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Donald Trump has been widely described by several commentators and some mental-health professionals as exhibiting traits commonly associated with psychopathy — including — but a definitive clinical di...
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 ...
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”...
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...
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, ...
The 25th Amendment became a focal point in October 2025 debates about President Trump’s cognitive fitness after a series of public statements led Democrats and some physicians to call for its invocati...
The most frequently cited and explicitly critical book by psychiatrists about Donald Trump is The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, edited by forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee, which collects essays fr...
Bandy X. Lee is a forensic and social psychiatrist who organized experts to publicly assess Donald Trump’s mental state and edited The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, arguing that his and that mental‑...
A loose coalition of psychiatrists and psychologists—often calling themselves “duty to warn” or led by figures like Bandy Lee and John Gartner—have publicly pointed to patterns in Donald Trump’s publi...
Two distinct waves of public warnings by mental-health professionals about Donald Trump—first in 2017 and again in 2024—are documented in the sources, but the reportage does not provide a complete ros...
The Goldwater Rule is an American Psychiatric Association (APA) ethics guideline adopted in 1973 that bars APA member‑psychiatrists from offering a professional diagnosis of a public figure without a ...
A substantial number of psychiatrists, neurologists, and other mental‑health professionals publicly warned in 2023–2024 that Donald Trump’s public behavior was consistent with possible cognitive decli...
Several prominent psychiatrists and forensic psychiatrists have publicly discussed ’s mental state in media interviews and public forums, but their platforms, claims, and the degree to which they offe...
Courts and clinicians have intersected around Donald Trump’s mental fitness, but the record shows limited, case-by-case judicial handling rather than any sweeping legal determination that he is mental...
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump is a 2017 edited volume that collected 27 essays by psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental‑health professionals who argued that President Donald Trump posed ...
Psychiatric and psychological commentators in books and essays have most commonly pointed to narcissistic traits, dangerous impulsivity or grandiosity, and—among some clinicians—more severe labels suc...
is an ethics annotation that forbids psychiatrists from offering a professional opinion about the mental health of public figures they have not personally examined and authorized to discuss . Since 20...
is an edited volume first published in 2017 by that gathered essays from dozens of psychiatrists, psychologists and mental-health professionals arguing that ’s mental state presented a “clear and pres...
Courts and professional associations have responded to clinicians publicly commenting on ’s psychological traits by reaffirming ethical limits while leaving room for debate: courts’ precedents shaped ...