Psychiatry Group's Members Now Free To Comment On Trump's Mental State

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By NICOLE LAFOND Published JULY 25, 2017 9:49 AM

A prominent psychiatry group has given members permission to publicly weigh in on the mental health of politicians and public figures, abolishing a decades-old rule that kept specialists from commenting on behaviors and the psychiatric health of public figures without first examining them.

The move gives the 3,500 members of the American Psychoanalytic Association the green light to speak openly about President Donald Trump’s mental health.

“We don’t want to prohibit our members from using their knowledge responsibly,” the group’s former president Prudence Gourguechon told STAT, a health and medicine news site. She said mental health experts have an especially important responsibility today, given “Trump’s behavior is so different than anything we’ve seen before” in a President.

The restriction, coined the “Goldwater rule” has been in place since the 1960s when psychiatrists answered survey questions on whether then-Sen. Barry Goldwater, who was running for President that year, was fit for the office.

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[tblue37]

1. K&R for visibility. nt

[Sunlei]

2. what effect does this man have on children exposed to his yelling & comments?

should his 11 year old have free access to twitter? I don't think twitter allows children to register...I

s Mr. Trump allowing an 11 year old to view all that porn off his personal account?

what effect does this have on a child?

[flibbitygiblets]

9. You just know that kid's already heard the un-editited version of the "boy scout speech"

poor child hasn't a chance at being a decent functioning human being.

[RKP5637]

3. K&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[LeftInTX]

4. They are a very small group, not the American Psychiatric Association

Psychoanalysis is Freudian.
I have no idea how they would diagnose Trump.

[Juliusseizure]

6. Observation/Life pattern/Tweets/interviews

Trump is the poster child for severe narcissism. Every statement and act confirms it.

[The River]

5. In Your Guts

You know he's Nuts!

For those not yet born when Goldwater ran: This was a common response when his name came up in conversation.

[marybourg]

7. The response was to Goldwater's

dog-whistle campaign slogan: "In your heart you know he's right" (he was perceived as a segregationist)

[gordianot]

8. Goldwater in 1963 changed a decade later.

What Donald Trump is today was well seeded in 1963.