By Kelly O'Connell ——Bio and Archives--March 31, 2021
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Psychiatric Psychosis:
Extreme Leftist media strumpet Bandy Lee was finally removed from Yale for repeatedly and publicly mischaracterizing President Trump. She specialized in giving misleading testimony on topics on which she had no apparent expertise. Despite having never met him, Lee frequently testified of Trump's unfitness for office and his supposed psychosis. This is a grave violation of psychiatric ethics, finally called out by Alan Dershowitz after she also attacked him for having a 'Group Psychosis' with Trump.
Unexamined Yet Diagnosed:
Bandy Lee claims she will never stop telling her "truth" about Trump. But having never met Trump, let alone examined him, what is her expertise to diagnose the former POTUS? Actually, Bandy Lee doesn't have any apparent expertise in this exact topic. Born and raised in the Bronx, Lee claims to practice medicine with 'social responsibility.' As a youth she volunteered in Harlem to tutor homeless Black children. Lee received her M.D. and Masters of Divinity from Yale. She's an admitted practitioner of leftist Christianity. Her academic publications focus on violence and prison reform. Believe it, or not – Lee doesn't have a degree in psychology, as normally expected before calling oneself a 'psychiatrist.' Has Lee ever had a private psychiatric practice or has she even been trained as such?On occasion psychiatrists are asked for an opinion about an individual who is in the light of public attention or who has disclosed information about himself/herself through public media. In such circumstances, a psychiatrist may share with the public his or her expertise about psychiatric issues in general. However, it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement.NPR recalled this rule's formation:
The Goldwater rule is so named for a 1964 article in Fact magazine that said, "1,189 Psychiatrists say Goldwater is Psychologically Unfit to be President!" Around half of psychiatrists surveyed said they did not believe the Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater, was psychologically fit to serve, calling him "unpredictable" "emotionally unstable" and "a dangerous lunatic!" Goldwater lost the presidency to incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson but won a lawsuit after suing the magazine for libel. In 1973, the APA implemented the Goldwater rule to try to prevent the same thing from happening again.
"Dr. Bandy Lee...has sued Yale University after she was not reappointed. Her federal lawsuit claims breach of contract, lack of good faith and wrongful termination and states she was fired for her public statements about Trump and his "inner circle," including attorney Alan Dershowitz."Not Terminated yet Gone: Whether Lee was 'terminated' is debatable, yet she revealed her highly partisan motivations by essentially admitting she was not diagnosing anyone, let alone a remotely viewed politician. Lee admitted such by email:
"As a violence scholar, I projected that Donald Trump was dangerous, not as much for specific acts of violence but for the groundwork he would lay for a culture of violence that would then give rise to epidemics of suicides, homicides, and mass violence. Although his election in the first place served as a barometer for a poor state of collective mental health, once in office and being kept there, he vastly exacerbated and legitimized violence."Was Lee ever a Working Psychiatrist? Lee mischaracterized Trump in countless interviews that he was a "psychotic" person when she had no apparent expertise to do so. Further, even if Lee was a working psychiatrist, she did no examination of Trump to draw fair conclusions. She also wrote books titled, Trump's Mental State, and Trump's Mind, America's Soul. In fact, Yale was correct to remove Lee from teaching when she misused Yale's imprimatur for its cachet, and seems to falsely insinuate psychiatric expertise when her only academic focus appears to be prisoners.
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A Yale professor of forensic psychiatry has diagnosed me as suffering from "psychosis" for expressing legal views on the Constitutional rights of President Donald Trump. Dr. Bandy Lee has never met me, never examined me, never seen my medical records, and never spoken to anyone close to me. Yet she is prepared to offer a illness of "psychosis" which she attributes to my being one of President Trump's "followers." (I voted for Hillary Clinton and am a liberal Democrat.) Indeed, Dr. Lee went even further, diagnosing "the severity and spread of 'shared psychosis' among just about all of Donald Trump's followers." Nor does she seem to be using these psychiatric terms as political metaphors, dangerous as that would be. She is literally claiming that we are mentally ill and our views should be considered symptoms of our illness, rather than as legitimate ideas. Publicly offering "professional opinions" or diagnoses in the absence of a psychiatric examination, is a violation of psychiatric ethics and the rules of the American Psychiatric Association. According to that esteemed organization, "it is unethical for a psychiatrist to render a professional opinion to the media about a public figure unless the psychiatrist has examined the person..." Dr. Lee has a history of such unethical conduct. She previously diagnosed President Trump as being psychotic. Now she is doubling down accusing me of having a "shared psychosis" with President Trump, and having "wholly taken on Trump's symptoms by contagion."Media # Hates America: Bandy Lee is only the most vocal anti-Trump mental health worker. Finally, a few anti-Trumpers are reaping what they sowed with gusto and abandon, unafraid of censure. When Lee wrote of Dershowitz, "he has wholly taken on Trump’s symptoms by contagion" as a "shared psychosis," she really attacked all good Americans who supported Trump. We still yearn to see Trump back in office to clean up another gigantic liberal mess – this time created by the genuinely demented Biden and his anti-American crew, as they try to destroy everything that used to make America great and cast the world into new Leftist chaos and existential peril.
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Kelly O’Connell is an author and attorney. He was born on the West Coast, raised in Las Vegas, and matriculated from the University of Oregon. After laboring for the Reformed Church in Galway, Ireland, he returned to America and attended law school in Virginia, where he earned a JD and a Master’s degree in Government. He spent a stint working as a researcher and writer of academic articles at a Miami law school, focusing on ancient law and society. He has also been employed as a university Speech & Debate professor. He then returned West and worked as an assistant district attorney. Kelly is now is a private practitioner with a small law practice in New Mexico.