I‘m unable to find current licensure for her in any state. What I posted was from the CT physician license lookup. It seems it’s the only license she had but I must be missing something cause I remember she spoke about California
I thought it was interesting that Dr. L mentioned "Board Certification" (which is fairly easy to keep once it's gotten) and not where she was licensed.
I am guessing she's not licensed to
practice anywhere, but that would not prevent her from using her expertise in retirement, as we have seen. "Expertise." Her ideas were formed back in the days when psychoanalysis was a predominant paradigm (I had professors who were in that camp when I did my post-doc in the 1980's - they were the fully tenured, older types, but even so, where I worked, there was a large contingent of bio-psychiatrists and others who argued with the first group constantly).
And I have watched most of those profs change their views. But not Dr. Lewis. She graduated high school the year I was born and I am, myself, no longer up-to-date on most topics that I've researched in the past, unless I put in the daily work to keep up with the literature. I've never known a single psychiatrist who has diagnosed DID, although the academic literature shows about 1500 separate patients in various studies over the past 10 years, so there have to be some people at research institutions finding and studying these patients. The diagnostic methods have changed and the studies focus mostly on brain imaging, of course. There *are* differences in the brains of DID persons, according to some studies.
Is that why Dr L didn't want the brain studies? She wouldn't know how to interpret them, herself (these are subtle things looked for) and she likely knew it could open her client up to review by a real expert by the State. The tests she did order (MRI and EEG? can't remember) would not have been particularly diagnostic, IMO.
I think Dr L didn't believe her own malarkey and had a hard time not whipping out the more psychodynamic theories that would have explained how a person with multiple, overlapping Cluster B diagnoses might fall into the Dark Triad (now an actual subject of academic research) or be considered a psychopath (also a term now back in use in juried publications). If she had said Letecia was a psychopath, that would have been outside of CO's definition of legal insanity (moral depravity is a good synonym for it).
IMO.
