I’m pretty sure he mentioned both therapists he was taken to as an adult: one he only went to once and refused medication from, the other I believe he continued to see, along with supervised, hired therapist-friends.
Both were shrinks who appear as experts on tv. (It’s in his manifesto.)
But I’d have thought the shrink would have been obligated to report him to the authorities, and any delay there would have been problematic.
Also, I guess they must have been in family therapy, or else going to the mother would have been an invasion of the client’s privacy as well, no?
Mental health professionals are cut a great deal of slack when they consider someone to be a danger to self and/or others. The obligation to preserve confidentiality, which is normally something that only the client can waive, is trumped by the explicit duty to warn which is a legal obligation in all states.