Stuart Shipko again uses same old 'Paxil made him do it' defense on wife-killer when every other psychiatrist who evaluated the murderer determined he suffered from psychosis

What can you say about Dr. Stuart Lee Shipko's lack of knowledge in psychiatry, or as a doctor for that matter?

Dr. Stuart Shipko loses another case based on his belief
Paxil withdrawal syndrome caused someone to die

In virtually every case we have reviewed involving Dr. Shipko as a paid expert witness in the courts, he has used the same one-note criminal defense that all the violent deaths he evaluated were due, in some manner, to some kind of adverse reaction to the anti-depressant drug Paxil.

To be fair though, in the case of kidnapper Dennis Shellhouse, Dr. Shipko claimed that two different kinds of SSRI (Selective Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitor) anti-depressant medications, Paxil and Prosac, and possibly a low-dose of prednisone were responsible for his medication-induced psychotic state of "unconsciousness," wherein the kidnapper methodically planned out and research a kidnap-for-ransom plot over a 6-month period in his home in Alabama.

Somehow, Shellhouse was "unconscious" during this entire time when he researched and put the plan together, according to Dr. Shipko, which is just laughable.

Paxil, like all other SSRI anti-depressant drugs (e.g., Prozac, Lexapro, Celexa, Zoloft, etc.), have some adverse side effects with a small minority of patients when they are are initially started on the drug, suddenly are taken off of the drug, or when the dosage is dramatically changed, (e.g., nausea, vomiting, sensations of shocks, changes in mood, agitation, increased tendency to feel depressed or energetic, etc.), but no one has proven to have suffered from psychiatric blackouts or psychotic episodes from this mood-altering class of drug, especially at the low doses that Dr. Shipko has claimed his criminal clientele have allegedly been using the drug in the criminal cases he testified on.