Three Professors of Psychiatry call for "neuropsychiatric evaluation"

[psionl0]

Great idea! So you support the letter?

By three partisan sore losers? NUH-UH!

If psychological testing ever becomes a constitutional requirement for people who would hold office in government then the time for that is before an election, not after.

 

[theprestige]

And those procedures are?

You seem to think you know something the rest of us don't. I imagine you imagine there are magic procedures one uses to make a diagnosis.

Guess what? The bulk of a diagnosis of personality disorder is based on observation.

Then why do the authors of the open letter say this?

Professional standards do not permit us to venture a diagnosis for a public figure whom we have not evaluated personally.
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Incidentally, we seem to have found the "magic procedures" that have eluded you: Personal evaluation. It seems it was here all along, and we all knew it.

 

[psionl0]

And those procedures are?

You seem to think you know something the rest of us don't. I imagine you imagine there are magic procedures one uses to make a diagnosis.

Guess what? The bulk of a diagnosis of personality disorder is based on observation.

You are actually scaring me.

Like many, I would have thought that a professional diagnosis would be done according to standard well established procedures - not biased individuals asking loaded questions and leaping to a pre-formed conclusion.

 

[WilliamSeger]

By three partisan sore losers? NUH-UH!

If psychological testing ever becomes a constitutional requirement for people who would hold office in government then the time for that is before an election, not after.

Lots of people have been trying to raise awareness of Trump's NPD, and what it really means, since he announced. It's just another example of how the mainstream media completely failed in its responsibility to inform the public. Anyway, your trivializing it doesn't make it any less noticeable or any less serious. You still don't get it: This will make a difference, and not for the good.

 

[psionl0]

Lots of people have been trying to raise awareness of Trump's NPD, and what it really means, since he announced.

You call a campaign by Democrats a professional diagnosis?

 

[theprestige]

Lots of people have been trying to raise awareness of Trump's NPD

Trump's what?

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

You are actually scaring me.

Like many, I would have thought that a professional diagnosis would be done according to standard well established procedures - not biased individuals asking loaded questions and leaping to a pre-formed conclusion.

Complete dodge duly noted.

I didn't say asking loaded questions was needed. I asked you to tell us if that was what was needed. What more would be gained by an in-person exam?

You reject the qualified professionals and instead dodge my question with an ad hom about what the diagnosis of NPD entails? Yep, Dunning-Kruger.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

You call a campaign by Democrats a professional diagnosis?

Wow, that's an incredible pile of straw you have there.

 

[theprestige]

I didn't say asking loaded questions was needed. I asked you to tell us if that was what was needed. What more would be gained by an in-person exam?

A diagnosis that met the professional standards of the profession, for one thing.

You reject the qualified professionals

Qualified professionals who are explicitly refusing to give a professional diagnosis.

and instead dodge my question with an ad hom about what the diagnosis of NPD entails?

Isn't that exactly a question that should be answered by qualified professionals? I mean, if you or I can diagnose someone with a clinical psychological disorder, then why are professional opinions even necessary? You can't have it both ways. If you want us to take these guys seriously, then we must take seriously the fact that they have not made any diagnosis.