“Zoloft Defense” Trial Enters “Sanity Phase”

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The trial of Anthony Orban enters the “sanity phase,” during which jurors will decide whether Orban was in control of his actions at the time he committed kidnap and rape. Saying that Orban had stopped taking Zoloft, then resumed it five days before the attack, Peter Breggin testified that within days of resuming Orban had delusions that he was possessed by demons, that a cadaver had talked to him, contemplated suicide, and had fantasies of killing his wife and dog. “His wife described him as being zombie-like,” Breggin said.

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Kermit Cole
Kermit Cole is a licensed marriage and family therapist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He and his partner, Luisa Putnam, joined by their mutual interest in working with trauma and psychosis, studied Open Dialogue in Finland and Peer-supported Open Dialogue in the UK in order to practice and teach as a team. In 2011, they joined with Robert Whitaker to found the Mad in America website

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