I still have nightmares and get triggered when thinking about Dr. Rabin. In the mid-1980's my parents were engaged in a bitter divorce. My mother was mentally unstable, had violent rages, and repeatedly threatened to commit suicide. On multiple occasions she threatened to kill my sister and me as well so "that ba$tard won't win." She engaged in parental alienation and told us that our father was trying to have her killed and would have me and my sister sent to strangers where no one would ever find us just to spite her. This was extremely traumatizing in addition to being bullied and physically assaulted at school and sexually assaulted by an adult neighbor as I walked through a field. I was accused of deliberately causing trouble to cost her money in the settlement because I was 'taking my dad's side' and wanted to hurt her and my sister. I was taken to Dr. Rabin with the express purpose of showing that my father was the problem and as leverage for a larger settlement. Dr. Rabin should have recognized the signs of a mentally ill adult when they went in and spent the entire initial session trashing their child and telling him that they were the cause of all the problems in the house. Dr. Rabin told me that my mother expressly asked him to have me locked up in the 6th Floor Psych Ward of St. Joe's hospital in Elgin and that all he needed was for me to give him a reason. He sat there eating grapes and smacking his lips like a pig while I could not speak because I feared him. This went on for several sessions where the man threatened me to attempt to get me to talk. Dr. Rabin was aware of the sexual assault and told me I had somehow caused it because I was acting out - not because this man was a sexual predator who would eventually be convicted of predatory criminal sexual assault of another child. Dr. Rabin could see signs of trauma, including dissociation, yet he was focused on my behavior and not the causes behind it. My experience with Dr. Rabin was so traumatizing ​I was unable to trust a therapist again for nearly 30 years when I was finally diagnosed with C-PTSD. This man should not be allowed around vulnerable children.

Submitted June 24, 2021

pill pusher. is not a dr to help you. here are your meds, come back in 3 months, here is your Rx again. an awful doctor, if you can even say he is one.

Submitted March 11, 2016

I see one comment below about a serious medication error. I had the same issue, and was prescribed a toxic dose by Dr. Rabin (which he later denied). He had zero interest in hearing about my condition, and wanted me out of his office in less than five minutes. Terrible, incompetent; just a matter of time before he's hit with a big malpractice suit. Don't let it be you.

Submitted Aug. 21, 2014

I have written proof in medical records from a Dr. Barry Rabin that worked on Airlite in Elgin in 2001 that he committed a "Foul up" due to his denial of an extremely adverse reaction to a wrongly prescribed med. But rather than confessing his error to my family, the patient was made even sicker with more drugs (six, all with major drug interaction warnings). The patient was eventually weaned off all the meds. But suffered from a withdrawal induced issue, resulting in a hospitalization. And one of Rabin's coworkers at that hospital had the patient shipped to a Dr. V R Kuchipudi at a hospital over an hour from our home. V R Kuchipudi was recently arrested by the FBI for having patients who did not require medical care shipped to him, egregiously miss-medicating them, and performing unneeded surgeries on them. It appears, from all the patient's medical records, Dr. Rabin has other unethical doctors cover up his "Foul ups" with intentional and controversial iatrogenesis.

Submitted Oct. 31, 2013

I have seen this doctor for 2 years and he is the coldest most unfriendly person I have ever met. He seems depressed and like he needs psychiatric help. He does not seem like the right person to be helping people with problems of any kind. I'm going to try someone else.

Submitted March 7, 2012

this Dr is all business, he doesn't want to hear why you are there, and was belligerent about the few sentences I did say. furthermore, he barely let me sit in the office for less than 5 minutes and was up from his seat opening the door escorting me out. So much for mental health care being so readily available and helpful. that whole Linden Oaks clinic he runs could use some instruction on, "how to win friends(patients) and influence people!" As I certainly won't be bringing anymore revenue there.

Submitted May 11, 2011

Doesn't listen; interupts; wants u to tell him what med u want; rushes u (only has 5-15 min to spend with you); seems to have a high level of self importance; the only way to get thru to him is to be just as rude to him as he is to u

Submitted Feb. 2, 2010