Experts Wrote a Book About Donald Trumps Mental Health and the Controversy Has Just Begun

[factfinder_77]

There will not be a book published this fall more urgent, important, or controversial than The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, the work of 27 psychiatrists, psychologists and mental health experts to assess President Trump’s mental health. They had come together last March at a conference at Yale University to wrestle with two questions. One was on countless minds across the country: “What’s wrong with him?” The second was directed to their own code of ethics: “Does Professional Responsibility Include a Duty to Warn” if they conclude the president to be dangerously unfit?

As mental health professionals, these men and women respect the long-standing “Goldwater rule” which inhibits them from diagnosing public figures whom they have not personally examined. At the same time, as explained by Dr. Bandy X Lee, who teaches law and psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, the rule does not have a countervailing rule that directs what to do when the risk of harm from remaining silent outweighs the damage that could result from speaking about a public figure—”which in this case, could even be the greatest possible harm.” It is an old and difficult moral issue that requires a great exertion of conscience. Their decision: “We respect the rule, we deem it subordinate to the single most important principle that guides our professional conduct: that we hold our responsibility to human life and well-being as paramount.”

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/09/a-group-of-experts-wrote-a-book-about-donald-trumps-mental-health-and-the-controversy-has-just-begun/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. And why none of this will matter at all, why none of this will make any difference AT ALL

is the right in this country doesnt care about ethics, right and wrong, good and bad, or for that matter clean air, water, etc.

They simply dont care, and that includes rank and file middle class righty.

The sicker the diagnosis, the more support he will get.

[Control-Z]

3. Plus, most of them can't read that well. eom

[kairos12]

4. Unfortunately, Drumpt is digging their graves as well as ours.

[BigmanPigman]

2. I read about this on DU a few weeks ago.

They should make all future presidential candidate show their taxes for the past 5 years as well as have mental stability tests. The Donald is not only unstable or fit to be president but he is dangerous to the entire planet! This is serious!