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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Trump or Obama--who's the real sociopath?

Former U.S. Senator Gordon Humphrey (R-N.H.) thinks Donald Trump is a "sociopath." He would never support him and now that John "Karate Chop" Kasich is out of the race, the horse in his race is Hillary, a felon, not a sociopath. 

"The Hump," as his wife probably calls him, said that he will continue to support Kasich until the convention is "gaveled to a close." The Hump is  Kasich delegate and would go through fire and water to support him. Regarding Trump, The Hump said, "I think he's a sociopath."

Humphrey isn't a psychologist--he studied aviation and is a pilot. I believe he may be confusing Donald Trump with Barack Obama, who may be more of a sociopath than Trump.


Sociopaths are charming. It's one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths--that's how they use people to their advantage.

Let's not kid ourselves, Obama is a lot more charming than Trump could ever be. In fact, that's the Donald's charm--the fact that he's so damn disagreeable with most everyone who gets in his way.

Sociopaths are incapable of love. Do you ever see vibrant love bubbles bursting over the heads of Barack and Michelle? I don't think so. But Trump's family have an incredible allegiance toward him that usually comes from parenting history. 

Of course, their allegiance could also come from the truckloads of money he has, but there's no proof of that. Trump appears to love his family more than Obama appears to love the Mooch.

Sociopaths tend to speak poetically. They throw around polysyllabic words like a monkey with his feces--just look at Charles Manson on YouTube and listen to him speak. 

Trump generally uses simple words, simple phrases. He prefers to speak to the public as if we are all in kindergarten. His big words are usually hyperbole--"tremendous,' 'amazing,' and the like.

Obama clearly is "on the wrong side of history" on this one. He uses words as if they're magic and uses our Constitution as if it's a doormat.

Sociopaths tend to dominate people and must "win" at all costs.

This is where Trump may trump Obama, but I wouldn't swear to it. Sure Trump uses the term "win, win, win," but that's because it's a one syllable word, whereas Obama says the same thing with bigger words but doesn't mean any one of them.

Manson's Einstein imitation

Sociopaths never apologize. 

This one's a tossup. I don't remember either one of them ever really apologizing even when it was blatantly obvious they were wrong. But I believe that this is a characteristic of politicians and people who dive to become one.

Sociopaths tend to be very intelligent.

I believe Trump beats Obama in the intellect department but Obama is clearly intelligent enough to have gotten by without ever holding down a real job. It may be due to the big words he uses. 

Sociopaths are delusional and actually believe that what they say becomes truth. The best example of this is when Obama said that you can keep your health care provider. And it will save the average American $2500 a year.

And you can keep your doctor. 

Period.

I see Obama and Trump both on par in this area, but we still haven't seen Trump as POTUS to determine just how delusional he might be. If he gets Mexico to pay for the wall, I'll be convinced he's the real deal and I'll just shut up.

There are several more areas used in the diagnosis of sociopathic behavior. It's difficult to know with accuracy if either man is displays the behavior because we know them only in their public lives.

What is clear is that laypersons should be careful about attributing a serious diagnosis to another individual. It's clearly unethical coming from a public figure to be labelling another. Fortunately, I am not a public figure so I can label The Hump a troglodyte.

Look it up, Donald.


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