[neocon1984]

Despite the self-imposed ethic rules that forbids psychiatrists from offering professional opinion regarding public figures they have not personally analyzed, a group of mental health experts - including psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers - have gotten together to sign the letter, which intended to warn about the viability of Trump as a president because of his apparent mental health problems. The experts also called for a full medical and neuropsychiatric evaluation by impartial investigators.

Dr. Joyce Brothers was kicked out of the APA for this type of unethical behavior. I guess rules don't matter when dealing with Trump.

[WMarshal]

Maybe President Trump should use Alinsky's tactics on these mental health “professionals” and make them live up to their own “standards and rules”. He should file complaints with the medical ethics ethics board in the respective states and jurisdictions of these provocateurs. Lawfare can go both ways.

[ransomnote]

She wasn’t actually kicked out by the APA. THey had a riff but they never kicked her out and she later spoke at an APA conference. But the issue at the time was “the patient speaks and the psychologist listens” and so the APA conflicted with her public appearances where she would talk to a silent audience.
Using one’s credentials as a psychologist to attack a sitting president is clearly loathsome and no comparison to what Brothers was accused of doing.
The press used to say Bush was insane and an idiot and I remember laughing through a funny rebuttal basically asking the press, “so you are being beaten by an insane, incompetent idiot? How does that make you look?”