A psychologist who believes in clairvoyance has been suspended by his professional association after sending a young patient to a medium.
Jean Pierre Allaire was counselling a 13-year old Trois Rivieres girl who reported seeing people that others could not. He told the girl she should go to the medium to find out whether she has a psychic gift. He also told her not to tell her psychiatrist about what she was seeing and hearing because that might lead to an increase in the anti-psychotic medications she was taking, which were making her sleepy.
The Journal de Montreal reports Allaire also recommended the same medium to another patient, a 34-year old woman who was terminally ill and was struggling to accept her diagnosis.
The Quebec Order of Psychologists suspended Allaire for three months and fined him $2,000.