Charles Joseph Sophy, Doctor of Osteopathy, is a Los Angeles-based psychiatrist, and Medical Director for the County of Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services.
Education
Sophy attended high school at Nativity Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine High School in Pottsville, Pennsylvania and obtained his Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1982. He graduated from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1986, and completed his internship and family practice residency at the Metropolitan Hospital/Springfield Hospital in Springfield, Pennsylvania. He completed his Adult Psychiatry residency at Norristown State Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania followed by a fellowship for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Hahnemann University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Career
Sophy published his book, Side By Side The Revolutionary Mother-Daughter Program for Conflict-Free Communication, in 2010. He is a child mental health expert on Videojug, where he has addressed Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder as well as other child mental health issues. In Sophy v. Commissioner, he and the co-owner of their two homes sued because the Internal Revenue Service had limited the amount of their deductible home mortgage interest expense.
The case held that unmarried co-owners are limited to the same amount of deduction that a married couple would be, by establishing that the maximum allowable deduction is determined per residence, not per tax return.
Elliot Rodger named Sophy as his psychiatrist in a typed 138-page manifesto sent to KEYT-television and other media outlets prior to the 2014 Isla Vista killings. Sophy was among about one dozen people who received a mailed copy of the manifesto from Rodger.
Sophy prescribed Risperidone to Rodger. He did not take the medication, writing that "After researching this medication, I found that it was the absolute wrong thing for me to take.
I refused to take it, and I never saw Doctor Sophy again after that.".
