Psychiatrist Richard Pines loses license for sexual contact with his former foster child

July 31, 2013

On June 4, 2013, the Idaho Board of Medicine revoked the license of psychiatrist Richard J. Pines based, among other things, on: engaging in sexual conduct or sexual contact with a high-school senior who was Pines’ former foster child; asking to and performing naked massages of another of his former children, under the guise of a requirement of keeping his medical license and engaged in a three-year affair with a woman to whom he prescribed controlled substances.