Psychiatrists are banned from speaking out about politicians. But they felt they had to intervene with Trump
For decades, professional psychologists and psychiatrists have kept schtum with regard to their expert views on political candidates they haven’t personally assessed. Under ethical rules set out by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), shrinks are banned from publicising their professional diagnostic opinions. And yet over the course of last year’s US presidential election campaign and increasingly since the inauguration...
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