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Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv

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2 Jan

Supporters of Donald Trump who have adopted his delusions, paranoia, violence-proneness, and entitlement are likely suffering from shared psychosis, which has now turned into mass psychosis. Hence, as with any severe psychopathology, those afflicted will deny what they have.

One means of denial is projection: accusing healthy persons/groups of what they have, in order to “disown” not only their afflictions but the very concept that they are impaired. Because this process is unconscious, the drive is compulsive—and more effective—than strategy alone.

It is a process that appears in cults, but it is worse than cults. It is also not healthy to keep people under this condition, no matter their own insistence. The longer they remain, the more difficult the “deprogramming”, and the more traumatic the return to reality.

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Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv

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31 Dec 21

@AlanDersh

That the BBC and the NYT so constantly falter is a sign of our times. But @AlanDersh himself should have declared his conflicts. We now have people so unethical that not only does he fail the first requirement of experts, he denies even when confronted!!
theguardian.com/media/2021/dec…

The same goes for Jeffrey Lieberman, who failed to disclose that he was a past president of the APA and eyeing a position in the Executive Branch before giving Donald Trump a glowing psychiatric clearance (he violated the Goldwater rule more thoroughly than anyone, by the way).

And Ronny Jackson, who failed to disclose that he was the employee and under military command of the person he was declaring “mentally fit,” without any mental health qualifications, not to mention vying for a Cabinet position and then a seat in the House of Representatives.

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Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv

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26 Sep 21

When I mentioned at a symposium today that the American Psychiatric Association (APA), after shutting us down, received windfalls of federal funding and even moved its headquarters to Washington, DC, people were shocked.

Here are its new headquarters:

This was when the Trump administration was massively cutting funds to legitimate science and medicine organizations:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

According to the person who sent the picture: “The area is the Wharf. There is an Intercontinental Hotel and a brand new development of very high-level restaurants and shops and bars. So when people in the organization visit from out of town, they can be lavished with perks.”

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Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv

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23 Jul 21

“[W]ith the original virus, you would have to be in a closed space within 3 or 4 feet of someone for about 10 minutes to be assured of picking up the infection. With the Delta variant, all you have to be is in contact with them for about one minute.”
al.com/coronavirus/20…

“[I]f you went to your doctor with chest pain. We know what to do for that. We do an EKG. We run some blood tests. This is going to your doctor, except the doctor is a public health official who knows a lot about how epidemics emerge. There isn’t politics in this.”

Same for a mental health pandemic. We know what to do. We apply mental health measures. We study the results. This is going to your doctor, except the doctor is a public mental health expert who knows a lot about how psychic epidemics emerge. There is no politics in this.

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Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv

@BandyXLee1

7 Jul 21

I am perhaps the only person to have paid the consequences for breaking “the Goldwater rule.” No member of the APA has been disciplined for breaking it, as far as we know, and no state licensing board is allowed to take it on, as it conflicts with the First Amendment.

Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the APA was the way it handled debate—or blocked it altogether. When protest letters flooded its ethics committee after its March 2017 opinion, committee members assumed they would be reconvening; no such thing happened.

When its most distinguished life fellows wrote a letter asking for a discussion, the APA refused, stating that a discussion had already been had and there was nothing more to discuss!

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Bandy X Lee, MD, MDiv

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6 Jul 21

https://twitter.com/jasonintrator/status/1412286468387708929

We invited Jason Stanley to our major interdisciplinary conferences in 2019 and 2020. Here is a good thread on fascism (combined with the psychological concepts, below, you can have a complete summary of what is happening):

https://twitter.com/jasonintrator/status/1412286468387708929

Psychological underpinnings of these political observations:
1. Regression (return to childhood)
2. Delusion (self-deception)
3. Anti-knowledge (denial of reality)
4. Psychotic spiral (further detachment from reality)
5. Domination-submission as the only path to stability

6. Paranoia
7. Projection
8. Lack of insight/self-awareness
9. Envy
10. Idealization of self

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