List of Psychiatrists and psychologists who have come out to say Donald Trump is mentally ill [AI QUERY]
Since 2017, hundreds of mental health professionals have publicly questioned Donald Trump's mental fitness, often citing a "duty to warn" the public about perceived dangers. Many of these experts contributed to the 2017 bestseller The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump or signed high-profile petitions organised by groups like Duty to Warn and the World Mental Health Coalition. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Prominent Experts and Contributors
The following psychiatrists and psychologists are among the most cited for their public assessments: [6]
- Dr. Bandy X. Lee: A forensic psychiatrist formerly at Yale School of Medicine who edited The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump and founded the World Mental Health Coalition.
- Dr. John Gartner: A psychologist and former Johns Hopkins professor who founded the group Duty to Warn. He has frequently described Trump as having "malignant narcissism".
- Dr. Robert Jay Lifton: A renowned psychiatrist at Columbia University known for his work on "malignant normality" and thought reform.
- Dr. Lance Dodes: A retired Harvard Medical School professor who has specifically focused on traits he identifies as sociopathy.
- Dr. Judith Lewis Herman: A psychiatrist and professor at Harvard Medical School who co-authored statements warning of Trump's "unravelling".
- Dr. Philip Zimbardo: Famous for the Stanford Prison Experiment, he and Rosemary Sword analysed Trump's behaviour as "extreme present hedonism".
- Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman: A past president of the American Psychiatric Association, who suggested a diagnosis of "incipient dementia" in 2017. [1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
Collective Statements and Petitions
- "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" (2017/2019): This book featured 27 (later expanded to 37) mental health professionals, including Gail Sheehy, William J. Doherty, Noam Chomsky, Craig Malkin, Tony Schwartz, and Elizabeth Mika.
- 2024 Open Letter: Over 230 mental health professionals signed a letter organized by the Anti-Psychopath PAC, stating Trump's behaviour meets the criteria for antisocial personality disorder and malignant narcissism.
- 2024 Dementia Petition: Dr. John Gartner launched a petition on Change.org specifically focused on "probable dementia," which hundreds of licensed professionals signed. [2, 3, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16]
Professional Context: The "Goldwater Rule"
These public statements remain highly controversial within the medical community. The American Psychiatric Association maintains the Goldwater Rule, which considers it unethical for psychiatrists to provide professional opinions about public figures they have not personally examined. Critics of this rule argue that their "duty to warn" about a leader's perceived instability outweighs professional protocol. [1, 4, 11, 17, 18]
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[11] https://www.vox.com
Comments
The more information AI gets the less reliable its answers are, as it can think stigma is a more important social event than social sanction by use of medical jargon to quickly describe some persons inferior and dangerous judgement in the field of public policy making. The delusion of AGI is a selling point and a weak link, the more information an AI ingests, it has to make split second decisions without reference to real world and hallucinates rather big mistakes in its split second reasoning, those mistakes will get far larger with AGI.
Sider AI refuses to answer this question, I believe it has been programmed not to answer the question by managerial prerogative that is politically biased, making great fanfare of the Goldwater rule and zero analysis of public peril by ‘the Freud example’ of having clinical notes on Hitlers mental illness that he refused to divulge to the world on ethics grounds, enabling Hitler's mass murder.