This woman recently entered the struggle at EMHC against Gus, a patient for whom I advocate. Gus is an incessant complainer against the misbehavior of staff at EMHC and the injustice of the plantation culture. As best I can tell, he's completely right. He's not delusional or paranoid. He may be hyper-focused in a way that doesn't always work to his advantage, but no worse than that. He retains a sense of justice that I especially admire, because the whole mechanism of the plantation, the whole purpose of forced psychiatry, means to beat that out of him, forever.
Stoyka Meyer is a part-time contracted clinician at EMHC, like her associate, psychiatrist Robert Sharpe. The two of them seem to be a part-time contracted team, with the common goal recently, to defeat Gus. They need to convince other patients not to listen to Gus, and they need to convince other staff to write bad things in Gus' chart. Gus is dangerous. He takes notes. He knows about OIG Rule 50.
Stoyka Meyer and psychiatric dictator Robert Sharpe have been persistently threatening Gus: if he doesn't do the things they tell him to do, exactly the way they tell him to do them, he'll remain enslaved on the EMHC plantation until his Thiem date (which is not very soon). It is illegal in various ways. for a state employed mental health professional to threaten an involuntary "patient" like this. It kind of amazes me that these two characters are stupid enough to continue doing it.
Stoyka Meyer's latest innovation is to insist that Gus should do a sex offender program in a way that she apparently dreamed up herself (i.e., as an individual counseling modality rather than in the group format that it was designed and intended for). Gus only asked for any justification beyond Stoyka's arbitrary invention, and Stoyka flatly told him that if he didn't comply she would say he was refusing recommended treatment, and he would be involuntarily confined for the maximum possible period. It was a clear threat, an obvious repetition of the same pattern of threats that Gus has been subjected to from his "treatment" team since it has been headed by psychiatric dictator Robert Sharpe.
I have no idea whether Stoyka has some vested interest in an individual counseling mode, as opposed to a group mode, for the particular sex offender program that Gus was considering. Stoyka seems to work for a group called Associates in Psychiatry & Counseling, P.C., at 2050 Larkin Avenue, Suite 101 & 202, Elgin, IL 60123; phone (847) 697-2400. I don't notice anything on their website that explicitly offers individual counseling formats to substitute for standard sex offender group programs. But who knows? The threat to Gus seems odd... maybe there is some reason other than mere meanness, or orders from Robert Sharpe.
It’s not that Stoyka isn’t qualified to deliver sex offender treatment, she reportedly is certified for that, although I don’t know what the requirements are or who such certification comes from. (That’s a quick online research project, perhaps.) It’s just that the refusal to explain to Gus anything about why he should do a treatment program differently than how it is usually done (i.e., as individual counseling instead of in a group) makes no sense. Gus gets no explanation, which seems like it could come easily, he just gets the threat: “Do as you’re told and shut up, or you’ll never get out of here.”
It’s like Gus is the enemy, he must be fought and defeated. He’s "mentally ill" or subhuman, not rational. Stoyka can't really reason with him, she can only hope to control him. She's the overseer and he's the recalcitrant slave, of whom an example must be made. Otherwise there might be a rebellion.
EMHC is a plantation, not a hospital. That explains it.
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