Violence and "confabulation"
Six years after that congressional investigation, taxpayers in both the United States and Canada should be more than a little concerned that the brain injury rehab industry is still a thriving, multi-billion dollar business -- and that its corruption seems to know no national boundaries. Powerful lobby groups like the Brain Injury Association in the United States (formerly the National Head Injury Foundation) and the Ontario Brain Injury Association (OBIA) have successfully convinced government agencies and health insurance providers that brain injury is not a disability; rather, it requires a lifetime of expensive psychiatric "treatment."
In brain injury rehab, beatings are termed "restraints," psychiatric drugging is called "treatment" and claims of abuse by brain injury survivors are dismissed as psychotic ramblings.
One who dismissed the results of CCHR's and Freedom's Canadian investigation was psychologist Dr. Barry Willer, professor of psychiatry at State University of New York at Buffalo. Willer denied claims of abuse by former Ontario patients who were hospitalized at a Texas facility called Tangram Rehabilitation Network.
But it is more than likely that Willer's indignance stems from his documented connections with the principals of the Brain Injury Association, including Tangram's owner, neuropsychiatrist Stanley Seaton. Willer is also the consulting psychologist at Anagram, an Ontario brain injury facility, which, by Willer's own admission, is modeled after and closely connected to Tangram.
"These rehabilitation programs were considered the most effective by the international rehabilitation community," said Willer.
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