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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" (TDS) is a pejorative label applied to intense, often dismissive criticism of Donald Trump that his defenders characterize as irrational or pathologically excessive; comme...
Psychiatrists and other mental-health professionals have publicly expressed serious concerns about Donald J. Trump’s mental state, but the record shows a mix of careful caution and more direct claims:...
Charles Krauthammer introduced the "derangement syndrome" formulation—originally "Bush derangement syndrome"—and is widely credited as the conceptual origin later applied to Donald Trump; Krauthammer ...
"Trump derangement syndrome" (TDS) is a colloquial, usually pejorative label for intense negative reactions to Donald Trump; in professional manuals or by mainstream psychiatric organizations. Comment...
Discussion of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” (TDS) appears widely in opinion pieces, commentary and some proposals in U.S. politics, but available sources show it is not an accepted psychiatric diagnosi...
More than 200 mental-health professionals publicly signed open letters and petitions across multiple years asserting that Donald Trump was “unfit” for office; one prominent 2024 action gathered about ...
DSM-5 distinguishes having an atypical sexual interest (paraphilia) from having a mental disorder; under DSM-5 an adult who is sexually attracted to prepubescent children does not automatically meet c...
Medical professionals and commentators have publicly weighed in on Donald Trump’s mental fitness, with some clinicians and commentators warning of decline and others — including his White House physic...
Kamala Harris has publicly supported access to gender-affirming care for transgender people and has, in past statements and questionnaires, said she would ensure incarcerated and other trans people ca...
More than 200 mental-health professionals publicly signed an open letter (run as a New York Times ad in October 2024) calling Donald Trump “grossly unfit for leadership,” saying he shows “malignant na...
Multiple psychiatrists and psychologists have publicly commented on Donald Trump’s mental fitness over the past decade, with a prominent group warning of dangerous traits (e.g., “malignant narcissism”...
Multiple analysts and clinicians have publicly asserted that Donald Trump shows behaviors consistent with cognitive decline, including language errors, memory lapses, and unusual gait or motor signs; ...
A broad set of clinicians, commentators and analysts have identified recurring patterns in ’s public behavior that map onto —grandiosity, entitlement, need for admiration—and to antisocial and paranoi...
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump is a 2017 edited volume in which 27 psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental‑health professionals assert that President Donald Trump’s observed behavior poses a...
Recent reporting and expert commentary present conflicting evidence about whether Donald Trump is experiencing mental decline: , while medical professionals and the subject’s allies dispute those inte...
Multiple analysts and mental-health professionals have publicly raised concerns about Donald J. Trump’s cognitive function and personality traits, but the publicly cited claims vary in method, scope, ...
Donald Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDDS) is a partisan label applied to intense negative reactions toward Donald Trump; proponents describe , while critics argue the term is a rhetorical tool meant to...
The Goldwater Rule, adopted by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 1973, forbids psychiatrists from offering professional diagnoses of public figures whom they have not personally examined a...
The Goldwater Rule is an ethical constraint that discourages psychiatrists and, in practice, many psychologists from offering professional diagnoses of living public figures they have not personally e...
Clinical literature treats sexual attraction to animals as a form of paraphilia that appears in the DSM under “Other Specified Paraphilic Disorder” when it causes distress or impairment; it is not a s...