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and comment on Trumps mental health
A leading psychiatry group has told its members they should not feel bound by a longstanding rule against commenting publicly on the mental state of public figures even the president.
The statement, an email this month from the executive committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association to its 3,500 members, represents the first significant crack in the professions decades-old united front aimed at preventing experts from discussing the psychiatric aspects of politicians behavior. It will likely make many of its members feel more comfortable speaking openly about President Trumps mental health.
The impetus for the email was belief in the value of psychoanalytic knowledge in explaining human behavior, said psychoanalytic association past president Dr. Prudence Gourguechon, a psychiatrist in Chicago. We dont want to prohibit our members from using their knowledge responsibly.
https://www.statnews.com/2017/07/25/psychiatry-goldwater-rule-trump/
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I was tired of this stupid rule being used to invalidate diagnoses.
Gothmog
(144,919 posts)rock
(13,218 posts)To not be allowed to say, "Avoid Jack the Ripper, he has anti-social proclivities."
47of74
(18,470 posts)Namely that the Orange Shitgibbon Ferret Face is out of his fucking mind.