1. 28 December 2010
State of Maine
Department of Professional and Financial Regulation
Office of Licensing & Registration/Complaints & Investigation Division
35 State House Station
August Maine 04333-0035
Dear Cathy Newman;
Responding to your letter of 9 November 2010, attached here; no your letter does not answer my
concerns. My concern is simple; nowhere in the world, outside Stalin's Soviet Union, and now
Maine have psychologists and other mental health professionals been allowed by the State to use
their licenses as political weapons.
As I have outlined to the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, Dr. Carol
Kabacoff is grossly misusing her license to support the goals of an attorney who has vowed to
take my child from me. In order for Dr. Kabacoff to diagnose me as "severely mentally ill" she
would need to prove verifiable patterns of behavior that meet a checklist in the DSM IV. To date,
she has not done that. Moreover, every other mental health professional involved in this case
have stated they have no diagnosis or concerns about my mental health.
Moreover, Dr. Kabacoff has routinely ignored verifiable patterns of abuse, violence, theft and
lies (all in police arrest records) by my daughter's father, Igor Malenko, whom Mr. Waxman (his
lawyer) is so close to. The Board sanctioned a psychologist, Gay Galleher, in Bath Maine for
ignoring domestic abuse of a father (and in this case there was not even domestic violence arrest
record or protection orders as there are in my case). As a direct result of the psychologist's
misuse of her license the abusive father gained sole custody of the child. The Board sanctioned
this psychologist—only after the child had been lost to the protective mother.
The Board cannot say in one case that it is a misuse of the license to purposely and with intent
ignore violence and in another case, mine, say that Dr. Kabacoff has done nothing wrong. Even
the Board's own decisions offer proof that Dr. Kabacoff is receiving special protection for using
her license as a political weapon to meet Mr. Waxman's goals.
Gov. LePage has promised transparency and accountability. I trust he will begin by appointing a
Commissioner who will hold Board of Psychologists, who serve at the Governor's pleasure, to
higher standards. I also trust that Gov LePage will act to replace a Board that continues to
sanction mental health professionals in Maine using their license, as Dr. Kabacoff is doing, to
meet the political or legal goals rather than diagnosis health.
Sincerely,
Dr. Lori Handrahan
Sorrento Maine 04677
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