Fired prof. loses bid to return to Yale after tweeting Trump voters had "shared psychosis"

Dr. Bandy Lee, a former professor of psychiatry at Yale failed to win her job back after she sued over her firing sparked by a tweet that Trump supporters suffer "shared psychosis" and claiming she had a "duty of care" to warn the public about Trump's "mental instability."

Lee filed a complaint last year claiming her free speech rights had been violated and her professional obligations to warn the public about Trump's "mental instability" while his supporters suffer from a "shared psychosis."

Having not performed a psychological assessment on Trump or all of his supporters, it seems that Lee is suffering from grandiose narcissism, but having not met her and put her through an assessment battery, I would not state that as fact. What I can state as a psychotherapist is that Lee misused her credentials and unethically diagnosed former President Trump and all of his supporters while having never performed the proper procedures to do so. Worse that this is the fact that she made public a psychiatric diagnosis on Twitter that seemed intentionally meant to stigmatize everyone who voted for Trump.

US District Judge Sarah Merriman dismissed the suit on Tuesday, siding with the university, saying it had the right to not reappoint Lee, a voluntary professor, after losing confidence in her professionalism following her controversial tweet, the Hartford Courant reported.

The tweet at the root of the lawsuit was posted on January 2, 2020, where she also targeted Alan Dershowitz, a member of Trump's legal team. Lee added that lawyer Alan Dershowitz, a member of Trump's legal team, had 'wholly taken on Trump's symptoms by contagion.' She basically diagnosed him as psychotic without having ever met him.

Lee has been a vocal critic of Trump for year. In a 2017 conference at Yale that resulted in the publication of her book, 'The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President.'

Again, having not met him for an assessment interview but based solely on his public persona.

In it, Lee suggested that Trump's mental health was undermining not only the nation's mental health, but also served as a threat to democracy.

Everything is a threat to democracy as you heard in Biden's speech on Sept. 1st. But the democracy the left refers to when they use that term is "mob rule." Everyone else in "flyover country" can whistle.

Lee also sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2019 claiming Trump was showing 'signs of delusion' amid his first impeachment inquiry.

Yale argued she repeatedly violated the American Psychiatric Association's Goldwater Rule, which states that it is unethical for psychiatrists to comment on a public figure's mental faculties in an official capacity unless granted permission or after a medical examination, neither of which she did.

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Dr. John Krystal, the chair of Yale's Psychiatry Department, warned Lee to stop tweeting about Trump's mental health and that of his inner circle and supporters, by she couldn't help herself and continued to do so until she was let go.

If this is not a case of TDS [Trump Derangement Syndrome] I don't know what is, but having not actually met her and assessed her, I can only hazard a guess that she could be the poster person for the disorder.

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