President Trump called for better identification of people with mental illness as a way to stop gun violence and mass shootings. A psychiatrist offers his take on the president’s stance.
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Those who want President Trump out of office should forget about the 25th Amendment; it won’t work as they hope or believe. The amendment is a complex law that – by design – is very hard to use.
Some cite mental illness, or at least instability, as a basis to remove Pres. Trump from office. A doctor and a lawyer use a 1965 novel, ‘Night of Camp David,’ to explain why that’s unlikely.
While negotiating the end of the First World War at the Versailles Peace Conference, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson collapsed. Was it a neurological disorder associated with the Spanish Flu?
American military personnel must pass a fitness for duty exam before they serve. Nuclear weapons handlers undergo a rigorous screening process. Shouldn’t the president also undergo such exams?
Any amateur politician can engage in lying. President Donald Trump is going further than that. He’s engaging in ‘post-truth’.
The midterm elections have put America’s political divide front and center, increasingly invading the work space and stressing out employees.
Revelations about the president’s behavior in a new book and an unsigned op-ed, writes a Yale psychiatrist, support what she and mental health specialists have warned: Trump is dangerously unstable.
Many people have criticized Donald Trump’s mental health. More than two dozen psychiatrists weighed in from afar, and another has briefed members of Congress. Here’s why that might not be good.
There’s a fierce debate about whether it’s ethical for mental health professionals to diagnose politicians they haven’t personally examined.
A president has more than one route out of office – voluntarily or otherwise.
Not even psychiatrists themselves can agree on what ‘mental illness’ is.
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Assistant Clinical Professor, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Wayne State University
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The E. William Davis Jr, M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University
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Emeritus Professor of United States Government and Politics, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster
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Professor of History, McGill University
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Visiting Clinical Professor of Law, Fordham University
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Professor of Organization Behavior, Florida State University
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Research Scientist and Clinical Professor of Medicine, Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Brown University
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Research Fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University
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Law lecturer, University of Sydney
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Coleman P. Burke Professor Emeritus of Law, Case Western Reserve University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, University of Hull
