Why it's demoted to a sideline hobby: Talk of Trump's mental health (VIDEO)

[C C]

https://www.newsy.com/stories/talk-of-tr...roversial/

EXCERPT: . . . Psychology experts have previously speculated on Trump's mental health, even before Wolff's book and Trump's tweets. But some of that speculation could actually be considered unethical.

That's because of the "Goldwater Rule," which bars members of the American Psychiatric Association from diagnosing public figures they have not personally evaluated. The rule is named after former presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, who, in a survey, was deemed psychologically unfit to be president by psychiatrists who hadn't actually examined him.

The APA says "breaking the Goldwater Rule is irresponsible, potentially stigmatizing, and definitely unethical."

The Goldwater Rule doesn't stop other people from speculating, and beyond speculation about the current president, research has shown that many former presidents may have had mental illnesses.

After reviewing the biological sources for the first 37 presidents, researchers determined that half of them may have lived with some form of mental illness — including depression, anxiety, social phobia or bipolar disorder. Abraham Lincoln is a notable example....

MORE (video): https://www.newsy.com/stories/talk-of-tr...roversial/

[Syne]

Who ever said leftists were ethical?

[Magical Realist]

Trump is both mentally unstable and an immature asshole. I don't know of a mental disorder that makes people immature assholes. Perhaps a weird mix of narcissism and delusional thinking and pathological lying. Perhaps that kind of frontal lobe dementia that makes people mean all the time. But I doubt there is any cure for it. Oh well. 3 more years of this shit experiment Republicans foisted on America, and then back to a sane and competent candidate.

[Yazata]

Psychology experts have previously speculated on Trump's mental health, even before Wolff's book and Trump's tweets. But some of that speculation could actually be considered unethical.

That's because of the "Goldwater Rule," which bars members of the American Psychiatric Association from diagnosing public figures they have not personally evaluated. The rule is named after former presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, who, in a survey, was deemed psychologically unfit to be president by psychiatrists who hadn't actually examined him.

The APA says "breaking the Goldwater Rule is irresponsible, potentially stigmatizing, and definitely unethical."

I fully agree.

I personally think that the reaction to Trump's election (the emotional anxiety and hysteria, the 'Russia' conspiracy theories, the riots and thuggish brownshirt-style 'antifa' violence, the ceaseless over-the-top rhetoric from supposed media and academic 'authorities') illustrates and displays far more psychiatric instability than anything that Trump has ever said or did.

[Syne]

I fully agree.

I personally think that the reaction to Trump's election (the emotional anxiety and hysteria, the 'Russia' conspiracy theories, the riots and thuggish brownshirt-style 'antifa' violence, the ceaseless over-the-top rhetoric from supposed media and academic 'authorities') illustrates and displays far more psychiatric instability than anything that Trump has ever said or did.

Hear, hear. Absolutely.

Narcissism, politicians lying, and claiming "Republicans are meanies" are, and have been for decades, so common place as to be completely trivial. So it's only the hysterical reaction that has significantly changed. All those zealous believers in the inevitability of a new Democrat hegemony.

[RainbowUnicorn]

https://www.newsy.com/stories/talk-of-tr...roversial/

EXCERPT: . . . Psychology experts have previously speculated on Trump's mental health, even before Wolff's book and Trump's tweets. But some of that speculation could actually be considered unethical.

That's because of the "Goldwater Rule," which bars members of the American Psychiatric Association from diagnosing public figures they have not personally evaluated. The rule is named after former presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, who, in a survey, was deemed psychologically unfit to be president by psychiatrists who hadn't actually examined him.

The APA says "breaking the Goldwater Rule is irresponsible, potentially stigmatizing, and definitely unethical."

The Goldwater Rule doesn't stop other people from speculating, and beyond speculation about the current president, research has shown that many former presidents may have had mental illnesses.

After reviewing the biological sources for the first 37 presidents, researchers determined that half of them may have lived with some form of mental illness — including depression, anxiety, social phobia or bipolar disorder. Abraham Lincoln is a notable example....

MORE (video): https://www.newsy.com/stories/talk-of-tr...roversial/

But some of that speculation could actually be considered unethical.

could actually be considered

unethical

breaking the Goldwater Rule

you could also say that denial of releasing tax documents like all previous Presidents have done "could" also be "considered" to be "unethical"

it seemed that those who decided to elect the current president wanted someone who shot from the hip(cowboy style).
Thats what they chose, thats what they got.
concepts of potentiated fluff pieces that create social media comentary as a spectators opinon of others opinion seems a little odd.
Surely a more considered ethics debate would need to be had first to attempt to establish what if any ethical rules were considered to be ligitimate(it seems like a philisophical debate of american culture)

[Syne]

There's nothing inherently unethical about refusing to violate your own personal privacy, which includes your income taxes. All previous Presidential disclosures where wholly voluntary.

[Magical Realist]

“It is a stigmatizing insult to the mentally ill (who are mostly well behaved and well meaning) to be lumped with Mr. Trump (who is neither).”---Dr. Allen Francis, professor emeritus of psychiatry at Duke University Medical College,

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-ne...nt-n721766

[Syne]

Psychiatrists diagnosing the President smacked down by the APA