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The Goldwater Rule and its application to public figures like Donald Trump, with Dr. Bandy X. Lee's warnings sparking debate.
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...
The Goldwater Rule is an APA ethics annotation—Section 7.3—adopted in 1973 that forbids psychiatrists from offering professional opinions about the mental health of public figures they have not person...
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...
Professional psychiatric organizations outside the American Psychiatric Association have not presented a single, unified stance on the Goldwater Rule during political crises; responses range from expl...
The Goldwater rule is an ethical guideline adopted by the American Psychiatric Association in 1973 that forbids psychiatrists from offering professional opinions about public figures they have not per...
A clinician publicly diagnosing a living public figure without an examination primarily breaches professional ethics rather than creating a clear-cut new criminal offense; the dominant sanction is pro...
Major U.S. professional bodies—most prominently the American Psychiatric Association—have formally limited their members from publicly diagnosing or declaring the mental fitness of public figures thro...