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American Psychoanalytic Association Frees Members from 'Goldwater Rule'

posted by martyb on Thursday July 27 2017, @07:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the call-a-spade-a-spade dept.

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Common Dreams reports

As President Donald Trump continues to behave bizarrely and erratically--attacking his own attorney general, launching into a political tirade during a speech to Boy Scouts, bringing his 11-year-old son into the burgeoning Russia controversy--a professional association of psychoanalysts is telling its members to drop the so-called Goldwater Rule and comment publicly on the president's state of mind if they find reason to do so.

The Goldwater Rule was formally included in the American Psychiatric Association's "Principles of Medical Ethics" following the 1964 presidential campaign, during which a magazine editor was sued for running an article in which mental health professionals gave their opinions on [Republican] presidential candidate Barry Goldwater's psychiatric state. The rule deems public comments by psychiatrists on the mental health of public officials without consent "unethical".

In a recent email to its 3,500 members, the American Psychoanalytic Association "told its members they should not feel bound by" the Goldwater Rule, which some have characterized as a "gag rule", STAT's Sharon Begley reports.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @07:37AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @07:37AM (#545037)

    Psychiatrists don't diagnose the mental state of actors on stage. It's all an act.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @07:44AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @07:44AM (#545047)

    Damn right, aristarchus is fucking delusional [soylentnews.org] but you don't see the niggers-in-charge calling the crazy wagon to take him away.

    • (Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @01:58PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @01:58PM (#545171)

      Are you sure that Aristarchus is delusional, or is Aristarchus the delusion? Or, alternatively, Aristarchus is just a douche.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @03:06PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @03:06PM (#545201)

        It's alternately, not alternatively, unless your additional option necessarily includes a musical selection.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @07:47AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @07:47AM (#545049)

    Trump must be one dedicated method actor to be twitting such madness sunrise till dusk.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @07:54AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @07:54AM (#545054)

      When I method act I like to play the parts of three people so I can have a threesome instead of masturbating alone.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @08:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @08:01AM (#545059)

    It's called "method acting". The insanity is real.

  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @09:08AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @09:08AM (#545082)

    I doubt it's an act. It's a rational response to having your facade as a business genius exposed as a laundering operation for Russian crime syndicates for the past 3 decades.

    https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate [newrepublic.com]

    It’s entirely possible that Trump was never more than a convenient patsy for Russian oligarchs and mobsters, with his casinos and condos providing easy pass-throughs for their illicit riches. At the very least, with his constant need for new infusions of cash and his well-documented troubles with creditors, Trump made an easy “mark” for anyone looking to launder money. But whatever his knowledge about the source of his wealth, the public record makes clear that Trump built his business empire in no small part with a lot of dirty money from a lot of dirty Russians—including the dirtiest and most feared of them all.