Its official: Top psychiatrists at Yale conference warn that Trump has a dangerous mental illnes
Source: Raw Story
21 Apr 2017 at 11:58 ET
35 psychiatrists this week gathered at a conference at Yale to sound the alarm on what they believe is President Donald Trumps dangerous mental illness.
Per The Independent, the psychiatrists met at Yales School of Medicine on Thursday to talk about Donald Trumps mental health, which they warned was frighteningly unstable.
We have an ethical responsibility to warn the public about Donald Trumps dangerous mental illness, said Dr. John Gartner, a practicing psychotherapist who advised psychiatric residents at Johns Hopkins University Medical School and who has in the past warned Trump is a psychiatric Frankenstein monster.
Gartner and other psychiatrists at the conference argued that Trump suffers from a particularly malignant case of pathological narcissism, which makes him a danger to the country and the world.
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Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/its-official-top-psychiatrists-at-yale-conference-warn-that-trump-has-a-dangerous-mental-illness/
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Psychiatrists Warn President Trump Is 'Paranoid' and 'Delusional'
Duration: 00:57 2 hrs ago
They say its their ethical responsibility to warn Americans about the President's state of mind. And they believe he is paranoid and delusional. Josh King has the story (@abridgetoland).
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CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I occasionally just get scared out of my mind...
MindPilot
(12,693 posts)IMHO he is just a stupid asshole.
riversedge
(70,242 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)It is a tenet of law, and in the psychiatric code of ethics, that no one can be diagnosed other than in person.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)If he's mentally ill, then that would be reason to either step down, or be impeached and removed. I know Abraham Lincoln suffered from depression but ''pathological narcissism" ? Wow, the Founding Fathers never could have imagined something of this sort and probably didn't have a clue as to how to deal with it legislatively. How many thousands of psychiatrists must sit down in front of Congress and declare him incompetent?
tanyev
(42,564 posts)would either be complicit or turn a blind eye to an obviously unfit candidate because of their own obsessive lust for power.
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)He's my aunt in male form.
mopinko
(70,114 posts)physical exam, for one thing. an mri of his head, imho, would show a whole lot of holes.
he can take a neuropsyche exam. no doubt he would try to bluff his way through the psyche part. they arent really accurate if the person doesnt want an honest answer. but the neuro part? he would flunk bigly.
why we dont require candidate for prez to show themselves to ACTUALLY be fit for office is beyond me.
RainCaster
(10,882 posts)The GOP doesn't care if he is loony, as long as he is their loon.
calimary
(81,304 posts)That's sad but true.
Nothing of which we haven't been painfully well aware for quite some time.
For the GOP, though, it's a CLASSIC case of "be careful what you wish for, because you might get it."
EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)the individual.
This has the potential to set bad precedent.
nocalflea
(1,387 posts)You're right of course. There are many opinions out there about Trump - from this (above) to dementia and back again . The only one I haven't heard is traumatic brain injury.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)on radio and other recordings, his own written statements, court records (over 3500 court records!), statements by many people who knew and worked with him for years, biographers sanctioned by Rump to follow him around and observe his day to day behavior for months and even years?
Do we really think psychiatrists who spend 45 minutes interviewing a total stranger can make a more reliable clinical diagnosis than those who have this wealth of information on decades of Trump's behavior available to them?
What is a bad precedent is their devastating refusal to do their duty. And the enormous hypocrisy of claiming "ethics" did not allow them to!!! Unbelievable -- "ethics" did not allow them to make even a general statement of what virtually every mental health professional in the nation knew, including my half sister who is a psychologist: That this man at very least has an extremely serious personality disorder of the cluster B type. Now, after he's taken office, they're saying it not just that but an even more dangerous, "malignant" type.
This industry as a whole watched classic symptoms and symptom patterns, some far more complex and/or subtle that most people know to watch for, play out for over a year and DID NOTHING, not even state their observations in general terms while withholding a specific diagnosis.
Cowardly, unethical bastards! They completely failed their duty to their nation. If not them, who?
Sculpin Beauregard
(1,046 posts)NoodleyAppendage
(4,619 posts)Trump is most certainly within a Cluster B Personality Disorder and it doesn't take a clinical interview to ascertain it. What would one glean from a clinical interview that would refute decades of public statements and observable behavior?
OKIsItJustMe
(19,938 posts)Responding to the criticism, Dr Gartner said: This notion that you need to personally interview someone to form a diagnosis actually doesnt make a whole lotta sense. For one thing, research shows that the psychiatric interview is the least statistical reliable way to make a diagnosis.
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JudyM
(29,251 posts)reputable expert diagnosticians.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)So what are we supposed to do about it???
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Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)And you know how capable the Republican Party is, don't you?
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)😟
OKIsItJustMe
(19,938 posts)Dont follow the leadership of a crazy man.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)If I were in repuke land it would be a different story.
OKIsItJustMe
(19,938 posts)[font size=4]Mental health experts say President is 'paranoid and delusional'[/font]
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[font size=3]Donald Trump has a dangerous mental illness and is not fit to lead the US, a group of psychiatrists has warned during a conference at Yale University.
Mental health experts claimed the President was paranoid and delusional, and said it was their ethical responsibility to warn the American public about the dangers Mr Trumps psychological state poses to the country.
Speaking at the conference at Yales School of Medicine on Thursday, one of the mental health professionals, Dr John Gartner, a practising psychotherapist who advised psychiatric residents at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, said: We have an ethical responsibility to warn the public about Donald Trump's dangerous mental illness.
Dr Gartner, who is also a founding member of Duty to Warn, an organisation of several dozen mental health professionals who think Mr Trump is mentally unfit to be president, said the President's statement about having the largest crowd at an inauguration was just one of many that served as warnings of a larger problem.
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Judi Lynn
(160,542 posts)no matter what he does, or what he is.
They don't give a ####.
They are diseased, themselves. Born without conscience, born without character, born without honor to piles of skin-covered garbage.
kairos12
(12,862 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)You can say that again.
barbtries
(28,798 posts)this has been so obvious for so long. sad thing is, the country is sick too. that anybody would support him is bad enough, but it numbers in the millions. we are a very sick country.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)It's still stupid.
PJMcK
(22,037 posts)There is nothing in Donald Trump's behavior since he was inaugurated that has changed from before he announced he was running for president. Nothing.
These doctors are a bit late in warning the country about the dangers that this man's psychology present. Why didn't they speak up earlier? What good does their remote diagnosis do for us at this late date. It might have been helpful to the broader public to hear these august observations before voters went to the polls. Now, their conference-- at Yale, no less-- is nothing but ivory tower navel-gazing. Thanks, docs.