travis s attack. it appears as if she suffers from disassociative amnesia. and according to the research, the more intense the trauma, the more likely and the more complete the amnesia. dr. samuels said jodi s a. amnesia was caused by jodi s post-traumatic stress disorder, ptsd. another defense expert testified that jodi was a victim of domestic violence. given everything that you have reviewed, that you ve read in this case, that you ve seen, do you have an opinion, an ultimate opinion, in your expertise, about whether or not miss arias was in an abusive relationship? yes, i believe she was in an abusive relationship. and do you believe, in your expert opinion, that jodi was a battered woman or is a battered woman? yes, i do. but martinez tore into the defense experts. i m sorry, i don t see it that way. right, you wouldn t see it that way because you have
girl stalks and murders man. she still professes love. the california psychotherapist testifying for the defense has infused the proceedings with a bible of psychobabble. we hear of disassociative amnesia, secondary emotions and the reliable self-esteem. the murderess was an abused, battered woman, ootion a victim. somehow this murder trial got hijacked by feminists feministse trumps murder. isn t there a way to try murder in this country without submitting to the fashionable psychobabble of the moment? there is no way jurors can escape the reach of publicity in this case. poring through steamy diary entry, 82,000 emails and endless lurid texting, the prosecution
the diagnosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, disassociative amnesia. we have to talk about that. listen. i was able to diagnose miss arias with post-traumatic stress disorder with all psychological probability she was suffering from at the time i evaluated her. lisa, that s all fine and good if that s an evaluation post. but how does that bear any relevance on what happened when she allegedly murdered him? once again what we have here is a witness, the defense is bringing in to restore her credibility. in other words, how do we explain her story which is met by a lot of skepticism that she forgot what happened. remember her initial response to authorities was, i didn t know about this, then masked intruders then self-defense. he s meant to sort of help her out, restore her credibility but, you know, obviously a
unless you feel bad for them, and i think that might be where the line was crossed. certainly if somebody is suicidal in my practice, i do whatever i can do to get them into the hospital and get their family and other people around them who are normal parts of their support system in place. but i don t give them a book to respond to something like that. they talked more today about jodi arias memory and this fog she was allegedly in during the attack. what do you make of this analysis she suffers from disassociative amnesia? is that something you can fake? ptsd certainly has built into the criteria the idea of memory loss. this whole idea is that something was so traumatic that the brain kind of kicks in, takes over and blocks it out. the two areas he was referring to were the hippocampus which is responsible for memory and the prefrontal cortex. that being said, i think this is going to be a very difficult case to prove for two reasons. one is because she knew enough earlier on t
disassociative amnesia? is that something you can fake? ptsd certainly has built into the criteria the idea of memory loss. this whole idea is that something was so traumatic that the brain kind of kicks in, takes over and blocks it out. the two areas he was referring to were the hippocampus which is responsible for memory and the prefrontal cortex. that being said, i think this is going to be a very difficult case to prove for two reasons. one is because she knew enough earlier on to admit that she killed him in addition to telling different stories. somebody who has ptsd who doesn t remember anything says i don t remember anything. secondly, in a courtroom, when you re bringing up details about the murder, people with ptsd are traumatized.