Psychologist Reveals Kidnapping, Forced Evaluation of Great Jedi Master

Renowned psychologist opens up about her time with great Jedi Master Yoda.

This week a psychologist revealed the shocking occurrence of a forced evaluation of the great Jedi Master Yoda. The psychologist, who will only be referred to as Dr. X for fear of repercussions from the few remaining followers of the evil despot Darth Vader, said that the evaluation took place when it was discovered that Yoda was training Luke Skywalker. She said the purpose of the evaluation was to assess whether the Jedi Master was competent to train the young man who had been determined to be the future savior who would rid the galaxy of Vader.

“The Jedi council, which Yoda had led for many years before his failed attempt to kill Vader and exile to the planet Dagobah, were concerned about the possibility that Yoda was psychotic,” Dr. X said. “They provided me with previous records which showed that the Jedi Master had been assessed for psychosis previously when hearing the voice of his a long time friend who had died many years previously. Yoda had called for the evaluation himself. All medical tests came back negative and the psychological evaluation showed that he was sound.”

It was later determined that Yoda had, in fact, heard the voice of his old friend, Qui-Gon Jinn when he heard it again, and it was discovered that Jinn had managed to hold onto his consciousness after death.

“The council also questioned whether Yoda might have other psychological problems, in particular PTSD following his defeat at the hands of Darth Vader, depression from living on a swamp planet for so long, and anxiety related to the possibility that he might be found and assassinated by the Empire, Dr. X continued.

“Barring that, they suggested that he appeared to be paranoid, supported by the fact he’d been in hiding for decades in the little-traveled Dagobah System.”

Asked if this were not possible, Dr. X replied, “I’ll tell you what I told them at the time. This was that if they were really concerned about PTSD and anxiety, his kidnapping and imprisonment on a ship that whisked him from a largely uninhabited area to the capital of the Republic where anyone might see him and report back to the dark forces was not a good strategy. I also pointed out that by all indications the dark forces were still searching for him and that fears are not paranoia if they are, in fact, true. They then suggested that perhaps Yoda suffered from dyslexia, given his unusual speech patterns, which would prevent him from being able to effectively train the young Jedi.”

When the evaluation was carried out, Yoda was believed to be the only one of his species anyone knew of, Dr. X stated that the Council had in fact, been familiar with another of his kind, a female Jedi Master named Yaddle, who had been a member of the high council.

“At the time, I said that Yoda’s speech patterns didn’t reflect any of the classic types of dyslexia. I questioned if it were not possible that since English obviously wasn’t his native language, the reversals couldn’t be the result of translating sentences from his language word by word reflecting a different language structure. When I discovered years later that Yaddle had sat on the Council with many of them such that they would have known that her speech patterns were the same, I experienced even more dissonance about the Council than I had at the time.”

Elaborating on this, Dr. X stated that the Councils motives were not entirely clear at the time of the evaluation but that it was obvious it was something other than their stated concern for the well being of the young Jedi Yoda was training.

“The sense I got was that they wanted to disqualify Yoda from being able to train Skywalker. It seemed that while there was agreement in not wanting Yoda to train the young Jedi, there was internal discord about who would take over. I got the feeling it was more about their own desire to get the credit for training the Jedi destined to save the Republic. Quite possibly, they also desired the power and control that would go along with that.”

Asked if she didn’t sense that Yoda wanted something similar, Dr. X replied quite emphatically, “Absolutely not. The Jedi Master was clearly not concerned with himself but only with helping his student not only develop into a Jedi Warrior but also help him grow into a well adjusted adult. He described the intense journey of exploration that his friend, Jinn, sent him on which included the need to confront and defeat his own dark side. It was obvious that the great Jedi had much enlightenment and was truly a selfless individual.”

Dr. X emphasized that Yoda had not been found to be suffering from any known psychological disorder.

“I informed the Council of my findings but they insisted that I must have missed something and that I should spend more time with him. They wanted me to council him into voluntarily giving up training Skywalker. Though perhaps not the most ethical decision I have made, I did not verbally refuse to do so not did I fight this request. I was quite honestly thrilled to be able to spend time with such an amazing soul. The additional three days we were together were spent with the Jedi Master actually providing me with council not vice versa.

I can truly say I learned more from him in the four days we shared than from anyone else in my entire life.”

Asked what the most significant thing she learned from the Jedi Master was, Dr. X replied, “That fear is the path to the dark side. He said that fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate and hate leads to suffering. He taught me that it is only when you are calm and at peace that you can tell the difference between good and bad. When you are fearful they look the same. He showed me how to let go of everything I feared to lose so that I could find this place of calm and peace. He changed my life.”

The great Jedi Master went on to successfully train Skywalker who managed to defeat Darth Vader saving the Republic and banishing the few remaining followers of the Dark Lord from both the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxies.

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