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Armchair diagnosing do's and don'ts

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🗓️ 26 July 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Psychoanalysts disagree with psychiatrists about upholding the Goldwater Rule which forbids psychiatrists from offering opinions on a person they have not personally evaluated.

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0:00.0

Tuesday morning, Maine Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, and her Democratic colleague, Jack Reed, of Rhode Island, were caught on a hot mic after a Senate subcommittee meeting, musing on the president's mental health.

0:14.2

I mean, I don't say that.

0:18.0

No, likely.

0:18.9

It's hard to hear, but right at the top of the tape, Senator Reid says, quote, I think he's crazy.

0:25.5

This is crazy.

0:26.6

Not an original observation.

0:28.8

Ever since his inauguration, the president's erratic behavior has spawned all sorts of amateur psychology, including diagnoses of narcissistic personality disorder, borderline

0:39.6

personality disorder, and even the toll of untreated venereal disease. There's also been talk

0:46.3

about invoking the 25th Amendment, removing the president from office on the grounds of

0:51.4

mental incapacity. And it isn't all Democrats.

0:55.3

Bill Maher on his show asked Senator Al Franken what the Republicans were saying behind

1:00.6

closed doors about President Trump.

1:03.7

Franken said there's a range.

1:05.7

Some will say that he's not right mentally.

1:14.9

And then some are harsher.

1:18.5

Then came last weekend and the Boy Scout Jamboree,

1:23.3

Trump addressing 45,000 young boys about the virtues of scouting? No, not much that.

1:32.1

Who the hell wants to speak about politics when I'm in front of the boys' scouts? Do you remember

1:36.7

that incredible night with the maps and the Republicans are red and the Democrats are blue

1:43.7

and that map was so red, it was unbelievable,

1:47.5

and they didn't know what this is.

1:49.1

And hopefully, he's going to get the votes tomorrow to start our path toward killing

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