It seems clear that psychiatry is not an exact science. But since that is so, why do parole boards give so much weight to psychiatric recommendations that releasing a convict won’t harm the community?
I wonder what meds he was on. I had a friend whose shrink put her on an anti-anxiety drug for a prolonged period, mostly in an effort to get her into bed. When she tried to get off it she had all sorts of departures from reality. Periods of blackouts, an unscheduled trip to the Mexican border in the middle of the night in the middle of one of these delusional episodes. She had to go inpatient to get off the medicine.
Really scary. The cure was much worse than her original problems.