{"id":103087,"date":"2016-08-07T07:48:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T15:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=103087"},"modified":"2016-08-07T09:30:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T17:30:32","slug":"the-american-psychiatric-association-issues-a-warning-no-psychoanalyzing-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=103087","title":{"rendered":"The American Psychiatric Association issues a warning: No psychoanalyzing Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate it when people use psychology as a weapon. I had an ex-GF who did that and I did not appreciate her diagnoses.<\/p>\n<p>Have I done to others this thing I hate? Yes. <\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OqbDBRWb63s\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/08\/07\/the-american-psychiatric-association-reminds-its-doctors-no-psychoanalyzing-donald-trump\/?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-politics%3Ahomepage%2Fcard\">Washington Post<\/a>: Donald Trump had a very bad week \u2014 so bad that some were asking whether something was wrong with him. Like, really wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re asking ourselves \u2014 I didn\u2019t say this, but this is what everybody is saying: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/08\/03\/the-latest-media-obsession-could-there-be-something-neurologically-wrong-with-donald-trump\/\">Is Donald Trump a sociopath<\/a>?&#8221; MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was this from former Harvard Medical School dean Jeffrey Flier:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Narcissistic personality disorder. Trump doesn&#8217;t just have it, he defines it. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/trumpdiagnosis?src=hash\">#trumpdiagnosis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2WegZrrlJ7\">https:\/\/t.co\/2WegZrrlJ7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeffrey Flier (@jflier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jflier\/status\/759466280504193026\">July 30, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And a Northwestern University professor recently published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2016\/06\/the-mind-of-donald-trump\/480771\/\">9,000-word psychological evaluation of Trump<\/a> \u2014 from afar, of course \u2014 largely dealing with Trump and narcissism.<\/p>\n<p>He isn&#8217;t the only public figure who&#8217;s been subjected to some remote analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Witness this report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/archive\/article\/0,,20179866,00.html\">from People magazine<\/a> in 2008 about Britney Spears (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"citation\">\n<p>During her 14-day hold, her doctor can discharge her to outpatient treatment if she is deemed well enough or apply to keep her longer \u2014 a move UCLA psychiatrist Dr. Carole Lieberman (<strong>who is not treating Spears<\/strong>) would advise.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Or this, <a href=\"http:\/\/radaronline.com\/exclusives\/2010\/04\/exclusive-interview-dr-drew-says-lindsay-lohan-should-be-arrested-then-sent-rehab\/\">from Radar Online<\/a>, about Lindsay Lohan:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"citation\">\n<p>While Lindsay Lohan continues to party until the wee hours of the morning, and her family and friends grow increasingly concerned for her, Dr. Drew Pinsky, <strong>who is not treating Lohan<\/strong>, has some candid advice for the people closest to her.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Or this, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalenquirer.com\/celebrity\/lisa-marie-deadly-drug-warning\/\">from the National Enquirer<\/a>, about Lisa Marie Presley:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"citation\">\n<p>Dr. Judy Kuriansky, a leading New York psychologist <strong>who has not treated<\/strong> Lisa Marie, said: \u201cThis is an absolutely danger\u00adous and potentially deadly situation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The reason each of those bolded disclosures were made: They have to be. And that&#8217;s because of yet another presidential candidate, half a century ago. Back in 1964, a whole bunch of psychiatrists decided they would like to psychoanalyze Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. The result was what&#8217;s known as the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychiatry.org\/news-room\/apa-blogs\/apa-blog\/2016\/08\/the-goldwater-rule\">Goldwater Rule<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s not technically what the rule is all about. In fact, it states:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"citation\">\n<p>On occasion psychiatrists are asked for an opinion about an individual who is in the light of public attention or who has disclosed information about himself\/herself through public media. In such circumstances, a psychiatrist may share with the public his or her expertise about psychiatric issues in general. However, it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The short version: It&#8217;s okay to talk about psychiatric issues \u2014 but not okay to diagnose people you haven&#8217;t treated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate it when people use psychology as a weapon. I had an ex-GF who did that and I did not appreciate her diagnoses. Have I done to others this thing I hate? Yes. Washington Post: Donald Trump had a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=103087\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17382],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103087"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103114,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103087\/revisions\/103114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}