There will not be a book published this fall more urgent, important, or controversial than The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, the work of 27 psychiatrists, psychologists and mental health experts to assess President Trump’s mental health. They had come together last March at a conference at Yale University to wrestle with two questions. One was on countless minds across the country: “What’s wrong with him?” The second was directed to their own code of ethics: “Does Professional Responsibility Include a Duty to Warn” if they conclude the president to be dangerously unfit?
As mental health professionals, these men and women respect the long-standing “Goldwater rule” which inhibits them from diagnosing public figures whom they have not personally examined. At the same time, as explained by Dr. Bandy X Lee, who teaches law and psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, the rule does not have a countervailing rule that directs what to do when the risk of harm from remaining silent outweighs the damage that could result from speaking about a public figure—”which in this case, could even be the greatest possible harm.” It is an old and difficult moral issue that requires a great exertion of conscience. Their decision: “We respect the rule, we deem it subordinate to the single most important principle that guides our professional conduct: that we hold our responsibility to human life and well-being as paramount.”
Hence, this profound, illuminating and discomforting book undertaken as “a duty to warn.”
Their next undertaking should be to assess the mental health of the people who voted for, and still support, Donald Trump.
THAT could be a very enlightening book as well.
I know what my next purchase is going to be.
ReplyDeleteI can guess what it is. The majority of Americans already have done so.
DeleteT-HIS tOO?
DeleteOrders to Kill: The Putin Regime and Political Murder Hardcover – September 19, 2017
https://www.amazon.com/Orders-Kill-Regime-Political-Murder/dp/1250119340
" critics have turned up dead on a regular basis. According to Amy Knight, this is no coincidence. In Orders to Kill, the KGB scholar ties dozens of victims together to expose a campaign of political murder during Putin’s reign that even includes terrorist attacks such as the Boston Marathon Bombing."
“There is no proof,” NOW>
"where in America Donald Trump has claimed, “Nobody has proven that he's killed anyone....He's always denied it.…It has not been proven that he's killed reporters."
@9:39 hitman for Putin?
Deletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhmad_Kadyrov
I encourage everyone to read the interview at Mother Jones linked.
ReplyDeleteI have witnesses decent people start to believe lies as they are slowly conned that others are lying to them, not to be trusted and fear manipulated. Meanwhile the disordered con man lies he will provide all and everything to them and that the "other" is dangerous, wants them to have nothing and seeks to take everything away from them. When some catch in the con man was projecting and is guilty of lying promises, sabotaging, obstructing and delivering nothing the con man smears them that they are the pathological liars trying to ruin him.
That may all sound crazy and far fetched but these are patterns of disordered destructive personalities. A lot of Trump supporters have long believed the media are the bad guys, the ones who lie to them as an example.
Trump can't get along with anybody, can't get anything, can't stop lying, can't tell the truth, is a racist, is narcissistic, is a Russian sympathizing traitor and those are his good traits.
ReplyDeleteGet his ass out of the White House.
Regarding those who voted for and still support Trump, it is called the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZxCuymd_3E
Has anybody see Ivanka and Jared Kushner around the White House or with Donald? Are they keeping their distance?
ReplyDeleteLISTEN: Trump says he likes to grope Melania in public — and admits he may have psychological problems
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/trump-says-he-likes-to-grope-melania-in-public-and-admits-he-may-have-psychological-problems/
HE-Don-ism
Delete"Ivanka “looks down on me,”
“And charity gets a lot.”
", he discusses the relative hotness of his wives (and almost every other female celebrity of the moment) and his feelings about his daughter Ivanka,"Stern’s crew as they joked about who was more “GAY” and whether getting vomited on was more gross than EATing food that had been on someone’s anus."
"The real estate magnate usually called in when he had something to hawk- a book, a prizefight, his TV show"Trump has talked more to Stern than to any other single JOURNALIST or media personality, including Joe Scarborough, Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Chris Matthews, Larry King or Don Imus."
"On May 24, 2002, Trump again referred to getting “the right price” for Melania on a billboard.
Stern: She must be great in the sack. She must have magic. … She must do something.
Trump: Well, I let her do advertising down there because I got her for the right price, Howard [referring to Melania on a New York City billboard ad].I own 25 percent of Goodyear Tire and Rubber.
"She’s got accent."
"On October 10, 2001, discussing ways to prevent another 9/11, Trump had a novel suggestion. "You have a red button in the plane and the pilot has a huge problem in the back he's got two or three terrorists, you know crazy," Trump said. "He presses a button and sleeping gas comes out the entire back of the plane goes to sleep."
The interview archive resembles livestream from the boys’ table in a 7th grade cafeteria. Trump eagerly rated women’s bodies, shared details of sex with his wife and roared at scatological jokes."
“his bullying behavior, his immature remarks about sex, and his childlike need for constant attention, we can speculate that the traumatizing event was when he was sent away to military school at the age of thirteen.”
"Melania Trump went on CNN and told Anderson Cooper she had warned her husband that Stern was bad for him. “He was pushed on and many times, I give him an advice and I didn’t agree to do all the tapes on Howard Stern, with Billy Bush,” she said. “Because I know those people. They hook him on, they — they try to get from him some — some inappropriate and dirty language.” April 2016>
“I never anticipated running for office or being a politician, so I could have fun with Howard on the radio and everyone would love it. People do love it,” Trump said. “I could say whatever I wanted when I was an entrepreneur, a business guy.”
Signs That Trump’s Mind Is Gone As Gets Name Of Alabama Senate Candidate Wrong Twice
ReplyDeleteThe man who is supposed to be leading the country is so out of his mind that he got the name of Senate Roy Moore wrong twice in a local Alabama radio interview.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/09/25/signs-trumps-mind-alabama-senate-candidate-wrong.html
"The country needs to understand that Trump doesn’t bluster just as an act. He also filiblusters to hide what he doesn’t know or can’t remember. Trump’s habit of getting names, places, and other details wrong isn’t some elaborate gimmick. It’s a sign that the man occupying the Oval Office is not mentally capable of handling the job.
DeleteWhen Trump is live and unscripted, he sends big red flags that as scary as it sounds, the President Of The United States is mentally unfit for office."
I think Trump may have some early signs of dementia but that doesn't excuse or justify the fact that he has been a lying, cheating, racist, corrupt asshole his entire adult life. He should be punished with this in mind and not treated with more compassion simply because dementia may be an increasing factor nowadays.
Delete913am: YES.
DeleteThe Associated Press
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BREAKING: North Korea's foreign minister says Trump's latest statement was "a declaration of war" against his country.
13 minutes ago · Twitter
"North Korea's foreign minister said on Monday that President Donald Trump had declared war on North Korea and that Pyongyang reserves the right to take countermeasures, including shooting down U.S. strategic bombers even if they are not in the country's air space."
Delete“The whole world should clearly remember it was the U.S. who FIR$'T' declared WAR on our country,”
War sells stocks baby. Jump on the train to hell. Or be left standing there like a ninny. Money talks baby.;)
DeleteThat was snark by the way.
FYI. Anthony Weiner>" He pleaded guilty in May to transferring obscene messages to a minor, and agreed he would not appeal any sentence of 27 months or less."
ReplyDeletehe acted out of the “depths of an uncontrolled sickness” and was now being treated." <GOOD.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/ex-us-congressman-anthony-weiner-sentenced-to-21-months-for-teen-sexting/
O/T: the bribes are in full force. By now, FOUR states (Alaska, Maine, Arizona and Kentucky) will get extra money under the proposed healthcare bill.
ReplyDeleteI guess, the rest of the states should all band together and boycott the bill, until THEY get some extra money, too!
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/collins-cruz-signal-opposition-graham-cassidy
Places where Sarah can get a free head shrink exam. ;)
DeleteGee, would that have anything to do with Murkowski, Collins, McCain and Rand Paul being NO votes?
DeleteIs it legal to BUY votes? I guess only if you're the president, speaker of the House or Senate Majority leader and you're buying OUR representatives.
And, Lisa Murkowski will take the money! Fuck her and don't reelect her, Alaskans!
ReplyDeleteLets hope not but I am not optimistic.
DeleteI wonder if the book will address the mental state of those that elected him? That would be the most interesting part.
ReplyDeleteI'm convinced it was a combination of 1) true deplorables and 2) mass delusion that Don the Con knew JUST how to feed.
DeleteI'm more worried about the mindset of the Bernie voters who didn't get their way, and turned around to vote for Trump. Now those people have serious problems!
ReplyDeleteAnd you're proving their point and justifying their position.
DeleteSergei.