VEKQUIN'S ETHICS
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GENERAL ETHOS
You are guaranteed anonymity and absolute confidentiality during the entire process with me. When reading my ethics and policies, it is important to remember that I am not a government-regulated clinician. This means that I am free to establish my own code of ethics, which is based on a very high regard for privacy of personal information. I believe that the government and private corporations such as insurance companies should stay out of the personal lives of individuals. If I were a clinician I would be required by the government to collect information on you such as your name, social security number, etc., but because I work as a philosophical practitioner, not a clinical practitioner, I don't have to follow the privacy-violating government regulations that clinical practitioners are ethically bound to when they take their licenses, certifications or registrations. For now, the government does not regulate the practice of philosophy, but it will probably only be a matter of time before it does (and that is when I will move out of this country because I will never agree to the government's presposterous demands that would put my clients' privacy in jeopardy.)
To read more about how the government is making a regular practice of invading the privacy of people who seek counseling psychology or psychiatry for emotional problems, read the excellent articles written by Thomas Szasz, M.D., a pioneer and courageous spokesperson for the movement to get the government out of mental health care. His observations and suggestions for reform come from working as a psychiatrist for 40 years:
szasz.com.
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My Policy of 'Absolute Anonymity'
I handle my case files in a way that ensures everyone to remain anonymous while I take notes and build case studies, which are crucial aspects of my theoretical and statistical development. In order to carry out an analysis, I don't need to know your legal name, what you do for a living, where you work, your social security number, etc. I don't need any identifying information on you at all, because there is no one to whom I am required to report your information. I don't work for an insurance company, a governmental agency, a hospital, an academic institution nor any other institution. I am a solitary practitioner, free from the constraints of governmental control systems, thus I can offer my analytic work with a higher set of standards than what anyone working in any government regulated field can legally offer.
I assign a case number to each file rather than a name, and I do not ask questions like "what kind of work do you do?" because I consider such questions to be too prying, and they are irrelevant to the kind of analytic work that I do. I focus entirely on the analysis of fetishes, fantasies, fixations, obsessions, compulsions, etc., which themselves contain enough information for me to discover their reasons for existence and persistence. Though I never ask, people sometimes do discuss their work in context with their emotional problem because there is often a spill-over, but this information is always entirely voluntary and I always make it clear that I don't need to know anything about you that changes you from being anonymous to being someone specific. My intention during the analytic process is to make sure that you remain very comfortable and open during my questioning process, and this is accomplished much better in an anonymous exchange. I analyze the data you give me, but not in a cold, robotic way. My process is very intuitive and totally non-judgmental.
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Money-Back Guarantee
I conduct my analyses with a money-back guarantee. If you don't feel like my analysis helped you, I will give you your money back. I believe very strongly that this should be standard practice for all psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, consultants, and therapists of all types. I believe that it how it 'should' be, but as it stands now, no one working in any clinical field offers a money-back guarantee, which to me is unacceptable. I have heard countless stories from my clients about spending thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars trying to find someone who can help them, and never finding anyone. I also have three friends who have gone through several years of classic psychoanalysis and found it to be a waste of time and money. One friend told me that she spent $75,000 on a Freudian analyst and did not get any benefit from it whatsoever; nothing at all; her analysis was all just a big waste of time and money. Another friend is a psychiatrist and has been going to a Jungian analyst three or four days per week, for one or two hours each day, for eight years, and has gotten next to no benefit for the time and money spent. The third friend went to a Freudian analyst for a few years during adolesence and can't recall a single conversation from the event because it was so dull, lifeless, boring and pointless (his parents made him go because it was fashionable for the children of wealthy families to go to psychoanalysts).
Aside from anecdotal accounts, in my research on healing modalities, I have also read many accounts of people who've experienced the same classic rip-off in the field of mental health care. I too have personally experienced this failure several times myself. Over the years, I have visited various different types of psychologists and therapists and only found one who could understand me even on a basic level (the others were floating around in some bizarre theoretical bubble that did not apply to me and caused them to not really be able to see me at all). I have not added up all the money I have wasted on all of these practitioners, because if I did, I'm sure I would be very angry. In any case, I think that clinical practitioners should be held responsible when they fail to deliver the goods that they promise they will, but even though the government regulates all the clinical fields, it still does not hold clinicians accountable for their failures. I believe that those who deal with the physical and mental health of people should be required to offer their services with a money-back guarantee. Especially those who hold doctoral degrees, because they are supposedly 'experts' in their fields, and if they fail in their work, they should not be entitled to the extraordinarily high fees that they charge.
My money-back guarantee applies only to the analysis phase of the process, not to the information-gathering phase. However, you may quit the entire process at any time; you are not bound to proceed if you do not feel comfortable in the process. You are also not bound to answer any certain questions that you simply don't want to talk about. I will not hold it against you; it is perfectly fine; it only means that I will have less information on you, thus my analysis will be a little less thorough and deep than it otherwise would have been. The information-gathering segment is the first part of the process, which takes one hour in the basic analysis, or two to three hours in the intermediate analysis, and is not covered under my money-back guarantee (unless you quit the process, I will refund all of your unused paid time), but everything that occurs after the information gathering segment, no matter how long or short we talk, is covered under my guarantee of satisfaction.
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