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The American Psychiatric Associations (APA) Principles of Medical Ethics states it is unethical for psychiatrists to give a professional opinion about public figures they have not examined.

Violated here recently:
Yale psychiatry professor 'warns Congress that President Trump's mental health is "unraveling" at a meeting of lawmakers including a Republican senator

The Joy Bahar's, Steyer's, et. al. are belcowning themselves at break neck speed.

Simply beat them mercilessly with the "Goldwater Rule", challenge their qualifications and enjoy the FAIL.

1 posted on 01/06/2018 7:25:14 AM PST by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01

Ethics? What ethics?


2 posted on 01/06/2018 7:42:29 AM PST by GSWarrior
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To: Eddie01

Ethics? What ethics?


3 posted on 01/06/2018 7:43:47 AM PST by GSWarrior
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To: Eddie01

Show me a psychiatrist and I’ll show you someone with more issues than every newsstand in Times Square, Grand Central, JFK, O Hare, LAX, and Heathrow combined. The dirty little secret is that most people who either major in psych or are out in the field are there to try and figure out why they themselves are so screwed up in the head.


4 posted on 01/06/2018 7:49:49 AM PST by Impala64ssa (Islamophobic? NO! IslamABHORic)
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To: Eddie01

Everyone knows that psychiatrists who diagnose President Trump without actually examining him are violent homicidal pedophile serial killers.


5 posted on 01/06/2018 7:58:21 AM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: Eddie01
the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) Principles of Medical Ethics[1] that states it is unethical for psychiatrists to give a professional opinion about public figures they have not examined[further explanation needed] in person, and from whom they have not obtained consent to discuss their mental health in public statements

Well, being that I am not a psychiatrist, I can say in my unprofessional opinion that Barry Obama suffers from Narcissistic personality disorder and never should have been a Senator let alone the President of the United States.

And that is perfectly within the bounds of medical ethics.

7 posted on 01/06/2018 8:04:24 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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8 posted on 01/06/2018 8:10:58 AM PST by doug from upland (Why the hell isn't Hillary Rodham Clinton in prison yet?)
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To: Eddie01

Poor Barry.

What’s old is new again.

Trump aint havin any

Perot flinched too


9 posted on 01/06/2018 9:02:00 AM PST by mylife ( The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Eddie01

Psychiatry is, at best, a pseudoscience.

“Diagnoses” are based on subjective impressions of symptoms reported/exhibited by “patients.”

In the early 70’s, David Rosenhan and his associates demonstrated how easy it was for a completely normal individual to be evaluated as schizophrenic and admitted to a mental hospital.

That anyone attaches any credibility to psychiatry after that is a wonder.


17 posted on 01/06/2018 11:39:58 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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