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Ragy Girgis
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia University and curator of the Columbia Mass Murder Database; expert on psychosis, violence in mental illness, and research into mass murder and mass shootings.
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Nov 5, 2025
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What causes mass shootings? (with Ragy Girgis)
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In this insightful discussion, Dr. Ragy Girgis, a Psychiatry Professor at Columbia University and expert on mass violence, delves into the complex causes of mass shootings. He explores how media coverage can amplify the fame-seeking motives of perpetrators, the limited role of severe mental illness, and the societal factors driving public mass murders. Girgis emphasizes the need for targeted prevention efforts, such as specific psychiatric profiling and robust gun regulations, to effectively address the underlying issues of violence.
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