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

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, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @03:56PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @03:56PM (#545232)

    You just see conspiracy everywhere, and magically it lines up with your political ideologies. I think those psychs you hate have a good term for it: delusional.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @05:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 27 2017, @05:07PM (#545274)

    No, there are fields of psychology that study why the delusions of psychology researchers and the clinicians they inform seem so difficult to stamp out. These delusions are not actually controversial. They are provably incorrect using well accepted mathematical and logical rules: http://library.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/ft/gg/GG_Mindless_2004.pdf [mpib-berlin.mpg.de]

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Thursday July 27 2017, @10:47PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 27 2017, @10:47PM (#545498)

    One conspiracy is "people like money" and the other conspiracy is someone faked the entire history of the soviet system of using mental illness as a shaming or punishment system for obviously political purposes and people of the same political persuasion have taken over the field in here, also. My money's on "people like money"

    My example were also kinda negative. Consider asking a dietitian if you should hire them because the american diet sucks, or asking a gym owner if more fat lazy americans should exercise.

    Something rather obvious about standards of care is emergency rooms will at least go thru the motions of treating anyone with a physical injury, like being found in an alley with a gunshot wound. However mental treatment seems solely determined by payment, well insured people with a spider phobia can get treatment, crazy homeless dude generally isn't being treated. That would seem to imply mental treatment is only a slight step up from 900 number seances and faith healing in general, fool and money soon parted etc. I mean, if their stuff really worked, we'd treat it like emergency room heart attacks, treat their field seriously.