Its official: Top psychiatrists at Yale conference warn that Trump has a dangerous mental illnes

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Source: Raw Story




21 Apr 2017 at 11:58 ET



35 psychiatrists this week gathered at a conference at Yale to sound the alarm on what they believe is President Donald Trump’s “dangerous mental illness.”

Per The Independent, the psychiatrists met at Yale’s School of Medicine on Thursday to talk about Donald Trump’s mental health, which they warned was frighteningly unstable.

“We have an ethical responsibility to warn the public about Donald Trump’s dangerous mental illness,” said Dr. John Gartner, a practicing psychotherapist who advised psychiatric residents at Johns Hopkins University Medical School and who has in the past warned Trump is a “psychiatric Frankenstein monster.”

Gartner and other psychiatrists at the conference argued that Trump suffers from a particularly malignant case of pathological narcissism, which makes him a danger to the country and the world.

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They say it’s their “ethical responsibility” to warn Americans about the President's state of mind. And they believe he is “paranoid” and “delusional.” Josh King has the story (@abridgetoland).



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[CTyankee]

1. I don't know if that makes me feel better or worse...

I occasionally just get scared out of my mind...

[MindPilot]

2. Are we sure this is a medical condition?

IMHO he is just a stupid asshole.

[riversedge]

5. that too.

[SCantiGOP]

16. No, it is not "official"

It is a tenet of law, and in the psychiatric code of ethics, that no one can be diagnosed other than in person.

[YOHABLO]

3. So what does a Democratic society do with someone with mental illness leading the country?

If he's mentally ill, then that would be reason to either step down, or be impeached and removed. I know Abraham Lincoln suffered from depression but ''pathological narcissism" ? Wow, the Founding Fathers never could have imagined something of this sort and probably didn't have a clue as to how to deal with it legislatively. How many thousands of psychiatrists must sit down in front of Congress and declare him incompetent?

[tanyev]

6. What the Founding Fathers never imagined was that majority leadership of the House and the Senate

would either be complicit or turn a blind eye to an obviously unfit candidate because of their own obsessive lust for power.

[MelissaB]

4. No kidding. I could have told them this a year ago.

He's my aunt in male form.

[mopinko]

7. he is free to prove them wrong. he can submit to an actual

physical exam, for one thing. an mri of his head, imho, would show a whole lot of holes.
he can take a neuropsyche exam. no doubt he would try to bluff his way through the psyche part. they arent really accurate if the person doesnt want an honest answer. but the neuro part? he would flunk bigly.

why we dont require candidate for prez to show themselves to ACTUALLY be fit for office is beyond me.

[RainCaster]

8. BFD. Sad to say, but this isn't news.

The GOP doesn't care if he is loony, as long as he is their loon.

[calimary]

10. Welcome to DU, RainCaster!

That's sad but true.

Nothing of which we haven't been painfully well aware for quite some time.

For the GOP, though, it's a CLASSIC case of "be careful what you wish for, because you might get it."

[EarthFirst]

9. I'm not sure I'm comfortable with making a clinical diagnosis without having evaluated...

the individual.

This has the potential to set bad precedent.

[nocalflea]

14. Ah, the voice of reason.

You're right of course. There are many opinions out there about Trump - from this (above) to dementia and back again . The only one I haven't heard is traumatic brain injury.

[Hortensis]

15. 40 years of behavior documented visually on TV and video,

on radio and other recordings, his own written statements, court records (over 3500 court records!), statements by many people who knew and worked with him for years, biographers sanctioned by Rump to follow him around and observe his day to day behavior for months and even years?

Do we really think psychiatrists who spend 45 minutes interviewing a total stranger can make a more reliable clinical diagnosis than those who have this wealth of information on decades of Trump's behavior available to them?

What is a bad precedent is their devastating refusal to do their duty. And the enormous hypocrisy of claiming "ethics" did not allow them to!!! Unbelievable -- "ethics" did not allow them to make even a general statement of what virtually every mental health professional in the nation knew, including my half sister who is a psychologist: That this man at very least has an extremely serious personality disorder of the cluster B type. Now, after he's taken office, they're saying it not just that but an even more dangerous, "malignant" type.

This industry as a whole watched classic symptoms and symptom patterns, some far more complex and/or subtle that most people know to watch for, play out for over a year and DID NOTHING, not even state their observations in general terms while withholding a specific diagnosis.

Cowardly, unethical bastards! They completely failed their duty to their nation. If not them, who?

[Sculpin Beauregard]

27. Excellent statement, I agree 1000%.

[NoodleyAppendage]

30. Well said!

Trump is most certainly within a Cluster B Personality Disorder and it doesn't take a clinical interview to ascertain it. What would one glean from a clinical interview that would refute decades of public statements and observable behavior?

[OKIsItJustMe]

17. The American Psychiatric Association's "Goldwater rule"

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-dangerous-mental-illness-yale-psychiatrist-conference-us-president-unfit-james-gartner-a7694316.html

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Responding to the criticism, Dr Gartner said: “This notion that you need to personally interview someone to form a diagnosis actually doesn’t make a whole lotta sense. For one thing, research shows that the psychiatric interview is the least statistical reliable way to make a diagnosis.”

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[JudyM]

22. Then they ought to say, it seems, that it is incumbent on him to sit for a test by a panel of

reputable expert diagnosticians.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

11. "A duty to warn the public"----

So what are we supposed to do about it???

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[Eyeball_Kid]

13. That, my good fellow, is up to the extremely capable body politic.

And you know how capable the Republican Party is, don't you?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

24. Yeah, that's the problem.

😟

[OKIsItJustMe]

18. Warn your Senators and House member

Don’t follow the leadership of a crazy man.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

25. Lucky thing my rep and senators are great Dems.

If I were in repuke land it would be a different story.

[OKIsItJustMe]

12. Donald Trump has 'dangerous mental illness', say psychiatry experts at Yale conference

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-dangerous-mental-illness-yale-psychiatrist-conference-us-president-unfit-james-gartner-a7694316.html

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[font size=3]Donald Trump has a “dangerous mental illness” and is not fit to lead the US, a group of psychiatrists has warned during a conference at Yale University.

Mental health experts claimed the President was “paranoid and delusional”, and said it was their “ethical responsibility” to warn the American public about the “dangers” Mr Trump’s psychological state poses to the country.

Speaking at the conference at Yale’s School of Medicine on Thursday, one of the mental health professionals, Dr John Gartner, a practising psychotherapist who advised psychiatric residents at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, said: “We have an ethical responsibility to warn the public about Donald Trump's dangerous mental illness.”

Dr Gartner, who is also a founding member of Duty to Warn, an organisation of several dozen mental health professionals who think Mr Trump is mentally unfit to be president, said the President's statement about having the largest crowd at an inauguration was just one of many that served as warnings of a larger problem.

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[Judi Lynn]

19. The Republicans are more than happy to have him there, as long as he will sign their legislation

no matter what he does, or what he is.

They don't give a ####.

They are diseased, themselves. Born without conscience, born without character, born without honor to piles of skin-covered garbage.

[kairos12]

20. Exactly. Drumpt is the rethug Bonzo the autopen.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

26. Exactly so.

You can say that again.

[barbtries]

21. no shit.

this has been so obvious for so long. sad thing is, the country is sick too. that anybody would support him is bad enough, but it numbers in the millions. we are a very sick country.

[X_Digger]

23. It was fucking stupid when Bill Frist practiced telemedicicine on Terry Schaivo.

It's still stupid.

[PJMcK]

28. Too little too late, docs

There is nothing in Donald Trump's behavior since he was inaugurated that has changed from before he announced he was running for president. Nothing.

These doctors are a bit late in warning the country about the dangers that this man's psychology present. Why didn't they speak up earlier? What good does their remote diagnosis do for us at this late date. It might have been helpful to the broader public to hear these august observations before voters went to the polls. Now, their conference-- at Yale, no less-- is nothing but ivory tower navel-gazing. Thanks, docs.

[Gothmog]

29. Water is also wet