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Yes, it was a reference to MAOIs; the point was to tell Jodie Foster’s character that he was supposed to have been in medication, but that he hadn’t been taking them, since, as noted, the meal would have been dangerous had he been taking them. As others have noted, MAOIs aren’t typically used for his likely diagnoses (in fact, by then they weren’t used for much of anything), but that wasn’t the point. The point was Lechter showing off that he was smarter than the psychiatrists that were supposed to be treating him.

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Yes, it was a reference to MAOIs; the point was to tell Jodie Foster’s character that he was supposed to have been in medication, but that he hadn’t been taking them, since, as noted, the meal would have been dangerous had he been taking them. As others have noted, MAOIs aren’t typically used for his likely diagnoses (in fact, by then they weren’t used for much of anything), but that wasn’t the point. The point was Lechter showing off that he was smarter than the psychiatrists that were supposed to be treating him.

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