Bandy X. Lee

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rdf:langString New York City, U.S.

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rdf:langString The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

rdf:langString Bandy Xenobia Lee is an American psychiatrist whose scholarly work includes the writing of a comprehensive textbook on violence. She is a specialist in public health approaches to violence prevention who consulted with the World Health Organization and initiated reforms at New York's Rikers Island Correctional Facility. She helped draft the United Nations chapter on "Violence Against Children," leads a project group for the World Health Organization's Violence Prevention Alliance, and has contributed to prison reform in the United States and around the world. She taught at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School from 2003 through 2020. In 2017, Lee organized a conference at Yale on the mental health of Donald Trump with the participation of other psychiatrists including Robert Jay Lifton and Judith Lewis Herman. Following the conference, in March 2017, the American Psychiatric Association released a statement reaffirming the Goldwater rule that restricts comments related to the mental health of public figures without their consent or evaluation. Lee characterized the statement as silencing concerns raised by psychiatrists about the Trump presidency. Lee reconvened the conference the following month, and later in the year edited The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, a collection of essays warning about the dangers of Trump's mental instability that became a New York Times bestseller. In 2017 and 2018, Lee met with over fifty U.S. Congress members and in 2019 held an interdisciplinary conference at the National Press Club that was broadcast in full by C-SPAN. In 2020, Yale University fired Lee from her voluntary medical faculty position for breaking the Goldwater rule in her evaluations of Alan Dershowitz and Trump. Lee sued Yale for violating her academic freedom, but the suit was dismissed in August 2022.