Is
Donald Trump Mentally Ill?
5 Professors of Psychiatry Say Donald Trump is
“unraveling” and Call on Congress “to remove him
from office”
By Richard Green
On November 29, 2016, three
distinguished Professors of
Psychiatry from Harvard and The
University of California decided to
defy “The Goldwater Rule”, publicly
diagnose Donald Trump and to warn
President Obama and the country
about what they saw as his severe
personality disorders and mental
incapacities.
They shared their letter with me and
I posted it in an article here in
The Huffington Post,
“Is Donald Trump Mentally Ill? 3
Professors Of Psychiatry Ask
President Obama To Conduct ‘A Full
Medical And Neuropsychiatric
Evaluation’”
Yesterday these three professors and
two additional professors from Yale
and Columbia University felt the
need to inform The United States
Congress that “The signs of the
president’s unraveling are stark”
and that “The power of the
presidency has accentuated Mr.
Trump’s failings with devastating
effects”.
They urge Congress to
“invoke the Constitutional
provisions to remove him from
office.” They shared this letter
with me and I post it here.
July
17, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
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July
11, 2017
To
Members of the U.S. Senate and House of
Representatives:
Since the
election of 2016, each of us has warned
against President Trump’s alarming
psychological instability, which has been
apparent in his repeated failures to
distinguish between reality and fantasy and
his erratic responses to stress and crisis.
We were also concerned about his tendency to
become enraged at the slightest criticism.
See:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-greene/is-donald-trump-mentally_b_13693174.html
The
signs of the president’s unraveling are
stark, and they are contributing to his
inability to govern: his failure to guard
against hacking of our elections and related
threats to national security, his decimation
of the State Department and other vital
government agencies, his irrational,
unilateral withdrawal from the world’s
commitment to prevent catastrophic climate
change, his intemperate exploitation of the
presidency to enrich himself and his family,
his unremitting threats against a free
press, his vitriolic verbal assaults against
anyone (especially any woman) who questions
his actions or state of mind, and his
imposition of false narratives whenever the
truth casts him in a bad light.
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The
power of the presidency has accentuated Mr.
Trump’s failings with devastating effects.
His psychological isolation – including his
tenuous relationship to reality – has led to
the dangerous isolation of the United States
from the rest of the world.
Our
Constitution has provisions for removing any
president who is unable to discharge the
duties of office. For the sake of our
country and the world, we urge our elected
representatives to summon their courage so
that lawful steps can be taken to end the
Trump presidency.
Judith L. Herman, M.D., Professor of
Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Robert Jay Lifton, M.D., Professor Emeritus,
CUNY, and Lecturer in Psychiatry, Columbia
University
Nanette Gartrell, M.D., Associate Clinical
Professor of Psychiatry, University of
California San Francisco (1988-2011)
Dee
Mosbacher, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Clinical
Professor, Department of Community Health
Systems, University of California, San
Francisco (2005-2013)
Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., Assistant
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale
School of Medicine.
Contributors to forthcoming book,
The Dangerous Case of Donald
Trump
This article was first published by
Huffington Post
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of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
opinions of Information Clearing House.
