We shouldn’t alter our message to placate those who are unwell because they’re already on a course that is self-destructive.” When asked whether or not the book aims to persuade #MAGA believers, Lee said, “They may be beyond convincing. (Trump’s brand of denialism doesn’t warrant Twitter attention to those with the letters PhD after their name.) Lee said that criticisms have come mostly over email from people who couldn’t put a coherent sentence together. The book has not yet been trolled by the #MAGA audience or the phony #MAGA bots. In writing the book, Lee and her colleagues were “not so much deterred by the Goldwater rule as we were by fear of being targeted by a litigious president or some of his violence prone followers.”
#TRUMP PSYCHOTIC BREAK PROFESSIONAL#
The “duty to warn” is how these experts claim to evade the American Psychiatric Association’s “Goldwater rule,” which states that “it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement.” Lee says the lines are blurred when the stakes are this high, when there is a “serious mental instability impacting the public sphere.” They have a duty to the public, not just individual patients.
And we as a profession are late in sounding the warnings." We sound an alarm when there’s risk of harm. “We have a moral and civic duty to warn and to protect the public. What it's really about "is pointing out the danger,” which is different from making a diagnosis, Lee said. In every chapter, the authors cop to the impossibility of definitively diagnosing the president without clinical interviews. "We sound an alarm when there’s risk of harm.
#TRUMP PSYCHOTIC BREAK UPDATE#
Their assessment spans Trump's life with a focus on his campaign and the early months of his tenure (taunting North Korea will have to be added if Lee and company ever update epilogue). This book is their response, and it holds nothing back.Īssembled are the country’s heavy-hitters in the field of psychology to break down the president’s personality traits, which they find consistent with narcissistic personality disorder, sociopathy, paranoia, hypomania, and other illnesses.
The experts recognized that Trump is not the first president to harbor symptoms of mental illness-a 2006 study found that roughly half of our past presidents likely suffered from mental illness-but he's the first to pose a significant threat requiring action. Lee organizing a ethics conference that explored Trump's mental health and how psychiatry experts should respond. You might recall news from earlier this year of Dr. Edited by Professor Bandy Lee, a forensic psychiatrist at the Yale School of Medicine, the book introduces 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts who make the case that “anyone as mentally unstable as this man should not be entrusted with the life-and-death-powers of the presidency.” Its impact might amount to conscience-clearing, but a deeper look reveals a new way to discuss just how volatile Trump and the American way of life has become. But with the release of a new book, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, these thin notions around the president’s instability are fortified for the first time, invigorating the probes surrounding the mental health of the president.
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