Science Is Trump actually losing mental competence?

how is he "clearly not"? dude for real talks like a rambling geezer.

and nobody on here gives a shit about clinton at this point except you. if she was president id be saying the exact same things about her.

 

Why do people do this? You know what it reminds me of?

 

A few points here. First, Psychology is not a hard science so there's going to be greater disagreement among practitioners than in, y'know, Physics. So it would be easy to find one Psychologist who would diagnose Trump as X and another who would say not-X. After all, they even use different manuals depending on where in the world you are (DSM-V predominates in North America but not Europe).

Second, this thread is a grab bag. I've suggested both that Trump is a narcissist and that he's got dementia. These are related only in that they are things that affect the brain. One would be pretty much lifelong, the other would be steadily getting worse, and an expert on one is unlikely to be an expert on the other (which is less a "psychological" condition than a physical one that manifests in behavior and speech).

Third, the point that you cite above is more a normative restriction on official diagnoses. As official diagnoses can have major effects on the lives of people so diagnosed (jobs and so forth) then psychologists are under an ethical, professional duty to be super-cautious in giving official diagnoses. Does that mean that most Psychologists believe that they can't assign an unofficial diagnosis to somebody who's lived his life in public for decades like Trump, of whom we have thousands of hours of behavior on film/tape? Of course not! We have more material for making a diagnosis of Trump than we do of practically any of the patients that psychologists actually diagnose!

 

I am fully supportive of Hillary's walking in the woods activities! Go Hillary! Walk long and proud!

 

as any "I AM NOT A TRUMP FAN" would obviously state, if anyone says negative things about trump, they have an agenda, and whatever they say is worthless. if they say positive things about trump, then they are just objectively seeing that trump is rad, because he is.

 

Hillary is burned out...has been for a long time....but Trump is certifiably looney tunes....mix that with pathological liar and long history of bad behavior ....you don't need to be a psychologist to see through Trump like a glass of water...I get that conservatives are grasping for reasons to keep the liberals from having any clout...and they really don't in Washington these days....I'm counting on some rational Republicans to keep some sort of damage control because Trump is flailing from within'.....the msg from our white house is...nobody's home...

 

Remember: Psychologists often face moral dilemmas. There are famous cases where patients have said to their therapist that they have murderous thoughts and the psychologist has to decide if the danger to the public trumps the patient's right of confidentiality. I think there are cases where this happened, the therapist kept quiet, the patient killed someone, and the therapist was sued.

 

Soon Jared Kushner will have ALL the jobs.

 

the liberal elite fake news media probably melted reagans brain with their secret jew lasers.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/17/ronald-reagan-alzheimers-president-son

 

Except for when Iran Contra was going on. That's when he had temporary blackouts.

 

This is.......incredible

 

Trump will get Congress to investigate that right after they've finished investigating the Obama wiretap of Trump Tower and the 5 million illegal votes.

 

Trump won't say anything....he'll have Spicer take the heat and blurt his standard...I don't know, I'll have to get back to you...why don't you guys ask about the coal industry?