"President Donald Trump suffers from a dangerous mental illness and is not mentally fit for office." - This was the thesis announced in April 2017 at a scientific conference at Yale University by a group of psychiatrists and mental health specialists. "The president's 'paranoia' and 'delusions' prompted them to make their position public. - We have an ethical responsibility to warn the public about Donald Trump's dangerous mental illness," Dr. John Gartner, a psychotherapist who founded the organization Duty to Warn, said at the conference. This one has brought together more than a dozen mental health professionals who think like him: Trump is dangerous because he is sick. Mentally.
Prof. James Gilligan, an extremely experienced psychiatrist at New York University and an expert in predicting violent actions, explained at the conference that he has worked with some of the most dangerous people in society - murderers, rapists - and is convinced of the danger posed by Trump's behavior. - I can recognize the dangers from afar. And it doesn't take 50 years of studying dangerous people to know what a threat this man is," he argued. His petition calling on Trump to step down was signed by... 41,000 psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists and other mental health professionals.
A story of ordinary madness
In October 2017, the book "Donald Trump's Dangerous Case: 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts assess the president." In 360 pages, specialists in "essays" warned about the instability of the US president and the danger it entails. Among the authors were such notables as Prof. Philip Zimbardo - perhaps the best-known psychologist to study evil in man. He is also the author of a famous experiment in the 1960s in which a group of students were divided into prisoners and their guards. The book is also co-authored by Dr. Noam Chomsky - a famous American linguist from MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a prominent specialist in psycholinguistics and one of the most quoted scientists in the world.
With such authors, such a topic and media publicity, the book already hit the New York Times bestseller list in November. On Amazon, it earned 4.5 out of 5 stars with more than 500 individual reviews. One of the shorter ones published in the media read: "Donald Tru...
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