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Originally Posted by peter12
This is incredibly offensive, and just really an outright attention seeking move.
Everyone knows that real diagnoses of mental illness require a degree of longitudinal testing, and in-person interactions between the subject and professional.
Often multiple opinions are sought before making a diagnosis. Man, America is just crap from top to bottom. Brutal.
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Offensive? Thanks for supporting exactly what I said earlier about trying to reason with some people.
There is a long tradition of psychiatrists and psychologists not making comment on individuals because there is not a chance to review their behaviors through longitudinal analysis or direct interviews. This is encapsulated in the Goldwater Rule and has been observed for decades. Having said that, this panel did observe the Goldwater Rule and provided feedback as a panel. They also had longitudinal data from the public record to review and many third party interviews to rely upon. This is no different than a forensic psychologist conducting a review of similar data and coming to a conclusion, so proper protocol appears to have been followed. Oh, and no, multiple opinions are rarely sought out prior to making a diagnosis. This level of self-second guessing would put psychiatrists out of business almost immediately. Only in the most difficult and extreme instances would a second opinion be required, and Trump is about as open a book as they come.