Sure, but it's worth no more than the opinion of anybody else -- maybe worth a lot less.
The "Goldwater Rule" was a good one -- not just for mental health professionals, but for everybody.
When conservatives objected to psychoanalysts labeling Goldwater crazy, they were right.
When everybody started throwing around diagnoses of people they'd never met, they were wrong.
I agree.
Everybody want to get in front of the camera and have the public saying “Hey, he’s right. That guy is nuts.”
And the press is on the phone to any doc in the phone book saying; come get your 15 minutes of fame all you have to do is say the president is a loon and spout some psycho jargon to support your opinion. Oh, and make it convincing.
Eventually the press finds someone that will do it and the professional associations smile and look the other way. Hey, that guy pays his association dues regularly every January.
Professional ethics are only as good as the community that enforces them.
We have no borders because we don’t enforce them. Same thing.