Posted on 07/25/2017 11:23:08 AM PDT by DFG
A leading psychiatry group has told its members they should not feel bound by a longstanding rule against commenting publicly on the mental state of public figures — even the president.
The statement, an email this month from the executive committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association to its 3,500 members, represents the first significant crack in the profession’s decades-old united front aimed at preventing experts from discussing the psychiatric aspects of politicians’ behavior. It will likely make many of its members feel more comfortable speaking openly about President Trump’s mental health.
The impetus for the email was “belief in the value of psychoanalytic knowledge in explaining human behavior,” said psychoanalytic association past president Dr. Prudence Gourguechon, a psychiatrist in Chicago. “We don’t want to prohibit our members from using their knowledge responsibly.”
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(sigh)....CW II is just around the bend, apparently.
Laughable
Hey, how bout analyzing pathological lists and power mad traitors who sell their country out . . . Like Obamas and Clintons?
Wow, so many professionals willing to throw away their reputation - and for what? Pure hatred of President Trump. It doesn’t seem worth it to me.
Okay, when the next (D) president comes along it’ll be cool, yes?.......................
Okay, when the next (D) president comes along it’ll be cool, yes?.......................
Two words: Slander. Libel.
Is this the same leading psychiatric group that, in the 1970’s, amended their manual to remove homosexuality from the list of mental defects?
Let it be quick and merciless.
“Wow, so many professionals willing to throw away their reputation - and for what? Pure hatred of President Trump. It doesn’t seem worth it to me.”
Big Media will protect and esteem them.
The profession has been discrediting itself for decades. They are finally absolute dirt.
Buncha Psychotics, they are.
Are you conservative?
Are you of western European ancestry?
Are you Christian?
Are you heterosexual?
If you answer any of these questions “Yes”, it’s the whole damned world vs. you.
Embrace it.
Unethical LIB Loons. I laugh at their professional wretchedness.
Great, and we can comment on the “mental ill health” of all the crazed Leftards running around in public life!
Steve Kroft once asked Baracchio in a 60 Minutes interview,
‘Are you punch-drunk?’
Psychiatry is pseudo-science.
Okay, when the next (D) president comes along it’ll be cool, yes?.......................
Oh but that’s different.
Bottom line: The human brain is 90% phospholipids. Yet no one understands how those fats up there churn around to make possible the distinctive human higher intellectual functions that dictate behavior. The American Psychiatric Association are merely observers and dabble in various chemicals some of which do alter human thought. They have always been a bit pompous and have had no reluctance to advance a leftist agenda.
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