tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72611706063857419672011-10-18T11:24:39.241-07:00Ralph B. Allison, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07466616833106186349noreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7261170606385741967.post-85070747724495763692007-03-10T13:43:00.000-08:002007-03-10T13:44:20.882-08:00My initial job in Santa Cruz was Mental Health Program Chief. One part of that job was to oversee the psychiatric care of county jail inmates. I also saw defendants on court order to determine their sanity and/or competency to stand trial. So I became, by default, one of the few psychiatrists in town who would go to court and testify about such jail inmates. One of them turned out to be a male multiple, whom I write about in “Minds In Many Pieces.” A woman inmate who was multiple worked at the jail as a nurse when she wasn’t incarcerated there as an inmate. Her story is in a book called “Tell Me Who I Am Before I Die.” I then was called on by defense attorneys when they suspected they had a defense because of such a diagnosis. This led to my involvement in the Hillside Strangler Case, a notorious serial killer case in California and Washington state. One of the pair of killers, Kenneth Bianchi, based his defense on the possibility he had a killer alter inside of him, Steve, who was not known to Ken at the time of the murders. <br /><br />Then, my last job was as a prison psychiatrist, treating inmates all day long. Some of them showed signs of multiplicity and presented major problems in management and treatment. Again, I learned a lot I would have missed if I had stayed in an office practice in town.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7261170606385741967-8507074772449576369?l=mpdlegalissues.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ralph B. Allison, M.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07466616833106186349noreply@blogger.com1