I am the editor of “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President.” We represent a much larger number of concerned mental health professionals who have come forward to warn against the president’s psychological instability and the dangers it poses. We now number in the thousands.
We are currently witnessing more than his usual state of instability — in fact, a pattern of decompensation: increasing loss of touch with reality, marked signs of volatility and unpredictable behavior, and an attraction to violence as a means of coping. These characteristics place our country and the world at extreme risk of danger.
Is he their patient? Did they ever have a session? No! Imagine if a 'gadol' would issue a ruling based on the word of a psychologist who never saw the patient. How would we feel about such a 'gadol'?
ReplyDeleteWe have all been here together on this blog with such discussions. I was actually alluding to those discussions. I don't feel that such gedoilim are correct at all. And so I don't give any credibility to these psychologists either.
ReplyDeleteGedolim do it all the time how do you feel about such gedolim?
ReplyDelete"I am the editor of 'The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President.'"
ReplyDeleteOooh. Impressive. 27 -- Count 'em! -- 27 experts. If there had only been 26, maybe I wouldn't be so impressed. 28 would be overkill. 27, To quote Goldilocks, is "juuust right!"
Really. If the case is so airtight, wouldn't one expert suffice?
"We represent a much larger number of concerned mental health professionals who have come forward to warn against the president’s psychological instability and the dangers it poses. We now number in the thousands."
Thousands. Now I'm overwhelmed. Pretty soon we'll have more people than attended the inauguration.
"We are currently witnessing more than his usual state of instability — in fact, a pattern of decompensation: increasing loss of touch with reality, marked signs of volatility and unpredictable behavior, and an attraction to violence as a means of coping."
"Decompensation". Hmmm. That's a new one. One of those fancy psych words designed to make mere mortals feel awed at the scientific prowess of the degreed ones.
Consider me duly awed.
"Increasing loss of touch with reality."
But Democrats who can't accept that they lost the election -- they ARE in touch with reality.
"Marked signs of volatility and unpredictable behavior."
But BLM and Antifa are cool, calm and collected. Their riots are well thought out and their behavior at their rallies is completely in line with civil discourse.
"An attraction to violence as a means of coping."
Quite so. As has been said by others, the violence of Antifa is considered to be free speech, while the free speech of those Antifa disagrees with is considered violence.
In other words, Donald Trump is crazy according to these "concerned mental health professionals" because these professionals find him disagreeable.
To quote these whiny professionals and use it against them: "These characteristics place our country and the world at extreme risk of danger."
That's right. Leave the politics to everyone else. When someone assumes the mantle of being a mental health professional, they lose their moral right to be involved in politics FROM A PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVE. If they want to express concern as a lay citizen, all the power to them. But to bludgeon with their diplomas is a no-no.
And the reason is clear: people are trained to follow their "doctors" and those with "doctorates" without questioning. And mental health doctors and doctorates are trained to discount anyone who questions their authority. It's a perfect system that can be summed up as, "We're always right."
But that attitude has no place in a national debate.
The government has the Hatch Act, which prohibits government employees from being involved in politics.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch\_Act\_of\_1939
But it doesn't prevent hatchet jobs from mental health professionals crudely inserting themselves into the public arena.