This would be like taking your vehicle to a mechanic, and having all your wheels fall off on the way home...
Oh yeah!
Looking at her pic, she's got that "we are the world" academia Pollyanna look going on.
Posted on 07/27/2012 1:06:39 PM PDT by Zakeet
The shooting suspect in the Colorado theater rampage was seeing a university psychiatrist specializing in schizophrenia in the weeks before the July 20 attack, according to court records released Friday.
James Holmes was seeing Lynne Fenton, the director of student mental health services at the University of Colorado and a medical school professor. Holmes was a first-year graduate student in a neuroscience Ph.D. program.
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Fenton, medical director of the counseling facility, has written numerous papers and launched research in the area of schizophrenia. She did not respond to calls to her home and office.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Schizophrenics have manic episodes of paranoia.
If it makes him feel any better, he has a reason to be paranoid now. There’s just 300 million people who want him dead.
Boy, if Holmes was paying for this treatment, he got ripped off.
She did not respond to calls to her home and office
No doubt. ..
Bet the university was paying her 100k per year....
This would be like taking your vehicle to a mechanic, and having all your wheels fall off on the way home...
Oh yeah!
Looking at her pic, she's got that "we are the world" academia Pollyanna look going on.
Right.
He claimed to be “in the middle” which at U of Col means somewhere between Trotsky and Lenin.
I’m a shrink, and have dealt with pretty rough crowds most of my career. For 25 years, I have seen several hundred new patients every year who want to do nothing more than kill themselves or someone else. If any of them ever do, my a$$ could be grass professionally.
To top it off, the law ties my hands about what I can and can’t do, and to top it off even further, law dictates - unlike LEOs or ANY other profession - that it is MY responsibility (sitting in my office) to protect all the people involved.
Anyone who hasn’t walked in the shoes of this doctor, and who doesn’t lay their careers on the line repeatedly, trying to treat dangerous illnesses with less than perfect but most often life-saving medicines, can go pound sand.
sorry if I offend - but its what I believe, based on interactions with the more a few psychiatrists I know and have met.
I would consult a medical doctor, and I would consult a priest. both professions have existed since the beginning of time. Psychiatry? Still a work in progress.
I also wonder how the profession ever carved out for itself the concept that there are people that ONLY psychiatrists can help??
Since you've been doing this 25 years, I would imagine you've treated approximately 5,000 patients. So out of thousands of mental patients, none have killed themselves?
All this fiend had were some pathological personality characteristics, which could not cloud his grasp of right and wrong sufficiently to know what he was doing was the ultimate of evils. His internship at Salk showed he wasn't really up to par for the PhD program he eventually enrolled in. That means he was not judged by Salk's Johnson to be capable of independent original research. Graduating from UC Riverside post internship, showed he had the ability to copy and make one of the comic book scenarios of evil he enjoyed come to life.
He's basically just a spoiled kid whose world view and outlook collapsed and he decided to commit suicide by creating and playing a real life evil 'toon where his pain was spread as much as he could. Contacting this psychiatrist is just part of the game he set up and forced folks to play.
Oh man she was an M.D. and a psychiatrist with (apparently) a considerable research and publishing history.
I don’t think they could touch her for under $250K.
You're probably correct, the University of Colorado was probably paying her 250k per year.
Isn't the university a state government run school?
I look forward to seeing her next published paper.
so Romney was right when he said the mutt bought guns illegally since he MUST have lied on the yellow sheets...
Good for you dirt. For too many around here lately crucifixion and character assassination have been elevated to a blood sport. they subscribe to the Dan Rather School of Evidence whose motto is "The lack of evidence is enough evidence for me."
I’m not at all surprised. These things just don’t happen without the perp having a major history of mental problems or ideological issues, like Major Hasan. In either case they almost all give warnings. I’ve also disagreed with other posters here who’ve said ABC got it wrong when they quoted Holmes’ mother as saying Holmes was the shooter. Once again, I strongly suspect his family knew he had a record of schizophrenia that made him likely to do something like this and successfully concealed his condition until he did it. His mother, caught by surprise, blurted out the truth. Later on, knowing the legal risk to the entire family, she lawyered up and changed her story. DUH, SURPRISE!!
We need nut control, not gun control.
Hear that.
‘Course if she is the proper kind of lefty, and she almost certainly is, she will be shielded by the press and the legal system and her next bit of writing might be the blockbuster “Days & Nights with the Dark Knight”...
Sheesh...
Re: “Schizophrenia”
I immediately thought about this issue after reading a summary biography of the 24 year old James Holmes.
Schizophrenia strikes predominantly in young males.
The prime age for first symptoms is 18-25.
The university will give her 750k+ 3 years pay and tickets to Disneyland...Just to go away.
Although it’s very hard to impossible to commit somebody like Holmes for a long time, even one commitment gives an individual like him a psychiatric record that is supposed to be picked up by Insta Check and can usually prevent him from buying firearms. Looks like the shrink didn’t tag him, thereby enabling him to buy the guns.
Lets hope this doesn't mean she was dating him.
Nothing surprises any more.
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