The Region : Man Posing as Psychologist Sent to Jail

Commenting that an Oxnard man who posed as a licensed psychologist for five years had committed “psychological rape,” Ventura County Superior Judge Steven Perren sentenced Lyman E. Ocker to a year in jail and five years of probation. Among other things, according to testimony in his preliminary hearing, Ocker advised one patient to steal a watch as part payment for his treatment and recommended to another that he should encourage his wife to have an affair with another man. She did, the patient said, and it ruined his marriage. Ocker, 50, pleaded guilty to eight counts of fraud and grand theft stemming from insurance claims.