Why it's reasonable to suspect that James Holmes might have paranoid schizophrenia,

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12. IMO the one thing we can be reasonably sure of is that

all sides want Holmes to get a complete psychiatric examination.

The primary things going against schizophrenia are 1) we don't have any evidence that dx was assigned and 2) few mass murderers have been determined to be psychotic. Neither of those 2 things would really be an argument that precludes Holmes from being dx'd psychotic, or from being in the minority of mass murderers who were psychotic.

With respect to seeing a psychiatrist...I'm not aware that a statement has been made about what diagnosis was the reason for Holmes seeing her. Maybe I missed it. If I did I'd appreciate being pointed to a link...

Psychiatrists are the members of an outpatient mental health clinic who get to prescribe, and various non MD therapists would refer patients with a variety of prescription needs to whatever psychiatrist(s) were working in the clinics.