Let’s keep this FReepathon moving and wrap it up, Folks!
Posted on 12/02/2019 4:39:44 PM PST by jazusamo
Full title: Psychiatrists Organize Campaign to Declare Trump 'Dangerous' as Part of Impeachment Congressional Record
Psychiatrists with the World Mental Health Coalition are soliciting signatures in a campaign to support the impeachment of President Donald Trump predicated on claims that he is mentally unstable. This campaign arguably violates the ethics of psychiatry, mimicking a historic attack on another Republican presidential candidate who successfully sued for libel after psychiatrists declared him unfit for the presidency.
In an email forwarded to PJ Media, three psychiatrists with the coalition ask other psychiatrists to sign on to a petition to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee to include a statement on Trump's supposed mental instability into the official record of the impeachment inquiry.
Dr. Bandy Lee, a forensic psychiatrist at Yale School of Medicine; Dr. Jerrold Post, a psychiatrist and political psychologist who founded the CIA's Center for Analysis of Personality and Political Behavior; and Dr. John Zinner, a clinical professor in the Psychiatry Department of the George Washington University School of Medicine, wrote the petition and statement condemning Trump.
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In 1964, Fact magazine published an article claiming that 1,189 psychiatrists had diagnosed Republican presidential nominee Barry Goldwater as "psychologically unfit to be president." The magazine had surveyed psychiatrists, and 49 percent of respondents described Goldwater as unfit, calling him "unbalanced," "immature," "paranoid," "psychotic," and "schizophrenic." A Johns Hopkins professor said the Republican's public statements should "disqualify him from the presidency." Sound familiar?
Goldwater sued for libel and won — a rare legal feat in America's pro-free speech justice system. A Federal District Court awarded him $1 in compensatory damages and $75,000 in punitive damages. The decision was upheld on appeal, and the Supreme Court declined to hear the case.
These psychiatrists should stop politicizing their field, especially given this history.
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unethical quacks are the most dangerous people of all (outside of Muslim terrorists, of course)
Charging you a hundred an hour to wonder why you said what you said and did you hate your mother.
JMHo
Do they have an opinion on Gropin’ Joe, Crazy Bernie or Fauxcahontas?
“Do they have an opinion on Gropin’ Joe, Crazy Bernie or Fauxcahontas?”
Yes. It’s “you’re a racist.”
L
I noticed our “old friend” Bandy Lee. Why am I not surprised?
Not anything particularly aimed at DJT since he doesn’t drink, but Willie Nelson said “ there’s more old drunks than there are old doctors”. Or as I like to say “ there’s only to sane people in the world and Harold I’m starting to wonder about you”. :)
Nothing was more dangerous than allowing an ineligible usurper who hated the country and it citizens and particularly its Constitution that says he can’t be President into the White House.
They are crazier than their patients
I’d be the farm that DJT’s children are better adjusted than these Humpty-Dumpties’ kids.
Shrinks’ kids are often a disaster.
Let’s keep this FReepathon moving and wrap it up, Folks!
The same fagg*ts who promote same sex relations as normal.
Down is up and wrong is right.
Kate Millett, founder of NOW, was certifiably crazy and institutionalized several times against her will.
In an email forwarded to PJ Media, three psychiatrists with the coalition ask other psychiatrists to sign on to a petition to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee to include a statement on Trump's supposed mental instability into the official record of the impeachment inquiry.
They need to be fired, their licenses suspended, blackballed, then prosecuted under anything that can be dreamed up -- IOW, tried under the same standards used by the rest of their political party. Thanks jazusamo.
I had to see a shrink once. He said I was masochistic. On the third evening session, while I was pouring my troubles out, the man actually fell asleep. “Doc, paying you $95 an hour for your nap time is masochistic. Thank you. I’m cured. Goodbye.”
First Barry Goldwater, then homosexuality — and now this! It makes me wonder how much of their judgement can be trusted,
My Dad used to work in Topeka, Kansas, home of the world famous Menninger Institute. The standing joke was that whenever old man Menninger came around, the staff was sent to run off all the squirrels lest they attempt to gather him.
I voted for Barry Goldwater and still remember the Dem campaign video of the little girl and the mushroom cloud.
They RATs were merciless.
Bandy Lee seems to have a neurotic obsession with Pres. Trump. This isn’t the first time she’s been in the news for this sort of thing.
Any psychiatrist who makes a diagnosis based on what they see or read in the media ought to have their license revoked.
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