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I did my psychiatric training at NYU and bellw I spent a lot of time in the emergency room of bellev and the most
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exciting the way the sickest psychiatric patients were the ones that were being brought in by the police uh they had the
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most incredible backstories and had the most extreme symptoms and trying to figure out what was going on with them
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what had caused them to get to that particular Point became fascinating and as a result I started working on the
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prison Ward at Bellevue and continued this this love for the kind of the investigative process of trying to
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understand why someone commits a crime why someone gets to a point in their life where taking this drastic action
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made a lot of sense and basically I'm doing a an investigation to try to figure out what someone's mental state
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was at some moment in the past when some something terrible happened and then my
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whole process becomes to try to unearth the truth and so I review documents I interview the individual I'll interview
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their family members eyewitnesses you know I'll I'll review police documentation prior medical records to
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try to recreate a a 360 view of the individual's mind at that moment in time and if I can do that then I can try to
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answer that question why they killed a person why they did something terrible and that that process is f fascinating