Mass shooters and mental illness: Reexamining the connection [mdedge.com]
By Nina E. Cerfolio and Ira D. Glick,Photo: Unsplash, MDedge Psychiatry, December 5, 2023 Our psychiatric research, which found a high incidence of undiagnosed mental illness in mass shooters, was recently awarded the esteemed Psychodynamic Psychiatry Journal Prize for best paper published in the last 2 years (2022-2023). The editors noted our integrity in using quantitative data to argue against the common, careless assumption that mass shooters are not mentally ill. Some of the mass...