“Many in the public have the idea that mental illness is a risk factor for mass murder, which it isn’t, so we have to be careful about how we approach that subject, not to further encourage false beliefs in the public about the corollaries of mental illness.”
Dr. Michels is past president of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and the American College of Psychiatrists, and is a former member of the Board on Mental Health and Behavioral Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine. He had no disclosures.