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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 ...
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 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”...
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 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 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Mental-health professionals and commentators marshaled a cluster of psychological and psychiatric arguments to claim Donald Trump was unfit for office: personality-pathology-based diagnoses (notably n...
No major professional psychological organization has publicly released a formal, individual intelligence test or clinical diagnostic assessment of Donald Trump; public statements and media reporting i...
Bandy X. Lee is best known for organized, repeated interventions about Donald Trump’s fitness for office—editing The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump and leading the World Mental Health Coalition’s “fit...
Medical and psychiatric ethics—especially the American Psychiatric Association’s Goldwater rule—have constrained many clinicians from publicly diagnosing Donald Trump without examination, even as othe...
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‑...