Psychiatrists Smack Down Yale Psychiatrist

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Her peers have indirectly dressed down the Yale psychiatrist who diagnosed the president as unstable without ever examining him personally. “The largest psychiatric organization in the world is calling for an end to ‘arm chair’ psychiatry in light of allegations that President Trump is mentally unfit to serve,” Jessica Chasmar reports in The Washington Times. “The American Psychiatric Association (APA) released a statement Tuesday reaffirming its commitment to ‘The Goldwater Rule,’ which states that it is unethical for psychiatrists to diagnose public figures they have not personally examined.”

“The APA’s statement comes as Mr. Trump’s critics openly question his mental capacity for the office in light of Michael Wolff’s hotly debated tell-all book about the Trump family. Yale University psychiatry professor Dr. Bandy X. Lee, editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President, claimed to have recently met with more than a dozen Congress members to discuss Mr. Trump’s mental health.”

“The APA said the public speculation by psychiatrists ‘undermines the credibility and integrity of the profession and the physician-patient relationship.’”