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Is Donald Trump Mentally Ill? 3 Professors of Psychiatry Ask President Obama to conduct “a full medical and neuropsychiatric evaluation”
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500November 29, 2016
Dear President Obama,
We are writing to express our grave concern regarding the mental stability of our President-Elect. Professional standards do not permit us to venture a diagnosis for a public figure whom we have not evaluated personally. Nevertheless, his widely reported symptoms of mental instability — including grandiosity, impulsivity, hypersensitivity to slights or criticism, and an apparent inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality — lead us to question his fitness for the immense responsibilities of the office. We strongly recommend that, in preparation for assuming these responsibilities, he receive a full medical and neuropsychiatric evaluation by an impartial team of investigators.
Sincerely,
Judith Herman, M.D.
Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical SchoolNanette Gartrell, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco (1988-2011)
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School (1983-87)Dee Mosbacher, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Community Health Systems
University of California, San Francisco (2005-2013)The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM - 5, Cluster B) for “Narcissistic Personality Disorder” by The American Psychiatric Association (APA)
- Assistant professors and the fucking DSM?! This has lame and butt hurt written all over it. Sorry.monospaced
- Even a psych professor must be smart enough to know Obama can't actually mandate an impartial exam on Trump. The idea is incredibly naive.monospaced
- Investigators? I don't believe that's what doctors refer to themselves as. This just reeks of being completely fake.monospaced
- Well, it is on HufPo so who's to say but I support the sentiment regardless...whatthefunk
- I guess the idea is just to have it out there, same as a "birthers" distraction.zaq
- OMG!utopian
- I guess. It just seems like such a weak ass, cliche, unprofessional naive request to have actually made it to the public.monospaced
- You're applying sound logic to an illogical subject and we've learned that approach seldom resonates anymore...whatthefunk
- @zaq = exactly, why the hell not. Fight fire with fire...whatthefunk
- Well I don't consider referencing the dsm on NPD as sound logic either. Have you read that checklist?monospaced
- Yes, that checklist also applies to most creative directors I've worked with ;)whatthefunk
- Exactly.monospaced
- Still, doesn't render it untrue at all...whatthefunk
- Likewise, this letter doesn't make it true either.monospaced
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