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The psychological evaluation that Dr. Sczechowicz gave me and my now ex-​wife 4 years ago was not only maliciously and blatantly misleading, but it was without question the greatest miscarriage of justice that I have ever experienced in my life. I literally suffered PTSD from the words that Dr. S wrote and to this day I consider my psych eval with Dr. S the most painful experience of my life.
Please allow me to tell my story…
After years of escalating emotional abuse, I reached the point that I could no longer take it and filed for divorce. Rather than take up room here writing about my ex-wife’s condition, I ask that you please read a description that I wrote at the time on psychforums:
Based on my testimony at our first hearing, the court ordered that my wife and I undergo psychological evaluations with Dr. Sczechowicz.
When I first called Dr. S, he said, «I want you to know that I will read anything you want me to read. Some people have me read file cabinets worth of stuff… If you do that, I’ll charge you more but I will read it» I remember my exact response was, «you know what Dr. Sczechowicz, I think I’ll take you up on your offer.»
I assumed he was inviting me to write my side of the story, so that’s exactly what I did.
Over the course of the next 2 or 3 weeks I wrote and wrote and ended up with a paper describing in detail my wife’s psychological condition (which I now know to be antisocial personality disorder/​psychopathy). The paper consisted of each trait, followed by a concrete example of that trait which could be verified by talking to our marriage counselor.
The psych eval consisted of an interview with Dr. S followed by a series of psychological tests made up of over 1000 multiple choice questions.
Dr. S also had me and my ex sign a release form so that he could talk to our marriage counselor, who would have backed up everything I said about my ex.
At the beginning of our interview, I handed Dr. S the paper I had written about my ex at which point he asked me to tell him my side of the story. I said, «well everything I have to say is in the paper that I wrote» and his response was, «tell me something that isn’t in the paper.» The only thing I could think of was a minor issue that I had which was that my ex and her teenage daughter and our then infant son all slept in the same bed together. It was not that big of a deal (that’s why I didn’t include it in my paper), but it was the only thing I could think of that I hadn’t already mentioned in the paper.
Several months later, we received our test results. The first part of each of our psych evals were the results of the tests (which is a computer print out and not written by Dr. S).
Mine was as follows (summarized but word for word):
The husband took the test in a defensive manner and as such he may be unwilling to admit to many personal faults. However, the husband is essentially well-​functioning with no major personality disturbances and any troublesome symptoms he may be exhibiting are probably situational and transient in nature.
As far as taking the test in a defensive manner there were many questions like this:
Sometimes when I am angry, I feel like smashing things: true or false
If you put true you look like you have anger problems, but if you put false, you look like you aren’t willing to admit to personal faults!
Here are my ex-wife’s test results, again summarized but word for word:
The wife’s test results are consistent with test results of individuals that are hostile, paranoid, suspicious, argumentative, unable to «forgive and forget,» tend to blame others for their difficulties, and «prognosis for therapeutic intervention is poor because these individuals are likely to rationalize much of the time.»
It also said (this is important):
it should be noted that the wife did not answer all of the questions on the test. THIS MAY RESULT IN AN UNDERESTIMATE OF THE PROBLEMS MEASURED BY THE AFFECTED SCALES.
Slam dunk, right?
WRONG…
Dr. Sczechowicz’s conclusion:
The wife has issues with anger and the husband is controlling and they are EQUALLY TO BLAME FOR THEIR DIFFICULTIES.
Furthermore, he did not speak to our marriage counselor as promised, and in the psych eval, he said my ONLY complaint about my wife was that she was sleeping in the same bed as her daughter and our son.
WHAT!!!
He also referred to my paper about my ex as a «tome» (derogatory term for book) and said, «Apparently the husband has no understanding of what the production of such a booklet says about him and his personality make-​up.»
BUT I WROTE THAT «BOOKLET» BECAUSE I THOUGHT DR. SCZECHOWICZ HAD INVITED ME TO WRITE MY SIDE OF THE STORY WHEN HE SAID, «I WILL READ ANYTHING YOU WANT ME TO READ»!!
The effect of Dr. Sczechowicz’s evaluation on my case was absolutely devastating and I will probably never fully recover from what Dr. Sczechowicz did to me and my son.