Celebrate February 23

The first anniversary of Jeffrey Lieberman's professional death is coming up in less than one month. On February 23, 2022, Lieberman was so arrogant as to ostentatiously brag his own (and psychiatry's) deep, profound racism on Twitter. The reaction against him was instantaneous. He was fired from several official positions which had amounted to "King of Psychiatry" for many years.

The deposed monarch hasn't been much heard from since. He kind of disappeared. Many people probably miss seeing his sweet little, racist face on the news.

I suppose it's too bad for some politicians, like the Mayor of New York City, who would love to employ psychiatric opinion leaders to justify their oppressive strategies, cynically disguised as kind medicine, to "remove" people on excuses of "mental illness". There are still such whores for sale, but Lieberman was the best of them and nobody can ever buy him again. His stock is totally down and out.

I'd like to know where Jeffrey is, I would feel safer if I could keep track of him. After Napoleon returned from Corsica to ravage Europe one last time, the leaders of the world wisely sent him to a remote island from which he could never escape, then he died and became untraceable. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Torquemada... these evil people are all untraceable now. But we might worry about whether they can come back, under new names and new guises. They are most likely quite well contained in rocks, but I wish I could know which rocks.

Individuals do not just cease to exist, although their bodies and their names obviously do. Persons are immortal spirits, and they can rise again from the dead. Sooner or later, it will be necessary, appropriate, or joyous, to deal with each of them.

I would love to deal with Jeffrey Lieberman, any day. If anyone reading this knows where he is, let him know I'll be happy to buy him a beer in May, at the APA conference in San Fransisco, and we can sit and talk.

But in any event, I'll celebrate every year, I'll remember Jeffrey on February 23.