 Kaczynski 's lawyers , headed by Montana federal defender Michael Donahoe and Judy Clarke , attempted to enter an insanity defense to save Kaczynski 's life , but Kaczynski rejected this plea . A court @-@ appointed psychiatrist diagnosed Kaczynski as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia , but declared him competent to stand trial . Kaczynski 's family said Ted would psychologically " shut down " when pressured . In the book Technological Slavery , Kaczynski recalls two prison psychologists , Dr. James Watterson and Dr. Michael Morrison , who visited him almost every day for a period of four years , who told him that they saw no indication that he suffered from any such serious mental illness , and that the diagnosis of his being paranoid schizophrenic was " ridiculous " and a " political diagnosis . " Dr. Morrison made remarks to him about psychologists and psychiatrists providing any desired diagnosis if they are well paid for doing so . 
