Dr. Daniel Amen

I'm like, I have a homicidal suicidal child.

What do you think are real symptoms?

So there's this incredible divorce between psychiatry and neurology.

And I thought to myself, neurologists.

neurosurgeons, neurosurgeon what I really want.

So I called the chief of pediatric neurosurgery at UCLA, Jorge Lazareff.

And he was already famous because he'd separated the Guatemalan twins or connected the head.

And he said, Dr. Eamon, when these cysts are symptomatic, we drain them.

He's obviously symptomatic.

And after surgery,

I got two phone calls.

First one was from my sister-in-law who said the surgery went really well.

And then she burst out into tears and she said, when Andrew woke up from surgery, he smiled at me.

She said, Danny hadn't smiled in a year.

And then I got a call from Dr. Lazarev who said, oh my God, Dr. Raymond, that cyst was much more aggressive than we thought.

It actually thinned the bone over his temporal lobe.

So it thinned the bone of his skull.

And he said if he would have been hit in the head with a basketball, would have killed him instantly.

Either way, he would have been dead in six months.

And it was that moment I'd lost all of my desire for the American Psychiatric Association to like me, for my colleagues to love me.