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Devika Shah

Dr. Devika Shah was an Indian American clinical psychologist of Gujarati heritage who worked in Patuxent Institution’s Eligible Persons Program. She treated Andre Moore for severe obsessive-compulsive disorder and provided individual therapy to Raymond Holloman. Devika and the Patuxent clinical team also identified Raymond’s fetal alcohol spectrum disorder after he had spent more than sixty years without an accurate diagnosis.

Career at Patuxent

Devika served as a staff psychologist in the Eligible Persons Program. Her documented work included individual therapy, exposure and response prevention, support during psychiatric medication management, and participation in the program’s diagnostic process.

She was also listed among the institutional responders during the 2030 Patuxent flu outbreak. Her specific actions during that emergency were not established.

Clinical Work

Andre Moore

Main article: Andre Moore (Medication Journey)

Devika was Andre’s treating psychologist. She understood his contamination, checking, and symmetry symptoms as severe obsessive-compulsive disorder rather than defiance. His treatment combined exposure and response prevention with psychiatric medication support.

Medication reduced some symptoms but also caused sweating and gastrointestinal effects that intensified Andre’s contamination fears. Devika helped him tolerate uncertainty about that tradeoff and work with a regimen that provided partial relief without meeting his disorder’s demand for a perfect answer.

Raymond Holloman

Main article: Raymond Holloman (Wrongful Conviction Journey)

Devika provided individual therapy to Raymond. She and other Patuxent staff became the first institutional clinicians to identify his longstanding cognitive differences accurately. The program diagnosed an alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorder after Raymond was past sixty, decades after the impairment had contributed to his wrongful conviction and institutionalization.

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