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A Lonely Pro-Trump Psychiatrist Speaks
American Thinker ^ | September 2, 2016 | Peter A Olsson MD

Posted on 09/02/2016 6:13:00 PM PDT by Kaslin

As a lonely psychoanalyst Trump supporter, I feel the need to exercise my First Amendment right to speak up. I think the majority of my psychiatrist, psychologist, and psychiatric social worker colleagues feel dislike, distain and antipathy towards Donald Trump. Many psychologists state that he is mentally ill and could damage mental health in America. I disagree with these colleagues.

American voters usually are exposed to a variety of clever political demagoguery, obfuscations, deceptions, and a spectrum of lies from little white ones to whoppers. With Donald Trump’s bombastic campaign style, a new glossary of terms is needed to understand his evolving policies and predict his way of leading and governing if elected. The new glossary would include words and concepts such as bombast, sarcasm (cruel at times), overt insults, crude personal verbal attack, hyperbolic impulsive statements to focus large group attention, paradoxical intention, mixed simultaneous use of an object as symbol and reality (i.e., a wall as the need for clear national boundaries and rules of behavior as compared to an actual wall). And, extemporaneous free associations about the powerful emotions beneath political issues, ambivalent political relationships and evolving policy statements.

The author imagines the following inner soliloquy of Donald Trump as he decided to run for president:

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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1 posted on 09/02/2016 6:13:00 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
Many psychologists state that he is mentally ill...

Based on what?

2 posted on 09/02/2016 6:14:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Kaslin

Psychiatry is not much of a science.


3 posted on 09/02/2016 6:17:54 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: BenLurkin

Based on their Progressive leanings.


4 posted on 09/02/2016 6:19:48 PM PDT by Catsrus (Don't let Hillary, the crook, off the hook.)
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To: Kaslin

Some of the craziest people are psychologists and psychiatrists.


5 posted on 09/02/2016 6:19:53 PM PDT by ZinGirl (kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
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To: ZinGirl

the country should deport all the lawyers and psychologists and psychiatrists


6 posted on 09/02/2016 6:29:18 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Red Steel

‘Psychology’ was considered an ‘inexact science’ and ‘theoretical ‘ when I took it years ago. I was a music major, but switched to ‘criminal psychology’.


7 posted on 09/02/2016 6:33:12 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (<<<<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
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To: ZinGirl
Some of the craziest people are psychologists and psychiatrists.
8 posted on 09/02/2016 6:34:46 PM PDT by IWontSubmit
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To: ZinGirl

Yep. Have to agree.


9 posted on 09/02/2016 6:36:42 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (<<<<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
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To: ZinGirl
Some of the craziest people are psychologists and psychiatrists.

ALL.

10 posted on 09/02/2016 6:37:02 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Hojczyk

Or at least *most* of them. Seriously, some are complete whackjobs. The eye-rolling part is that they give “advice” to people who are oftentimes either vulnerable or only half whack-jobs trying to improve themself.


11 posted on 09/02/2016 6:38:24 PM PDT by ZinGirl (kids in college....can't afford a tagline right now)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

That’s nice to know.

I could go through each one of these whines above giving plausible and logical explanation for each one. It appears Trump understands human psychology better than these leftists.


12 posted on 09/02/2016 6:39:03 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: BenLurkin
They used to say that Gays and Cross Dressers (Transgenders) were Mentally Ill.

What happened to those beliefs in the Psychoanalytical world?

13 posted on 09/02/2016 6:39:29 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary Clinton has killed FIVE* more People than Three Mile Island. *revised...)
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To: Red Steel
Thomas Szasz 😀👍
14 posted on 09/02/2016 6:42:03 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Can't WAIT to start saying -"TRUMP'S FAULT!!")
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To: Kaslin

I say that the the majority of psychiatrists, psychologists, and psychiatric social workers are the ones who are mentally ill.


15 posted on 09/02/2016 6:42:24 PM PDT by Joe Brower (The "American People" are no longer capable of self-governance.)
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To: ZinGirl

Some of the craziest people are psychologists and psychiatrists.


That’s the truth!


16 posted on 09/02/2016 6:56:30 PM PDT by Flick Lives (TRIGGER WARNING - Posts may require application of sarcasm filter)
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To: Hojczyk
Yeah but what do we tell than the idiots to see if all the psychologists and psychiatrists are deported? I do agree with the lawyers though

On the other hand you missed the author is a psychiatrist and a Trump supporter

17 posted on 09/02/2016 7:25:00 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: IWontSubmit

LOL. Love that cartoon.


18 posted on 09/02/2016 7:30:27 PM PDT by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: Kaslin

I’ve warned my kids to STAY CLEAR of that system. Just saying that one or twice a month (in a work health survey) that you don’t feel like getting up in the morning will get you an endless stream of people trying to ‘help’ you (which is really slang for trying to get inside your mind to see if you’ll be the next workplace shooter) - not to mention that all records will be in the Obamacare database.

So screw them and tell everyone that you love nothing more than getting up at 6 AM every morning for work and all else is great in your life.


19 posted on 09/02/2016 7:31:33 PM PDT by BobL (If Hillary wins, there WILL NOT be another contested election, for decades - AMNESTY)
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To: ZinGirl

You bet they are. They go into the field hoping to cure themselves.
It doesn’t work.


20 posted on 09/02/2016 7:33:23 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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