INDECISION 2020.201
THE DUTY TO WARN
when is a President “crazy as a loon”?
If you have observed these behaviors in another President, I have not…
...aimless, paranoid-like ramblings in non-answer ‘answers’ to ‘softball’ questions using “adolescent vocabulary”…
...even supporters who profit from him reported ‘off the record’ as calling him “crazy” and “out of control”…
...some, admitted to not being professionally qualified to make any diagnosis, have questioned if he’s showing early signs of Altimeters, as did Reagan...
...many who have known him for years have said he is a habitual, perhaps pathological, liar; two of these people made significant profits by assuming we’d be lied to about corona virus…
...publicly deny he "ever" said a thing which I and everyone in that room heard him say 15 minutes prior; followed by an attack on the reporter for asking the question...
...is he simply showing – as am I – signs of aging? And, yes, the same might be asked of Joe Biden...
...or, is it that after a lifetime of a saying what he thought would work in that moment, does he simply not comprehend the concept of videotape?
My personal, definitely not professional, observations lead to asking reasonable questions of those who are actually equipped to give answer.
Over the past four years many psychiatric professionals have had to balance their Duty to Warn with the Goldwater Rule [see notes at end]. Dr. Daniel Gilbert (quoted below) pointed out that because of vast amounts of video and printed information, more is known about Trump’s physic than patients seen only in clinic.
Below are some of those who’ve risked reputation and position because of dangers found in publicly available information about Trump. It has even been suggested by one expert there is sufficient accumulated evidence to justify involuntary psychiatric exam.
This writer is not a psychiatrist nor psychologist, don’t even “play one on TV”. I am just one who, too, feels a duty to warn. Whether or not the reader considers, ignores, or denies what follows, you have been warned.
Practicing professionals who have given public interviews or written to warn America:
Dr. Lance Dodes, a Training and Supervising Analyst Emeritus with the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He has stated "Trump is a psychopath who will destroy democracy" and "[he] cares nothing about anyone else's life."
Dr. Daniel Gilbert, renowned Harvard psychologist. After Trump claimed he had ‘great and unmatched wisdom’ Dr. Gilbert called out not just Trump for what was said, but the entire country for ignoring Trump’s very obvious mental decline: “[His] brain is coming apart at the seams, and something must be done about this.”
Dr. John Gartner, psychologist, psychotherapist, author, and former assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University Medical School stated: “[Trump] is just sane enough, as it were, to pass as sane; but is actually detached from reality. So that what is ‘real’ is fluid; totally ‘malleable’ according to his personality.”
World Mental Health Coalition demanded resignation or removal of Donald Trump over his "severe mental troubles" as evidenced by his mis-handling of the corona virus pandemic.
For one of the most definitive, objective, and judicial videos on the subject by a qualified professional of both Trump and Biden see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifUErTNJDOQ&t=612s
Best-Selling Books published in interest of a ‘duty to warn’ America:
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Asstes President Donald Trump's Behavior (Thomas Dunne Books, 2017) [Reprinted 2018 with 10 additional contributors]
Created, compiled, and edited by Bandy Lee, M.D., M.Div., Yale psychiatrist, expert on violence, and forensic psychiatrist. Contains essays from twenty-seven psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals describing the "clear and present danger"Donald Trump's mental health poses to the "nation and individual well being".
Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of a President (Avery Publishing, 2018).
By Justin A. Frank, M.D., author of “Bush on the Couch” and “Obama on the Couch”. A former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and a physician with more than forty years of experience in psychoanalysis.
“No president in the history of the United States has inspired more alarm and confusion than Donald Trump. As questions and concerns about his decisions, behavior, and qualifications for office have multiplied, they point to one primary question: Does he pose a genuine threat to our country?”
Too Much & Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man (Simon & Schuster, 2020).
By Mary Trump, PhD, licensed Clinical Psychologist and President Trump's niece.
She states that "it would be the end of American Democracy" if her uncle were to be re-elected in November 2020. (AP) Also, see my blog of July 12, 2020 @ https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/7931195089641925137/483749019056136810
Notes:
“Duty to Warn” refers to the responsibility of a counselor or therapist to inform third parties or authorities if a client poses a threat to themselves or another identifiable individual. It is one of just a few instances where a therapist can breach client confidentiality. Normally, ethical guidelines require that therapists keep information revealed during therapy strictly private.
“The Goldwater Rule” is in the American Psychiatric Association's Principles of Medical Ethics, which states that it is unethical for psychiatrists to give a professional opinion about public figures whom they have not examined in person, and from whom they have not obtained consent to discuss their mental health in public statements.
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