Psychiatry Group's Members Now Free To Comment On Trump's Mental State
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 Trumps mental health.
We dont want to prohibit our members from using their knowledge responsibly, the groups former president Prudence Gourguechon told STAT, a health and medicine news site. She said mental health experts have an especially important responsibility today, given Trumps behavior is so different than anything weve 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.
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/psychiatry-group-members-now-free-comment-trump-mental-state
tblue37
(65,487 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)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
(7,220 posts)poor child hasn't a chance at being a decent functioning human being.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)LeftInTX
(25,551 posts)Psychoanalysis is Freudian.
I have no idea how they would diagnose Trump.
Juliusseizure
(562 posts)Trump is the poster child for severe narcissism. Every statement and act confirms it.
The River
(2,615 posts)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
(12,634 posts)dog-whistle campaign slogan: "In your heart you know he's right" (he was perceived as a segregationist)
gordianot
(15,245 posts)What Donald Trump is today was well seeded in 1963.