President Trump is Psychotic -- Psychiatrist L. Dodes Says

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Dr Lance Dodes, a former Harvard professor now with the Boston Psychoanalytic Society And Institute has argued President Trump

... is "a psychopath... an enormous present danger... a very sick man... displaying symptoms of psychosis". On Trump's compulsive tweeting, Dodes said, "The simple explanation for it is that he's not in control of himself. This is what we mean when we say that somebody is becoming psychotic or is briefly psychotic... All of his delusional ideas come up when he is stressed in some way and then he loses track of reality because it doesn't fit what he needs to believe." He also said it was "an extremely dangerous thing" for a position of power to be held by someone who "appears so wantonly unconcerned about the welfare of others and willing to do anything to promote himself".
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It's not as though we weren't warned: remember his very first official visit after his inauguration, to the HQ of the CIA? Smart move, I thought: he is going to build bridges after the rows with the intelligence community during the campaign. But no. He stood in front of the wall of stars commemorating CIA officers killed serving the US and created a huge storm about the media reports that there had been bigger crowds for Barack Obama's inauguration than his - which there had. At best, chronic narcissism; at worst, a personality disorder that would be pretty scary in anyone, but frankly terrifying when we are talking about the president of the United States. Which is why the shrinks are refusing to be silent, rule or no rule.
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https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/donald-trump-mental-health

 
piezoe said:
Dr Lance Dodes, a former Harvard professor now with the Boston Psychoanalytic Society And Institute has argued President Trump

... is "a psychopath... an enormous present danger... a very sick man... displaying symptoms of psychosis". On Trump's compulsive tweeting, Dodes said, "The simple explanation for it is that he's not in control of himself. This is what we mean when we say that somebody is becoming psychotic or is briefly psychotic... All of his delusional ideas come up when he is stressed in some way and then he loses track of reality because it doesn't fit what he needs to believe." He also said it was "an extremely dangerous thing" for a position of power to be held by someone who "appears so wantonly unconcerned about the welfare of others and willing to do anything to promote himself".
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It's not as though we weren't warned: remember his very first official visit after his inauguration, to the HQ of the CIA? Smart move, I thought: he is going to build bridges after the rows with the intelligence community during the campaign. But no. He stood in front of the wall of stars commemorating CIA officers killed serving the US and created a huge storm about the media reports that there had been bigger crowds for Barack Obama's inauguration than his - which there had. At best, chronic narcissism; at worst, a personality disorder that would be pretty scary in anyone, but frankly terrifying when we are talking about the president of the United States. Which is why the shrinks are refusing to be silent, rule or no rule.
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https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/donald-trump-mental-health
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A Harvard professor. I wonder if he is a democrat.

This is the old soviet abuse-of-psychiatry routine, where the commies would get all the lefty "mental health experts" to declare political opponents mentally incompetent before sending them for treatment at their "facility" in Siberia.

His nutjob colleague there at Harvard - Elizabeth Warren- is running around still in denial about whether she was at the Battle of the Little Big Horn or not but he is worried about Trump.
 
ttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/president-donald-trump
Trump’s manifest grandiosity and disregard for facts, beginning with failure to accept clear evidence about the size of the crowd attending his inauguration, put mental health professionals in the spotlight from Day One of his presidency. Mental health professionals and commentators from all ideological camps early converged on a label of narcissistic personality disorder as the condition that clearly “explains” Trump’s behavior. Many mental health professionals have come forward to make this assertion, including more than 70,000 who signed a petition warning of Trump's potential dangerousness, despite longstanding professional injunctions against "diagnosing" public figures whom experts have not personally examined. Americans remain divided as to how authoritarian or grandiose Trump may or may not be, and who has the authority to make clinical pronouncements or draw historical parallels.​
 
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/07/donald-trump-dangerous-psychiatrist
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There is another pattern by which he is dangerous. His cognitive function, or his ability to process knowledge and thoughts, has begun to be widely questioned. Many have noted a distinct decline in his outward ability to form complete sentences, to stay with a thought, to use complex words and not to make loose associations. This is dangerous because of the critical importance of decision-making capacity in the office that he holds. Cognitive decline can result from any number of causes – psychiatric, neurological, medical, or medication-induced – and therefore needs to be investigated. Likewise, we do not know whether psychiatric symptoms are due to a mental disorder, medication, or a physical condition, which only a thorough examination can reveal.

A diagnosis in itself, as much as it helps define the course, prognosis, and treatment, is Trump’s private business, but what is our affair is whether the president and commander-in-chief has the capacity to function in his office. Mental illness, or even physical disability, does not necessarily impair a president from performing his function. Rather, questions about this capacity mobilised us to speak out about our concerns, with the intent to warn and to educate the public, so that we can help protect its own safety and wellbeing.

At no other time has a group of mental health professionals been so concerned about a sitting president’s dangerousness

The progress of the special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigations was worrisome to us for the effects it would have on the president’s stability. We predicted that Trump, who has shown marked signs of psychological fragility under ordinary circumstances, barely able to cope with basic criticism or unflattering news, would begin to unravel with the encroaching indictments. And if his mental stability suffered, then so would public safety and international security.





Kim Jong-un’s new year speech increased tensions about who had the biggest nuclear button. Photograph: Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images

Indeed, that is what began to unfold: Trump became more paranoid, espousing once again conspiracy theories that he had let go of for a while. He seemed further to lose his grip on reality by denying his own voice on the Access Hollywood tapes. Also, the sheer frequency of his tweets seemed to reflect an agitated state of mind, and his retweeting some violent anti-Muslim videos showed his tendency to resort to violence when under pressure.

Trump views violence as a solution when he is stressed and desires to re-establish his power. Paranoia and overwhelming feelings of weakness and inadequacy make violence very attractive, and powerful weapons very tempting to use – all the more so for their power. His contest with the North Korean leader about the size of their nuclear buttons is an example of that and points to the possibility of great danger by virtue of the power of his position.

It does not take a mental health professional to see that a person of Trump’s impairments, in the office of the presidency, is a danger to us all. What mental health experts can offer is affirmation that these signs are real, that they may be worse than the untrained person suspects, and that there are more productive ways of handling them than deflection or denial.
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piezoe said:
Dr Lance Dodes, a former Harvard professor now with the Boston Psychoanalytic Society And Institute has argued President Trump

... is "a psychopath... an enormous present danger... a very sick man... displaying symptoms of psychosis". On Trump's compulsive tweeting, Dodes said, "The simple explanation for it is that he's not in control of himself. This is what we mean when we say that somebody is becoming psychotic or is briefly psychotic... All of his delusional ideas come up when he is stressed in some way and then he loses track of reality because it doesn't fit what he needs to believe." He also said it was "an extremely dangerous thing" for a position of power to be held by someone who "appears so wantonly unconcerned about the welfare of others and willing to do anything to promote himself".
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It's not as though we weren't warned: remember his very first official visit after his inauguration, to the HQ of the CIA? Smart move, I thought: he is going to build bridges after the rows with the intelligence community during the campaign. But no. He stood in front of the wall of stars commemorating CIA officers killed serving the US and created a huge storm about the media reports that there had been bigger crowds for Barack Obama's inauguration than his - which there had. At best, chronic narcissism; at worst, a personality disorder that would be pretty scary in anyone, but frankly terrifying when we are talking about the president of the United States. Which is why the shrinks are refusing to be silent, rule or no rule.
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https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/donald-trump-mental-health
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There are clear medical guidelines against a psychiatrist pushing claims about an individual they never personally examined. These guidelines are in place to prevent quacks from pushing their "analysis" for political or personal purposes. Lance Dodes has clearly violated these guidelines and should lose his credentials as well as membership in medical organizations immediately. Quacks like this are a worst threat to the United States than politicians.
 
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There are clear medical guidelines against a psychiatrist pushing claims about an individual they never personally examined. These guidelines are in place to prevent quacks from pushing their "analysis" for political or personal purposes. Lance Dodes has clearly violated these guidelines and should lose his credentials as well as membership in medical organizations immediately. Quacks like this are a worst threat to the United States than politicians.
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Not just Dodes, but the other 60,000 mental health professionals, "quacks" in your terminology, that have come forward to warn the nation of Trumps dangerous mental health will need to lose their credentials were the profession to follow your suggestion. Fortunately that will not happen. You probably would like to read up on the origin of the specific medical guideline you mentioned, referred to as the Goldwater rule. You can do that here https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-time-cure/201709/the-dangerous-case-donald-trump

Trumps specific diagnosis is sociopathic narcissism, a particularly pernicious form of the disorder. As psychiatrists have noted, his disorder is complicated by several other mental maladies which can, but do not always, accompany a diagnosis of sociopathic narcissism.
 
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piezoe said:
Not just Dodes, but the other 60,000 mental health professionals, "quacks" in your terminology, that have come forward to warn the nation of Trumps dangerous mental health will need to lose their credentials were the profession to follow your suggestion. Fortunately that will not happen. You probably would like to read up on the origin of the specific medical guideline you mentioned, referred to as the Goldwater rule. You can do that here https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-time-cure/201709/the-dangerous-case-donald-trump

Trumps specific diagnosis is sociopathic narcissism, a particularly pernicious form of the disorder.
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So 60,000 people went to some guy's "Duty to Warn" website and signed his online petition. There is very little evidence that even a fraction of them are mental health professionals.

The American Psychiatric Association has re-affirmed the Goldwater rule stating that mental health experts must not offer a professional diagnosis of any person they have not personally examined. They also sent a warning letter to all of their members about this after the Duty to Warn clowns started pushing their campaign.
 
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