News Flash: Psychiatrict Diagnoses Trump as a "Charismatic Psychopath"

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I'm pretty shocked that a Psychiatrist can go through all the school and not have heard of the Goldwater Rule. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwater_rule

The Goldwater rule is the informal name given to of Section 7.3 in the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) code of ethics[1] which states it is unethical for psychiatrists to give a professional opinion about public figures they have not examined in person and obtained consent from to discuss their mental health in public statements.[2] It is named after presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.[3]

The issue arose in 1964 when Fact magazine published the article "The Unconscious of a Conservative: A Special Issue on the Mind of Barry Goldwater."[3][4] The magazine polled psychiatrists about American Senator Barry Goldwater and whether he was fit to be president.[5][6] In Goldwater v. Ginzburg Goldwater filed a libel suit in response to the article, he won $75,000 in damages.[3]

So in short, it is neither ethical, legal nor scientifically correct to make disagnosis of public figures you haven't examined yourself. The only reason anybody would give this any credence is because they already thought that about Trump. In which case who cares.