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[quote=Anonymous]This really is pathetic:

The title should read "Partisan lawmakers briefed on Trump's mental health" since according to the linked article  [b]"all of the lawmakers in attendance were Democrats, except for one Republican senator."[/b] No one is named but I suspect they include those who voted for his impeachment recently in a vote that most Democrats in the House would not support.

Lee is one of those involved [i]"in a book of essays published in October, two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists challenged strictures laid down by their professions’ leaders and publicly probed Trump’s mental state. “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump” is a recitation of evidence for what they contend is Trump’s malignant narcissism, hedonism and sociopathy."

The authors’ defiance has won them a harsh rebuke from Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, a past president of the American Psychiatric Assn. Lieberman denounced the book of essays as “tawdry, indulgent, fatuous tabloid psychiatry.”

The book of essays, edited by Yale School of Medicine psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee, has been a finger in the eye of the American Psychiatric Assn., which in 1973 issued a prohibition against public diagnosis by its members. In what is widely known as “the Goldwater Rule,” the APA declared it “unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion” on a public figure “unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement.”

That rule was crafted to avert any repeat of a Cold-War-era incident that caused the psychiatry establishment acute embarrassment. In an article titled "The Unconscious of a Conservative,” Fact Magazine reported in 1964 that 1,189 psychiatrists believed Goldwater to be “psychologically unfit to be president.” Goldwater went on to sue the magazine for libel — and won.

Almost a decade later, the APA’s first-ever ethics committee crafted the Goldwater Rule.[/i]

I did not vote for Trump and actually think he is in over his head but the sort of analysis reflected above is just ludicrous.

[url]http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-psychiatrists-trump-book-20171230-story.html[/url]

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