Can a Psychiatrist Ethically Diagnose Someone She Never Met? Dr. Brandy Lee did, and she was fired.
The Dershow
Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
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🗓️ 26 March 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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A Yale psychiatrist diagnosed me as having caught psychosis from Donald Trump. Yale fired her. She claims 1st Amendment. Who is right?
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| 0:00.0 | A faculty member at Yale Law School named Dr. Brandi Lee a psychiatrist is suing Yale for dismissing her. |
| 0:10.0 | The reason Yale dismissed her is because she was going around diagnosing people without having met them. |
| 0:17.0 | She diagnosed Donald Trump as being psychotic and she diagnosed me as having quite Donald Trump's psychosis |
| 0:26.0 | because I used the same word that he used six months earlier, the word perfect. |
| 0:32.0 | So we'll talk today about whether Yale is correct, whether she has been canceled, whether her first amendment rights have been violated, |
| 0:41.0 | whether she violated the rules of the profession, the so-called gold water rule which precludes psychiatrist from diagnosing people without ever having examined them. |
| 0:53.0 | We'll explore this and related issues on today's Dershow. |
| 1:00.0 | Until I turned 75, seven years ago, I had never been involved personally in a lawsuit. |
| 1:08.0 | I had never sued anybody, I never was sued. |
| 1:11.0 | In the last seven years my life seems to be lawsuits. |
| 1:16.0 | As probably some of you know, I am suing CNN, I am suing Netflix, I am being sued by a woman I never met who claimed sex with me. |
| 1:26.0 | I'm suing her back, I'm being sued by her lawyer David Boyz, I'm suing him back. |
| 1:31.0 | And now the other day I learned that a woman I never met, a psychiatrist named Dr. Brandi Lee who used to be a volunteer faculty member at Yale, |
| 1:44.0 | is suing Yale University for firing her based on what she claims were letters I wrote to Yale University. |
| 1:55.0 | So I'm at the center of yet another lawsuit and a suit in which she alleges that she's being fired in violation of her first amendment rights. |
| 2:06.0 | So let's tell this story. I don't know this woman, Dr. Brandi Lee. |
| 2:11.0 | I taught myself law and psychiatry for 25 years. |
| 2:16.0 | I actually even taught at Yale Law School with another professor, Jay Katz, in the early years of my teaching I wrote a book called Psych of Analysis, |
| 2:27.0 | Psychiatry, and the law and I have an expert in law and psychiatry. |
| 2:34.0 | I was involved in the decision by the American Psychiatric Association to create what was called the Goldwater Rule. |
| 2:44.0 | And I taught the Goldwater Rule for years. Now what's the Goldwater Rule? |
| 2:48.0 | Let me explain that will serve as a predicate to this very interesting story. |
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