America's laws around cameras aren't helping her very much... but they are helping others get a better understanding of how personality disorders work and what Mr Depp has been through. There is a lot of catharsis here for those who have been on the wrong end of a BPD whirlwind. Other comments on my work have seen men come forward and start talking about it a lot more.

From a purely analytic POV It's been very interesting to watch and it's been very interesting to see how she behaves in the stand. I would imagine that in person she is incredibly persuasive and compelling. That isn't coming across on camera and it isn't working from the witness stand - but it has worked on Dr Hughes who seemed utterly compromised from a position of therapeutic neutrality. There are very good reasons why psychologists work in pairs when working with people this manipulative.

Ultimately though, I don't think her BPD and attempted manipulation will succeed, she will try and throw her legal team under the bus and she will try and become a spokesperson for 'the failure of the courts system to represent women' and she'll be rejected. Then I think if she isn't rapidly given some serious DBT, we will see a suicide attempt. An attempt first, and if this doesn't garner the required reaction, then potentially the full action. I'm worried for her.

The nuances of personality disorders aren't very well understood and it's easier to characterise her as a lying bitch and to pick a side than it is to maintain compassion with boundaries. That's what this woman needs, compassion, therapy and boundaries, boundaries, boundaries!