I don't think professionals in the mental health field can comment as professionals in the mental health field about public personalities other than as being their personal opinions since they do not know the public personality first hand? Yes, social scientists can give learned opinions about society and the actions of those inhabiting it ("in my professional opinion that looks like something a peson with paranoid schizophrenia might do" but not label the person who did it as having paranoid schizophrenia) but I'm only interested in hearing from Oprah's personal psychiatrist/therapist (she's never been in therapy) when someone gives a professional mental health evaluation of Oprah. I would think everyone else could possibly get hit with libel suits if they didn't first do the "in my personal opinion. . ." rather than "professional opinion and if Oprah's psychiatrist/therapist did that while she was living they'd get a breach of confidentially charge leveled at them, at the very least.

That's why we want to hear from Congresswoman Giffords doctors, themselves, instead of "a" doctor that works for the networks telling us about being shot in the head in general. One wonders how the HIPPA laws relate to public figures? Must be different, kind of like how it's harder to get a charge of libel to stick if you're famous.