Joe Ricci and his self destructive outrageous behavior, racetrack and other shady dealing were beginning to grind on Dr. Davidson. I also think he really began to get scared Joe actions were going to take him down with Joe. If Joe had lived I believe his luck at winning lawsuits were going to turn on him. His drug addictions, shady accounting methods and destructive antics were going to help him implode. The money was hemorrhaging faster then the Penobscot River. Dr.Davidson was trying to get Joe to stop spending going so far as suing him. I also think Dr.Davidson was scared for his life. Joe was a crazy son of a bitch even though he acted like a punk.
Put cocaine, amphetamines and alcohol into this man, who knows what kind of paranoid psycho you would have had.
Wayne personally I think that Dr.Davidson was just a plain ole psychiatrist that struck it big. He enjoyed the lavish amounts of money Elan made for him and he could still have a practice 2 hrs away in Boston. He could get away and forget about the horrible things going on up north (fucking coward). Dr. Davidson is guilty of being complicit in one of the countries worst T/C's. Elan systematically ripped through thousands of lives with no regard for emotional or mental consequences.
Dr. Davidson was a sick greedy putz nothing more (IMO). Fuck him!!!!!!
Both Joe and Gerald were glamor boys trying to show off their tuff love, in your face, I'll kick your ass T/C to the TTI during the 70's. many did not buy into this facade (Mark Babitz knows) Ill. pulled him out. Problem was then Rhode Island, Mass and Ct. say...Oh Elan is doing a great job. Look they are helping us clean out are adolescent insane asylums, juvie centers, are autistic population problem, foster care over population, adolescent homeless problem, adolescent extreme violent problem (rapist, molesters, attempted murderers and murderers) ect......
See I would give Dr. Davidson the benefit of the doubt on your assertions if he at least committed himself to providing some form of care, education or therapy on a consistent bases while he owned and worked at Elan. But he didn't. He didn't perform any experiments, studies or innovative therapy sessions that lasted for any length of time. The only thing Gerald did was cater to his super rich clientele (parent group with child). He made sure one of his cash cows kept milking.
Joe and Gerald came up with a flim flam idea for a T/C and freaked out when it really took off. Joe was the first one to bolt from Elan. Right after he bought the race track. Actually he had started to tune out as of 1977 when he started fucking everything that moved. Sherry had kicked him out of the house when she finally realized she had married a emotional cripple with psychotic tendencies.
Some thoughts I had.