During Trump’s presidency, we witnessed Trump Derangement Syndrome in many forms, but psychiatrist Bandy Lee, who worked for Yale at the time, stood out as a shining example.
She was repeatedly rolled out by Democrats and the media to declare Trump mentally unfit for office, despite never having examined or even met him.
Lee even went after Alan Dershowitz for defending Trump.
It turns out that diagnosing people from afar is frowned on in psychiatry, so Lee ultimately lost her job at Yale.
She then waged a legal battle to get her job back, but ultimately lost.
David Propper reports at the New York Post:
Psychiatrist Brandy Lee, who slammed Trump’s mental state, fails to get Yale gig backA prominent psychiatrist who called President Trump and his loyalists mentally ill failed to get her job back after Yale University parted ways with Dr. Bandy Lee two years ago, a judge ruled.A federal judge in Connecticut dismissed a wrongful termination lawsuit that charged the Ivy League school with violating the woman’s free speech and professional obligations when she was not reappointed to her role with the school, the Harford Courant reported.Lee, who was in an unpaid position, was with the school for 17 years before she was tossed aside. She argued in legal papers she had a “duty to warn” people about the “contagion” of Trump’s mental state, according to the Courant.The prestigious university had questions about her judgment and ability to teach after she started making medical proclamations about Trump and others close to him, the newspaper reported.Her statements go against the American Psychiatric Association rule that prohibits professional opinions of public figures who were not examined, her own lawsuit stated.
As recently as last week, the left was still defending Lee’s actions.
This is from Mother Jones:
The Psychiatrist Who Warned Us That Donald Trump Would Unleash Violence Was Absolutely RightOn the afternoon of February 1, 2016, as Iowa voters prepared for that evening’s caucuses, Bandy Lee sat by the bedside of her mother, who was terminally ill with cancer. An assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Yale, Lee had been too preoccupied with her mother’s condition to pay attention to the nascent presidential race, so she was taken aback when she saw footage of a Donald Trump rally airing on the hospital room’s small TV. What shocked her was the way Trump interacted with the crowd. “He said something about how his supporters should knock the crap out of hecklers,” she recalls, “and that if they did, he would pay their legal bills.”His belligerent behavior meant more to Lee than it might to a casual viewer. As part of her clinical work in prison settings, she had evaluated and treated hundreds of violent offenders, including leaders of prison gangs. A native New Yorker, she had assumed that Trump “was just a shady businessman,” Lee told me, but “I suddenly realized that he had a lot in common” with those patients. “Trump was engaging in the predatory manipulation of his vulnerable followers.”
You might say that the left had ‘weaponized’ psychiatry against Trump, or at least tried to do so.
Lee’s refusal to diagnose Biden was enough to know this was nothing more than a partisan hit job.
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