E.T. Barker, M.D., D.Psych, F.R.C.P. (C)
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Dr. Barker is a forensic psychiatrist who has assessed and treated
dangerous mentally ill offenders in the maximum security division of the
Mental Health Centre, Penetanguishene, Ontario since 1965. He has been called
as an expert witness by the Supreme Court of Ontario on more than 200
occasions to give testimony on the issues of insanity and dangerousness, and
has been invited to other countries to lecture on the management of dangerous
patients. He has a small private practise treating dissociative-disordered
adolescents. Since 1975, Dr. Barker has been spending over half his professional time on efforts at prevention of emotional abuse and neglect of infants and toddlers. He conducts his work through The Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and has edited that organization's Journal Empathic Parenting since 1978. Along with many other activities on behalf of primary prevention, he was called as an expert witness to the Senate Sub-Committee on Childhood Experiences as Causes of Criminal Behaviour (1978); participated in the National Multidisciplinary Symposium on Children's Rights (1983); the Fifth International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect (1984); a CBC National Television program on "The Family in the 80's" (1986); the Centre for Legislative Exchange (USA and Canada) on the "Social Causes of Crime" (1989); and the Standing Committee on Justice and the Solicitor General regarding Crime Prevention (1992).
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