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2017-04-23 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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

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Posted by Fred 2017-04-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 And how is that different than the harpy that ran against him?

Or Obumble and his delusions of grandeur?

Go eat a dick "experts". We don't need or want you.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-04-23 00:02|| 2017-04-23 00:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Grandma and Grandpa were watching a healing service on television.

The evangelist called to all who wanted to be healed to go to their television set, place one hand on the TV and the other hand on the body part they wanted to be healed.

Grandma got up and slowly hobbled to the television set, placed her right hand on the set and her left hand on her arthritic shoulder that was causing her great pain. Then Grandpa got up, went to the TV, placed his right hand on the set and his left hand on his crotch.

Grandma scowled at him and said, "The purpose of doing this is to heal the sick, not raise the dead." - Unknown

Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2017-04-23 00:28|| 2017-04-23 00:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union

"A crime is a deviation from generally recognized standards of behavior frequently caused by mental disorder. Can there be diseases, nervous disorders among certain people in a Communist society? Evidently yes. If that is so, then there will also be offences, which are characteristic of people with abnormal minds. Of those who might start calling for opposition to Communism on this basis, we can say that clearly their mental state is not normal." Nikita Khrushchev, May 24, 1959

There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as a psychiatric problem. It was called "psychopathological mechanisms" of dissent.

During the leadership of General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, psychiatry was used to disable and remove from society political opponents ("dissidents") who openly expressed beliefs that contradicted the official dogma.[4][5] The term "philosophical intoxication", for instance, was widely applied to the mental disorders diagnosed when people disagreed with the country's Communist leaders and, by referring to the writings of the Founding Fathers of Marxism–Leninism—Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Vladimir Lenin—made them the target of criticism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union

Posted by Slineque Hatrack6743 2017-04-23 00:32|| 2017-04-23 00:32|| Front Page Top

#4 So Trump is delusional because half the country thinks he is Hitler? Yeah, that makes complete sense.

Posted by SteveS 2017-04-23 01:12|| 2017-04-23 01:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Right. These are the people who decide if your kid should be put on Ritalin.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-04-23 02:58|| 2017-04-23 02:58|| Front Page Top

#6 I blame the past eight years and the reality of Obama. Yes, pardon me whilst I embrace the current delusion.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-04-23 04:35|| 2017-04-23 04:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Projection.

Posted by Hupaitch Glack5068 2017-04-23 05:22|| 2017-04-23 05:22|| Front Page Top

#8 And that diagnosis is based on exactly what?

Posted by JohnQC 2017-04-23 08:10|| 2017-04-23 08:10|| Front Page Top

#9 #8 And that diagnosis is based on exactly what? Fake experts who use pseudo science to push an agenda. They are trying to cloak their dislike for Trump with a phony diagnosis based on something they read in the fake news.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-04-23 08:15|| 2017-04-23 08:15|| Front Page Top

#10 Brain enema on aisle U

Posted by M. Murcek 2017-04-23 08:38|| 2017-04-23 08:38|| Front Page Top

#11 I agree, M. Murcek. Reading those killed a few brain cells I could ill afford to lose, so -- Spam Cop amd Smokey.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-04-23 10:39|| 2017-04-23 10:39|| Front Page Top

#12 Give a dog a bad name so you can hang him. Analogous (in Islamic countries) to accusing someone of blasphemy in order to lynch him.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-04-23 10:43|| 2017-04-23 10:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Are these the same people who brought us the implicit bias tool for measuring racism?

Posted by charger 2017-04-23 11:03|| 2017-04-23 11:03|| Front Page Top

#14 Political psychology has had a bad name since 1964 when several prominent psychiatrists pronounced Barry Goldwater crazy in the New York Times.

Twenty years later he was a moderate compared to Reagan and regained his sanity.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2017-04-23 13:07|| 2017-04-23 13:07|| Front Page Top

#15 Any psychiatrist that makes a diagnosis based on the news should have their license revoked because they are an unserious charlatan.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-04-23 13:53|| 2017-04-23 13:53|| Front Page Top

#16 Any psychiatrist that makes a diagnosis based on the news should have their license revoked because they are an unserious charlatan.

Whereas other psychiatrists are serious charlatans?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-04-23 13:58|| 2017-04-23 13:58|| Front Page Top

#17 They're seriously charlatans.

Posted by charger 2017-04-23 14:15|| 2017-04-23 14:15|| Front Page Top

#18 So says a leftist, and we know leftism is a mental issue and far more dangerous than anything trump has.

Yer a TURD

Posted by newc 2017-04-23 14:44|| 2017-04-23 14:44|| Front Page Top

#19

Savage obtained a PhD in 1978 from the University of California, Berkeley, in nutritional ethnomedicine but somehow I have a little more trust in his diagnosis.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-04-23 15:03|| 2017-04-23 15:03|| Front Page Top

#20 The profession of psychiatry is currently conflicted about the Goldwater Rule, it appears, with some not wanting labelled as unethical that which they so desperately are driven to do:

J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2016 Jun;44(2):226-35.
The Ethics of APA's Goldwater Rule.

Kroll J1, Pouncey C2.
Author information
Abstract
Section 7.3 of the code of ethics of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) cautions psychiatrists against making public statements about public figures whom they have not formally evaluated. The APA's concern is to safeguard the public perception of psychiatry as a scientific and credible profession. The ethic is that diagnostic terminology and theory should not be used for speculative or ad hominem attacks that promote the interests of the individual physician or for political and ideological causes. However, the Goldwater Rule presents conflicting problems. These include the right to speak one's conscience regarding concerns about the psychological stability of high office holders and competing considerations regarding one's role as a private citizen versus that as a professional figure. Furthermore, the APA's proscription on diagnosis without formal interview can be questioned, since third-party payers, expert witnesses in law cases, and historical psychobiographers make diagnoses without conducting formal interviews. Some third-party assessments are reckless, but do not negate legitimate reasons for providing thoughtful education to the public and voicing psychiatric concerns as acts of conscience. We conclude that the Goldwater Rule was an excessive organizational response to what was clearly an inflammatory and embarrassing moment for American psychiatry.

It seems to me that any psychiatrist in any capacity pronouncing on a subject's state of mind without having interviewed him is engaging in malpractice.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-04-23 16:55|| 2017-04-23 16:55|| Front Page Top

#21 The left is the enemy. The Democratic Party is no longer comprised of "fellow Americans". This is the reality we now live in.

Posted by Crusader 2017-04-23 17:44|| 2017-04-23 17:44|| Front Page Top

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