Here’s the Fox News story.
Forget everything you’ve been reading about President Donald Trump being so mentally unstable that he is too dangerous to be president.
Forget how he was described as a dangerous malignant narcissist, as psychologist John Gartner, one of the founders of Duty to Warn,* put it a few days ago on Salon)…
Forget what another founder of Duty to Warn, psychiatrist Bandy Lee said on French TV yesterday: that Trump has demonstrated dangerousness through his impulsively, recklessness, paranoia, a loose grip on reality, lack of empathy which could lead to dire consequences, the way he’s incited others to violence, a constant need to burnish a sense of power, and more.
Forget everything you’ve read on Daily Kos by several experienced psychotherapists, including myself and psychoanalyst Howard Covitz.
Don’t waste your time looking at my website where hundreds of articles published about the Duty to Warn movement dating back a year when the first several were published are archived.
It’s all Fake News.
Most of all, do not under any circumstance believe anything you read in “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump” despite the positive reviews in Psychology Today and elsewhere, and despite it’s being listed on the list in the Washington Post “The most enlightening, irritating, daring and disturbing books of 2017” below:
Most daring book I read this year: “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President” (Thomas Dunne Books) by Bandy X. Lee (ed.)
Many euphemisms are deployed to describe President Trump’s state of mind — erratic, unpredictable, temperamentally unfit — but this book takes a riskier stance. In more than two dozen essays, psychiatrists and other contributors find Trump’s perceived traits consistent with symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder, sociopathy and other maladies. “Anyone as mentally unstable as Mr. Trump simply should not be entrusted with the life-and-death powers of the presidency,” Judith Lewis Herman of Harvard Medical School and Bandy X. Lee of the Yale School of Medicine write in the prologue. Speaking out despite professional prohibitions, the authors offer conclusions both tentative and urgent. [Read the review.]
Fox managed to find someone who can call themselves a psychotherapist to debunk our fake news. I kid you not, he’s “A Therapist Who Preps White-Collar Criminals for Prison Time.” His claim to fame is, in fact the interview in The Atlantic with that title. Here’s a profile from the article.
Andrew Snyder has worked in the criminal-justice system for over 30 years, starting as a correctional officer with the California Department of Corrections. After retiring from the criminal-justice system, Snyder pursued a graduate degree and became a therapist to work with first-time offenders and their families before, during, and after serving time. Snyder also has a podcast, Prison Life, in which he speaks to white-collar criminals about their motivations and how their lives changed as a result of their misdeeds.
The author of the Fox article is a Hawaii State Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified Substance Abuse Counselor. He also has a website about his private practice.
Clearly he is far more qualified than all of the other Duty to Warn therapists put together.
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* What do I mean by Duty to Warn — read
At Yale, Psychiatrists Cite Their ‘Duty to Warn’ About an Unfit President
Wednesday, Nov 22, 2017 · 3:55:37 AM +00:00 · HalBrown
The American Spectator had an article by a non-therapist pronouncing that Trump was not mentally ill — but then again, who reads the American Spectator? It begins:
This after eight years of Obama and his reckless megalomania?
After a year of investigation by the FBI and various media outfits, no one has turned up one shred of evidence that Trump colluded with Russia to affect the 2016 election. As a result, the left has decided to focus on a new narrative: That Trump is mentally unfit for office. CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times and virtually every mainstream media outlet have been busy featuring pundits or “mental health” experts who are making absurd claims that Trump is mentally unfit to serve as President.