President Trump is Psychotic -- Psychiatrist L. Dodes Says

You have an idea on your head based on nothing but your gist that somebody has to be "personally examined" to form a diagnosis, that's simply not correct when there is the greater good of the community/nation/world we all live on to serve. There are exceptions to most rules.

Normal people think Trump is playing a role, its only partly true. Truly grasping and certainly seeing patients adversely affected by him they are inclined to warn the community of which they are a part and also at risk.

The idea of "duty to warn" has been examined many times and it always lands on once a psychiatrist (or other therapist) believes a patient is a serious danger, they have to speak up.

"Justice Matthew Tobriner of the California Supreme Court, in the now-famous Tarasoff cases, who created a therapist-specific version of the legal “duty to warn” of tort law, overriding the therapist’s ethical duty of confidentiality. Writing for the majority in his 1976 opinion, he declared that in “this risk-infested society we can hardly tolerate the further exposure to danger that would result from a concealed knowledge of the therapist that his patient was lethal.”
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And they were correct, Trump was lethal to tens and likely hundreds of thousands. If he was in again, another disaster would unfold as the parts of him that are not an act will ensure that.

It is their own medical society, the American Psychiatric Association, stating that it is unethical and improper for psychiatrists to push claims about an individual they never personally examined.

How will you like it when a group of psychiatrists -- all of them registered Republicans -- push claims that Biden is unsound of mind, has dementia, and is unfit to be President.
There are reasons the Goldwater rule is in place -- prevent quacks from pushing their "analysis" for political or personal purposes.
 
It is their own medical society, the American Psychiatric Association, stating that it is unethical and improper for psychiatrists to push claims about an individual they never personally examined.

How will you like it when a group of psychiatrists -- all of them registered Republicans -- push claims that Biden is unsound of mind, has dementia, and is unfit to be President.
There are reasons the Goldwater rule is in place -- prevent quacks from pushing their "analysis" for political or personal purposes.
Yeah, yeah. But with that said, Trump is a nutjob. And you know it.
 
Yeah, yeah. But with that said, Trump is a nutjob. And you know it.

I can believe that Trump is a nutjob.... but no group of psychiatrists - who never personally examined Trump - should be pushing this as their professional opinion publicly. The key word here being "professional" -- which holds them to a higher standard.
 
I can believe that Trump is a nutjob.... but no group of psychiatrists - who never personally examined Trump - should be pushing this as their professional opinion publicly. The key word here being "professional" -- which holds them to a higher standard.
Well, you and I both know it, and would bet money on the fact that Trump is a nutjob. And we're not even psychiatrists. So don't you think they're better equipped to draw such a conclusion?

In principle, I agree that such diagnoses ought not be made lightly and from a distance. At least as it applies to borderline cases. Trump is not a borderline case. There is no doubt.
 
It is their own medical society, the American Psychiatric Association, stating that it is unethical and improper for psychiatrists to push claims about an individual they never personally examined.

How will you like it when a group of psychiatrists -- all of them registered Republicans -- push claims that Biden is unsound of mind, has dementia, and is unfit to be President.
There are reasons the Goldwater rule is in place -- prevent quacks from pushing their "analysis" for political or personal purposes.

Of course they will. But thay had no choice given the extreme consequences which clearly were well founded.

Psychiatrists are medical doctors, will sports broadcasts stop their medical doctors discussing the potential consequences of injuries of players they have not personally seen etc?

You are getting tiresome.

Trump is not a 'nutjob' as you try and trivialise it, he is a megalomanic, grandiose narcissist and smarter than you are for practical purposes, far more so at the same age. His actions are predictable within a certain range for any experts in his condition. You need to actually think about the duty to warn Greg and they were perfectly correct to do so and it did in fact cost life on a massive sale.

Get your head out of your ass.
 
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For the last year or so, this thread is just a convenient effort to switch the topic. Brandon is in charge. It does not go well. So, let's keep talking about Trump. I would like to hear more discussions about the present but it is so sad that people like you do not want to talk about it. When I said "like you" I mean all who voted for the disaster a year ago. Thank you for all your efforts.
 
For the last year or so, this thread is just a convenient effort to switch the topic. Brandon is in charge. It does not go well. So, let's keep talking about Trump. I would like to hear more discussions about the present but it is so sad that people like you do not want to talk about it. When I said "like you" I mean all who voted for the disaster a year ago. Thank you for all your efforts.
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