Paranoid Schizphrenia and "Political Diagnoses"

Three psychiatrists have diagnosed me with paranoid schizophrenia: Dimitrios Georgopoulos, MD (1996); Albert H. Taub, MD (1999); and Betsy Jane Cooper, MD (2004).

Dr. Georgopoulos assigned the diagnosis a brief time after I wrote a letter to him detailing my belief that Dr. Georgopoulos and other psychiatrists associated with the George Washington University Medical Center Department of Psychiatry had violated the D.C. Mental Health Information Act by transmitting confidential mental health information to my former employer, the D.C. law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, at the firm's solicitation.  In other words, Dr. Georgopoulos assigned the diagnosis paranoid schizophrenia after I alleged in writing that Dr. Georgopoulos was engaged in the commission of a crime.

In the year 1998 I filed a complaint with the D.C. Board of Medicine against Albert H. Taub, MD, based on Dr. Taub's refusal to sign an informed consent statement that I had prepared.  In Dr. Taub's written response to the Medical Board, he assigned the diagnosis paranoid schizophrenia -- and oddly enough -- referred to the informed consent statement I had prepared as my "manifesto," a characterization reminiscent of the Unabomber.

Dr. Theodore John "Ted" Kaczynski (born May 22, 1942), also known as the Unabomber (University and Airline Bomber), is an American mathematician and social critic, who engaged on a mail bombing spree that spanned nearly 20 years, killing three people and injuring 23 others.  The Unabomber had prepared a lengthy writing, commonly referred to as "The Unabomber's Manifesto," that decried the role of technology in modern life.

After his arrest, Kaczynski's lawyers, headed by Montana federal defender Michael Donahoe, attempted to enter an insanity defense to save Kaczynski's life, but Kaczynski rejected this plea; he did not believe he was insane. A court-appointed psychiatrist diagnosed Kaczynski as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, but declared him competent to stand trial. Kaczynski's family said he would psychologically "shut down" when pressured. In the book, The Road to Revolution, Kaczynski recalls two prison psychologists, Dr. James Watterson and Dr. Michael Morrison, who visited him almost every day for a period of four years, who told him that they saw no indication that he suffered from any such serious mental illness, and that the diagnosis of his being paranoid schizophrenic was "ridiculous" and a "political diagnosis". Dr. Morrison made remarks to him about psychologists and psychiatrists providing any desired diagnosis if they are well paid for doing so.

It was common practice among psychiatrists in the Soviet Union to diagnose political dissidents with paranoid schizophrenia in order to justify the dissidents' confinement in mental hospitals.

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At the law firm of Akin Gump, I was diagnosed with the "disorder" ideas of reference in October 1991 days after I complained to the firm's senior managers that I was a victim of job harassment by my supervisor and other firm personnel.  The diagnosis was used by the firm's attorney managers to provide a legal justification for my job termination.  Ideas of reference are typically a symptom of psychotic mental illness, such as paranoid schizophrenia.