Every psychology and psychiatry student/resident should be required to learn how nations like the USSR used the mental health system to lock up political dissidents.
Either drum them out of the profession or share their lack of credibility!
This statement is nothing but gas.
Hahaha. These unethical, unprofessional , integrity-free losers need to stick their worthless opinions where the sun doesn’t shine. Fools.
These guys didn’t care about Obama floating around like he was maxed out on Xanax?
Big deal. Next piece of spaghetti will be thrown at the wall.
Apology? Only racists and homophobes apologize? If we were to apologize it would only prove DJT is a skunk. Are we sorry we broke the rules of our profession? The ends justify the means and the moves.
The dirty little secret that they are jealously guarding, is that psychiatry isn’t much more than a pseudo-science. The hard sciences and medical world know that to be true.
Bkmk
The enforcement is not in the APA, it is in the court system as Goldwater sued for Libel and won.
Goldwater v. Ginzburg
Court rulings
The court found that the evidence introduced at trial proved the defendants knew they were publishing defamatory statements and “were motivated by actual malice when they published the statements.”
The court found the defendants guilty of libel action based on the article Fact published. The plaintiff demanded $1,000,000 in compensatory and punitive damages but Senator Goldwater was awarded $1 in compensatory damages and $75,000 in punitive damages.
The compensatory damages were against all defendants but the punitive damages were split between the defendants. Ginzburg and Boroson were liable for $25,000 of the $75,000 and Fact Magazine, Inc. was liable for $50,000. The United States Court of Appeals affirmed the award and the Supreme Court denied a petition for certiorari (review).
For those who are unaware, psychiatrists are medical doctors. They prescribe drugs. Psychologists help to evaluate and provide mental therapy.
I’m not a licensed professional either but my diagnosis is, she’s an idiot.
We psychologically evaluate police, federal agents and certain military to ensure they are “fit for duty”. They have the power to impact many lives and we realized it’s best to make sure in advance that they aren’t crazy. Before an incident happens in the field.
So, why is the same thing not done for all politicians prior to getting on the ballot? These people have the power to change laws that affect millions, start wars and launch nukes.
I’m not saying President Trump has to go. I just think this should be part of a medical screening for anyone wanting to be President.
If you’re not very familiar with the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution, you might want to review this bit from Section 4 — it’ll become very relevant during this week’s Madam Secretary:
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
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The Madam Secretary episode, titled “Sound and Fury,” was pitched in October and filmed in November — long before Michael Wolff’s recently published book Fire and Fury kicked up discussion that President Donald Trump might be suffering mental difficulties, something Trump has vehemently denied in a tweet. The CBS series’ prescience when it comes to anticipating national and international incidents has become something of an inside joke among its cast and crew; star Tim Daly once joked to TVLine that “Sometimes people will say to me we’re ripped from the headlines, which is actually not true. The headlines are ripped from our show.”
“I stand in awe, repeatedly, as to how brilliantly they anticipated the human condition,” Carradine says, pointing out that the series is “aspirational” and therefore unconnected to anything actually taking place at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. “So here we have a chance to show, yet again on our little show, how a situation might be dealt with if there was a question about the health of our Commander in Chief.”
IIRC, the Dems have been pitching 25th Amendment scenarios since mid-2017, if not before.
So Hollywood, don't urinate on my back and tell me that it's raining.
Yet they said nothing about Pelosi? She probably is operating at less than 10% mental capacity. And what about John McShame? The guy has a brain tumor and nobody is questioning his cognitive function?
I’m still betting that if somebody dug deep enough they would find this “Bandy X Lee” is on the payroll of Chinese or North Korean intelligence as an Agitprop agent, paid to spread dissent in the US.
They approach the human mind, heart, and soul without any Biblical reference to the reality of our condition. They make up "syndromes" at the drop of a hat, and treat every "condition" with a cocktail of drugs that often leave their patients in a worse condition than when they started "treatment."
They discount the influence and actions of demons. Not every human being is a victim of demonic possession or oppression, but many are - and the APA would never, ever acknowledge this Biblical truth.
Psychiatrists and psychologists might as well wave chicken bones at their patients - it would probably have the same effect as their current "treatments."
I don't discount the healing value of talking about problems and facing them. Heck, Alcoholics Anonymous does that and has a pretty good track records helping those who commit to it.
But most of what these charlatans in the "mental health industry" practice is fraud, smoke, and mirrors - to the tune of Billions of dollars per year.
IOW - you fake freelance Voodoo artists is making the rest of us Voodoo artists look like charlatans....