“Crazy, Not Insane” – We’re mad [MOVIE REVIEW]
(from left) Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis and Dr. Jonathan Pincus examining Nollie Martin. Photo courtesy of HBO. “Crazy, Not Insane,” another thought-provoking documentary from Alex Gibney (“Agents of Chaos,” “Out for Blood”), is being released by HBO and HBO Max. Gibney has focused his sights on Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis, a psychiatrist who has devoted her life’s work to the provocative question of why some people kill. Why, under similar circumstances, do some kill and others do not. Is there something in the brain or in the environment or a combination of the two? Is this a nature versus nurture question? But more importantly, she raises the issue of how we treat the killers. Dr. Lewis began her career working with children, including many in juvenile detention. In the course of treatment she interviewed the children, parents, caregivers, and teachers extensively and found one thread that often ran through the backgrounds of the juvenile offenders—abuse, both physical, sexual, and mental, sometimes horrifyingly extreme. This insight into the juvenile criminal mind led her to explore the backgrounds of adult violent offenders. Teaming with Jonathan Pincus, a Yale neurologist, they…
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