Yale Psych Prof's Nonrenewal for Publicly Diagnosing Trump & Dershowitz Doesn't Violate Conn Law

[Torie]

Of course the professor’s contract should not be renewed, because while what she wrote may be an academic freedom and free speech, it is also non peer reviewed psychobable nonsense that is an embarrassment to Yale’s academic reputation. Fire her ass!

https://reason.com/volokh/2023/06/21/volunteer-yale-psych-profs-nonrenewal-for-publicly-diagnosing-trump-dershowitz-doesnt-violate-conn-law/#more-8239578

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

It's also wildly inappropriate and arguably immoral for a clinical psychologist--especially one who's teaching other aspiring clinical psychologists how to do their jobs--to use diagnostic criteria to make a political point, at least to make a negative one. If Lee had diagnosed me with a psychotic condition, it wouldn't exactly inspire confidence for her to also use that diagnosis as a term of abuse for public figures of whom she disapproves. Even when it comes to conditions like Cluster B personality disorders that, yes, do by their nature vitiate people's ability to behave in morally acceptable ways, for a psychologist to bring up the condition as a way of expressing a negative moral judgment is completely beyond the pale.