Commentary

Was mental illness a factor in the Germanwings crash?


 

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It’s possible, if not likely, that we’ll never understand why this copilot decided to end the lives of so many people along with his own.

Dr. Miller is a coauthor of “Shrink Rap: Three Psychiatrists Explain Their Work (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University, 2011).

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