Trauma Consultant Alan Pike testifies as to Kate's mental health after release of Amaral book.

[Redblossom]

Now that is precisely the point.

It was rather like employing metardo3 to find Madeleine, a company who had no relevant experience, other than for industrial spying.

Quite bizarre, especially when their employees were given a bunch of cuddlecats to squeeze whenever they felt under pressure/despondent...wtf what all that about?


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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-510321/McCanns-wasting-fund-cash-Madeleine-hunt-Morocco.html

[Redblossom]

 The McCanns, both doctors from Rothley, Leics, claim Amaral's repeated insistence that their daughter is dead has stopped people looking for her. The lawsuit states: "Madeleine has been deprived of the possibility of a fair and adequate investigation into her disappearance, putting her moral and physical integrity at serious risk."

It says Gerry and Kate have been "totally destroyed from a moral, social, ethical, emotional and family point of view, beyond the pain that the absence of their eldest daughter causes them".

http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/press/27JULY9/MIRROR_12_07_09.htm

That is a concoction of client/ lawyers cahones and nonsense

[Estuarine]

Thank you very much for clarifying that for me.

I wonder why the Judge has asked for documents about the WOC issue?

Are the people who claimed that these were delaying tactics standing by that assertion now they are aware that it was the Mccanns who have asked for a postponement?

Oh look a flying pig

[Wonderfulspam]

That is a concoction of client/ lawyers cahones and nonsense

No Red,

Just one look at them  & you can see how totally destroyed they are, morally, ethically, socially & emotionally beyond the pain that their daughters disappearance has caused them.

[Redblossom]

No Red,

Just one look at them  & you can see how totally destroyed they are, morally, ethically, socially & emotionally beyond the pain that their daughters disappearance has caused them.

No thanks.....



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How that woman can say she hopes Mr Amaral feels misery and fear for what hes done to her daughter is beyond most normal and rational persons  comprehension

Then again in interviews I wondered about KM s mind.....when asked about the dogs, she responded with, I believe most people are good people



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Didnt take her long to say what she really thought though two yrs later in her book!

 

[pathfinder73]

No Red,

Just one look at them  & you can see how totally destroyed they are, morally, ethically, socially & emotionally beyond the pain that their daughters disappearance has caused them.

I was wondering who posted that letter in Amsterdam? 

[Estuarine]

No Red,

Just one look at them  & you can see how totally destroyed they are, morally, ethically, socially & emotionally beyond the pain that their daughters disappearance has caused them.

I thought there was a super duper injunction preventing publication of photos of them looking happy? clearly these are lookylikies.

[Redblossom]

I thought there was a super duper injunction preventing publication of photos of them looking happy? clearly these are lookylikies.

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/309935/McCann-fears-for-twins


well some reporters, see last but one paragraph are under the impression KM never smiled in public since 2007


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[Sherlock Holmes]

Only a mental health professional has the authority to speak on issues as serious as suicidal tendancies/thoughts 

Alan Pike  is not a mental health professional  ...  he not a health professional at  all  (  not even a psychologist,  as pointed out  in court  ) 

His observations about the state of Kate's mental health were outside his professional remit and therefore of no value in terms of expertise

Correct.

From Linkedin and elsewhere it is clear that he has an impressive CV, but he is not a psychiatrist, (or even a qualified psychologist) and is therefore unqualified to speak in a 'professional' capacity about Kate McCann. He may have a lot of experience in trauma and counselling which certainly makes him better qualified to speak on KM than the average person, but that's far the same as speaking in professional terms.

The question is why didn't KM provide a psychiatrist as a witness in a matter so fundamental to her building of the court case?

[Cariad]

Correct.

From Linkedin and elsewhere it is clear that he has an impressive CV, but he is not a psychiatrist, (or even a qualified psychologist) and is therefore unqualified to speak in a 'professional' capacity about Kate McCann. He may have a lot of experience in trauma and counselling which certainly makes him better qualified to speak on KM than the average person, but that's far the same as speaking in professional terms.

The question is why didn't KM provide a psychiatrist as a witness in a matter so fundamental to her building of the court case?

I suggest the answer to that is she doesn't have one.

[Sherlock Holmes]

I suggest the answer to that is she doesn't have one.

Well exactly. Perhaps she didn't feel the need to go to a psychiatrist, but feeling suicidal she ought to have done.

If those around her saw that she was suicidal, why didn't they (presumably) try to persuade her?

It would also have been an idea to build a relationship with a psychiatrist in order to have a professional witness for court as to her mental state. No such relationship was forged.

[Jean-Pierre]

Well exactly. Perhaps she didn't feel the need to go to a psychiatrist, but feeling suicidal she ought to have done.

If those around her saw that she was suicidal, why didn't they (presumably) try to persuade her?

It would also have been an idea to build a relationship with a psychiatrist in order to have a professional witness for court as to her mental state. No such relationship was forged.

I dont think that in 2007 they would have anticipated needing a psychiatrist as an expert witness in a libel trial. 

[Redblossom]

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[Sherlock Holmes]

I dont think that in 2007 they would have anticipated needing a psychiatrist as an expert witness in a libel trial.

Not in 2007, no, but since then.

The McCanns are claiming (amongst other things) that KM's mental health has been tested to the point of feeling suicidal. That was a much more recent development.

I am also thinking ahead a bit - as, presumably, are the McCanns. Is this trial the last time they are likely to appear in court?

Having a mental health professional to attest to one's psychological state is important for anyone 'on trial' for whatever reason. The McCanns have young twins in their care, for example, and could find themselves in the position of having to defend their psychological health with regard to looking after them..

Various reasons why being in regular contact with a psychiatrist would be important in the McCanns' position.

[Redblossom]

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