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Monday, April 24. 2017

My Yale colleagues call Trump bad names


Why not just call him a poopy-head? Yale Psychiatrists Just Warned There Is Something Seriously Wrong With Trump


If my political history serves me, people in mental health found serious diagnoses for Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 2, but none for Johnson, Clinton, Obama, or Hillary. Is there a pattern here?


Instead of name-calling, I'd like to see some thoughtful policy critiques but I won't hold my breath. Trump Derangement Syndrome (DSM 5006.09) strikes again. We must be kind to the sufferers.

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 16:35 | Comments (13) | Trackbacks (0)

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Psychiatry is a profession in search of a reason to exist. As we learn more and more about neurochemistry, classical psychiatry sounds more and more to me like phrenology. One of my students several years ago was interested in pediatric neurology. I gave her a series of papers on autism and advised her to think seriously about it as I expect autism to be understood and perhaps curable in the next 30 years, her career path. Psychiatry is at a dead end in my opinion and they seem determined to destroy what credibility they have.
#1 Mike-K (Link) on 2017-04-24 17:13 (Reply)
I thought that we weren't supposed to diagnose people from afar? calling someone "crazy" is a slur, right?
#2 MarinaZ on 2017-04-24 17:34 (Reply)
I thought that under the rules of Psychiatry it was malpractice.
#2.1 Adam (Link) on 2017-04-24 17:48 (Reply)
I must be crazy as well, because I give Trump a pretty high score for what he has done already.
#3 Jim on 2017-04-24 19:09 (Reply)
No diagnosis: to be fair, anyone who has read Caro's biography of LBJ would most likely be stumped on what to call all of LBJ's pathological behaviors and severe, ongoing psychological issues. I wouldn't even know where to begin.
#4 JM01 on 2017-04-24 20:07 (Reply)
If my political history serves me, people in mental health found serious diagnoses for Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 2, but none for Johnson, Clinton, Obama, or Hillary. Is there a pattern here?


Indeed there is a pattern. Republican Presidents or candidates for President are insane. Democrat Presidents or candidates for President are as sane as sane can be.

And the Cleveland Browns will win the next Superbowl.
#5 Gringo on 2017-04-24 20:31 (Reply)
Just curious, but do your Yale colleagues have any idea at all what Trump supporters think of and feel towards them? Or what the likely reaction towards them would be if they were encountered and not protected by their current privileged position?
#6 Subotai Bahadur on 2017-04-24 22:33 (Reply)
...We must be kind to the sufferers...

Why? I think either laughter or shunning but not Nice.
#7 Dorf on 2017-04-24 22:52 (Reply)
Diagnosis: Winning! ... Trump has it BAD!
#8 Rick1 on 2017-04-25 02:12 (Reply)
I seem to remember some other group of lefties who used psychiatry against their political enemies. Except, if I remember correctly, these lefties could in fact have their political enemies committed to "psychiatric facilities".

It'll come to me in a minute...
#9 Robert Sendler on 2017-04-25 06:27 (Reply)
The same thing happened to Barry Goldwater, so, you can add him to the list.
#10 oolioo (Link) on 2017-04-25 08:20 (Reply)
I remember Goldwater and they were openly calling him crazy.
#11 Ray on 2017-04-25 15:41 (Reply)
James Gilligan is the husband of Carol Gilligan, she of the infamous research that men and women have different types of morality and moral reason - for which she will still not release the data.
#12 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2017-04-25 20:27 (Reply)

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