Albert Lloyd Andersen v. United States

LEMMON, Circuit Judge.

“It is an old joke,” the appellant’s expert testified, and only semi-humorously, “that you have got to be a little nuts to be a psychiatrist.

“You got to be a little off to be a psychiatrist or you can’t make a living any other way unless you are, and pretty near the same thing follows for a psychologist.”

The appellant himself, however, who holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, disagreed with his expert witness.

“It isn’t too good for a psychologist to be crazy,” he said.

That remark might easily be classified as the understatement of the year.

On one occasion, in a movie,…