something approximating unprofessional conduct for my behaviour on social media — particularly on X, when it was still Twitter. Here is a summary of my crimes (and I say crimes because the legal cost of breaking these rules is high, the punishment severe — loss of my professional license and the disgrace associated with that — and lawyers and the courts are almost certain to be involved). Article content Article content I objected to an actress who was subjected to the entirely barbarous and unforgivable although voluntary removal of her breasts advertising that fact proudly to her multitude of fans, many of whom were exactly the kind of star-worshipping and therefore highly influenceable young women maximally susceptible to the dangerous social contagion that is camouflaged under the evil rubric of 'gender affirming care.' Since I made that objection, none other than the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom has decided that there is a fundamental and inalienable difference between men and women. Furthermore, that country and many others (including the Netherlands where the horror originated) have concluded that there is little evidence that such 'care' produces anything but terrible harm, and have banned such procedures for minors. In addition, incontrovertible evidence has emerged that the organizations who pushed for the widespread adoption of such appalling treatment and described it as a moral and scientific necessity were corrupt, unqualified, manipulative and even sadistic ideologues pushing a pathological falsehood. Article content Article content No crime there, apparently, on my part, let's say, with the wisdom of retrospection — although in Canada a nurse, Amy Hamm of British Columbia, recently had her life destroyed (that is, she was sanctioned by her professional college and then fired by her employer) for having the temerity to support the world's most famous author, J.K. Rowling, in the latter's insistence that trans activists and their idiot movement of narcissists and psychopaths pose a genuine danger to sanity, women and society. Article content What else was deemed evidence of my guilt? I criticized our dearly departed leader, Justin Trudeau, for his progressive idiocy, and threw in a former staff member of his and an Ottawa city councillor for good measure. They all richly deserved the criticism and much more and had worked diligently and for a long time to earn it. Article content I pointed out on the world's most famous podcast that the economic models of doom that the climate apocalypse mongers have been foisting on the public and demoralizing young people for decades with were a pack of antihuman lies, founded on shaky climate 'models,' which (1) do not indicate an emergency even by the admission of the modellers themselves and pointing out (2) that models are hypotheses, not data. That criticism is looking pretty good now, too, as Germany suffers tremendous economic decline in consequence of the green idiocy; as the U.K. and the U.S. have abandoned much of the Net Zero moralizing; as even Canadians, shocked by Trump, have realized that we will languish and perish without the fossil fuels the bloody deluded greens have worked so hard and so utterly counterproductively to demonize. So no crime there, either, ladies and gentlemen.
