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14he did not follow through with this. Around the same time, in 1991, he made an appointmentwith another female physician in Missoula, Montana, seeking evaluation and treatment forsymptoms of palpitations and stress. He saw her twice and reported to her on his blood pressureover the next several years. He developed the belief that there was the potential of an ongoingrelationship with her, and in that context he made the decision to acquire a more conventionalcareer. He decided to attend school at the undergraduate level to obtain a degree in journalism.He corresponded with the University of Montana and subsequently was required to take theGraduate Record Exam. Even after he determined that there was not a possibility of an actualrelationship with the physician, he took the exam anyway and reportedly scored quite well. Henever matriculated to the University. While this was going on he wrote a letter to a localcommunity mental health center in 1993 concerning his problem of insomnia and asking forlocation of a suitable psychiatrist that he could see on a reduced fee basis. There was no followthrough with an appointment.Court ProcessShortly after his arrest, Kaczynski was transferred from the county jail in Montana to afacility in Sacramento, where a team of federal defenders was assigned to his case. From thebeginning, Kaczynski and his defenders were on a collision course. It was clear to the defenseteam that an insanity defense was not a serious possibility and that the only realistic goal wouldbe to avoid the death penalty through the use of psychiatric impairment as a mitigating factor inthe sentencing phase of the legal process. Their strategy, however, was to introduce the insanitydefense in the initial, guilt/innocence phase of the trial in the hope of familiarizing the jury withKaczynski’s mental illness for the sentencing phase. Kaczynski's intent, on the other hand, was