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The Dershow

Can a Psychiatrist Ethically Diagnose Someone She Never Met? Dr. Brandy Lee did, and she was fired.

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

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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