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Health/Medical Title: Trump's mental health poses 'existential threat' to the world Trump's inability to feel guilt leaves us all 'vulnerable'Donald Trump’s mental health poses an "existential threat" to the world because of his power to launch nuclear weapons at any time and for any reason, a leading psychiatrist has warned.
John Zinner said the US President's inability to feel guilt makes us all “vulnerable” to his “inner rage”.
He believes Mr Trump suffers from a fundamental self-esteem problem, which could lead to serious consequences.
The American Psychiatric Association states it is unethical for members to speculate over the mental health of a public figure from a distance under the Goldwater rule.
However, the clinic professor from George Washington University told The Times he felt he had a duty to society to speak out.
“We are facing an existential threat from Donald Trump because of his unfettered authority to launch nuclear weapons at any time and for any reason,” he said.
“[He] has a particular kind of character that’s very well known, especially by psychoanalytically orientated mental health people. What it involves is a fundamental self-esteem problem; an insecure self-esteem, side by side with a sense of grandiosity. So the person has a very contradictory image of themselves.”
He also claimed the former real estate mogul has “an extreme sensitivity to slights”, saying: “He can’t take criticism, and blames others, as he’s doing right now, blaming his staff for all the things that he did. His other reaction is rage.”
Dr Zinner is not the first psychiatrist to break the Goldwater rule, something that has divided medical opinion since Mr Trump’s inauguration.
The American Psychological Association issued a statement regarding their version of rule during the 2016 presidential campaign, after a number of media outlets asked them to weigh in on Mr Trump’s psychological fitness to become president.
“Our Code of Ethics clearly warns psychologists against diagnosing any person, including public figures, whom they have not personally examined,” President Susan McDaniel wrote at the time.
The clause, dating back to 1973, was named after the 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.
Over 2,000 psychiatrists responded to Fact magazine’s 1964 survey asking if Mr Goldwater was psychologically fit for the presidency in their estimation.
The majority said he was not and the magazine published nearly 40 pages of the psychiatrists’ responses shortly before the election. Mr Goldwater lost and subsequently sued the now-defunct magazine for libel and won. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 4. Donald Trump’s mental health poses an "existential threat" to the world because He dares to stand up to progressives and their world destroying ideology and Nazi ways(Even Stalin would be impressed). Progressives are the borg of politics. Join or die, its your choice.
If only we had elected Barry Goldwater back then many of the ills of today would not be here. If you are looking for government and especially federal govenrment for answers you are lost and have no clue.
#2. To: Justified (#1) If only we had elected Barry Goldwater back then many of the ills of today would not be here.
WE wouldn't be here either... NONE of us...
#3. To: Willie Green (#2) Oh please. That was LBJ's over the top crap. Don't forget who sent our boys to Vietnam and then control the war through politics from halfway around the world. Im sorry that your life evolves around government handouts but the rest of the hard working world works just fine with out.
#4. To: Justified (#3)
Replies to Comment # 4. Which LBJ will we get? The one that put the hit out on JFK or the one that sent our boys to Vietnam with their hands tied to their leg? Or the LBJ that when it got tough he just quit? After the last 2 decades of watching the msm and political groups I can bet every word used against Goldwater was taken out of context.
#6. To: Willie Green (#4) Who about that one? Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. He nailed it. How about this It is a fact that Lyndon Johnson and his curious crew seem to believe that progress in this country is best served simply and directly through the ever-expanding gift power of the everlastingly growing Federal Government. One thing we all know, and I assure you I do: that's a much easier way to get votes than my way. It always has been. It's political Daddyism, and it's as old as demagogues and despotism. Yep Nailed it again.
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