Full title: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President If there’s already a thread on this, I missed it. Also, I put it in CS, 'cause it’s a book, but maybe it needs to be moved?
Reviewed in the Washington Post along with other books on related topics.
The very best assessments are by psychiatrists who have never met the patient.
Seriously, there’s even precedent. I don’t think that you necessarily can’t, but you probably shouldn’t…
Interesting…
Could lead to even greater rigour in presidential races.
“You’re a loony !”
*“No, you’re a loony !”
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“No, you’re a loony !”
*“No, you’re a loony !”
*etc…
Hilariously enough, with some quick googling you can also find multiple psychiatrists and other mental health experts saying the exact same thing about other presidents, notably then-current articles on George W Bush and Barrack Obama which also charge them with narcissistic personality disorder, sociopathy, paranoia and other mental diseases.
Of course not. However that’s irrelevant since we’re never going to get a real evaluation by a competent doctor of him (or any other President). The only examination that would ever would be allowed would be one by some partisan quack who’d announce he’s perfectly rational even if he was eating his own fingers at the time.
What are you talking about? We have an assessment that says he’s the healthiest person ever! Written in a style similar to his own speaking voice.
Oh, you said a competent doctor.
Quite possibly. However partisan idiocy such as this is no more pertinent, nor aware, than an equal assessment by 100 pinball arcade attendants, or 100 chambermaids, or a 100 insurance adjusters.
And even allowing for the snobbery in considering ‘professionals’ as having more weight, or that people conditioned by neurotic Jewish script writers into thinking a psychiatrist has deeper insight, presuming these bozos involved are movitated by anything but spite or had not reached their conclusions in advance beggars credulity.
Idiot Hillary — who had one job, just one job — boasted at the end 115 military endorsements of flag officer rank [ they liked the way her mind worked ! ], far more than the civilian Donald; such endorsements are only of such weight as one values the contributions and opinions of generals.
And the same goes for any other random group from a profession.
However, it is interesting to note America needs an American Psychiatric Association (APA), an American Psychological Association (APA), and an American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), from that Goldwater link. They should all have their annual meetings in the same hotel, leading to wacky hijinks.
Along with the** American Association of Psychics & Psychic Mediums**.
I’d lay out money on that being cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
I feel sorry for the trees who gave up their lives to be used to publish this crap. Can’t even use this as toilet paper to wipe your butt.
[Moderating]
While I realize that this is about a book, the topic of discussion is going to be the subject of the book, which is political. I think it’d be a much better fit for Elections than for here.
That would account for Krauthammer’s entire output during the Clinton administration.
I think it is completely obvious that Trump has mental health issues. Not because of his politics, but because of his personal behavior. I defy anyone to earnestly assert that he is a healthy, well-adjusted individual.
The only question really is whether his mental illnesses are of such a grave state that he is jeopardizing people’s lives. On that count, I agree that psychologists cannot adequately evaluate the issue. It is far more likely that the Cabinet may decide that under the 25th Amendment.
We can’t get good data, so let’s use shitty data. That makes sense. :smack:
It was silly when Sen. Frist diagnosed Terri Schivo from watching her on TV, it’s silly now for these doctors to try and do the same with Trumplethinskin. It doesn’t help. and it just gives his base something else to feel persecuted about.
A women who claims to take responsibilty for her election loss…but then writes a WHOLE book that (by various accounts I’ve seen) blames the loss on EVERYBODY else…
I detect a bit of narcissism there too…
You do understand that psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychoanalysts are three different medical specialties, with differing qualifications and roles in health care despite some overlap, and that rolling them together into one would be about as appropriate as rolling together, say, gastroenterologists, otolaryngologists, and endocrinologists?
Now you’re just making words up.
As mentally defective as Trump is, I have to admit that, my personal distaste for the man aside, he still probably can’t quite top Richard Nixon during the worst of his Watergate-induced psychosis. Generals took the extra-constitutional step of procuring the nuclear launch codes before Nixon’s resignation took effect. Some around him were genuinely worried about his state of mind and that he might want to send a nuclear middle finger to the world that hated him (as Nixon saw it anyway). Of course, this is not to say that Donald Trump couldn’t get to that point – I could see a Donald Trump meltdown, and God help us all if he does.
Yep. I think Trump is a danger to the country, and I don’t need some shrink to tell me that.