I am friggen tired of saying that the media should have mental health experts explaining the psychopathology causing aberrant dangerous to democracy behavior
By Hal Brown, MSW, Retired clinical social worker psychotherapist
Above: click to enlarge my version of RAWSTORY with image made with BeFunky showing four mentally cracked people in the news.
Once upon a time we had Dr. Joyce Brothers and Dr. Ruth Westheimer giving psychological advice to millions of American. Dr. Brothers explained general psychology as it applied to everyday life and Dr. Ruth, as she was called, focused on sex eduction. No topic was too taboo for Dr. Ruth to address.
We have no expert in psychology who regularly appears on MSNBC shows as a regular to help explain the psychopathology of public figures. The only one to do this is Lawrence O'Donnell.Every day they have experts on the law, history, and fascism on their panels.
A notable exception in the mental health field when it comes to Donald Trump is his clinical psychologist niece, Dr. Mary Trump. Why not add a couple of regular experts to weigh in on the psychopathology evident in all figures making news who could undermine democracy?
Currently in our political milieu we have both politicians and non-politicians like Elon Musk and Ye who manifest behavior that strong suggest they suffer from a psychiatric disorder.
On the bottom of this page I am republishing a blog addressing this. I am looking at the same topic in the hope that those who missed the first blog (and others related to the issue) will not only read it but consider the RAWSTORY opening page I checked this morning. By the time you click here these stories will have moved down the page. Who knows what reports of people demonstrating to any rational person that they have so many loose screws that if they depended on them to remain upright they'd be laying flat on their backs.
The aberration of George Santos is what prompted me to reprise the subject.
A word about making a diagnosis without an actual in-person assessment: I am not going to go into depth about The Goldwater Rule in this blog. I wrote about why I don't think it applies to psychotherapists who are qualified to make a diagnosis when they believe they have a responsibility to warn the public that a person in public life represents any kind of danger to our democracy. You can read my thoughts about this on these Daily Kos stories I wrote, three of the five were written in August of 2016:
Above: click to enlarge my version of RAWSTORY with image made with BeFunky showing four mentally cracked people in the news.
PSY-VU: While not breaking the letter of the Goldwater “rule ... Aug. 2013
The never-ending controversy about diagnosing Trump Aug. 2016
PSY-VU: The media finally recognizes what shrinks knew a ... Aug. 2016
A shrink musing in the morning: Trump's version of ... - Daily Kos
Trump’s psychosis has spread to Giuliani, Dershowitz, and rest of GOP: Psychiatrist Bandy Lee, Daily Kos, Jan. 2020
The normalizing of delusional sociopathic grandiose narcissism
- Binge Eating Disorder.
- Caffeine Withdrawal.
- Cannabis Withdrawal.
- Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder.
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder- DMDD.
- Hoarding Disorder.
- Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder – PMDD.