From The
Chronicle:
February 19, 2010, 09:00 AM ET
Amy Bishop's
Lawyer Says She Is Probably Insane
Amy
Bishop's court-appointed lawyer says the professor accused of killing three of
her colleagues appears to have paranoid schizophrenia and while she
is "aware of what she's done" and is full of remorse, she can't
remember the shootings. Roy W. Miller, the lawyer, told the
Associated Press that her failure to get tenure at the University of
Alabama at Huntsville was the likely key to the shootings.
"Obviously she was very distraught and concerned over that
tenure," Mr. Miller said. "It insulted her and slapped her in the
face, and it's probably tied in with the Harvard mentality. She brooded and
brooded and brooded over it, and then, 'bingo.'" (emphasis mine)
(HT: Henry
at Crooked Timber)
Is "Harvard mentality" acknowledged by the DSM? Probably not… good luck going down that path, better to argue paranoid sz, at least a recognized diagnosis… The truth is that getting fired hurts… but is never a justification for violence; that's why we have a legal system, contracts and employment law. Sadly, this prof had many many problems even before this. Tragic.
It is very sad, anon. Needless to say, I find only the Harvard reference amusing . . . not anything else about this tragedy.