Time for the APA (American Psychiatric Association) to weigh in on B*sh

[npincus]

http://www.psych.org/about_apa/

specifically his mental fitness to perform his duties as president.

It's past time to question his ability to understand and process information (reality) as the future of our country and so many lives hang in the balance. Before he takes this country further down a path that people of ALL political stripes have realized is destructive and counter to objective reality, denying the chaos and disintegration of Iraq. not recognizing the fuitlity of throwing more lives on the pyre of his ego. It is TIME that serious professionals start asking some questions.


The APA Mission statement:

promote the highest quality care for individuals with mental disorders (including mental retardation and substance-related disorders) and their families;

promote psychiatric education and research;

advance and represent the profession of psychiatry; and

serve the professional needs of its membership

[LiberalFighter]

1. They have all been shipped to a secret location

[itsmesgd]

2. he's nucking futs

make checks payable to me, your welcome

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Presonally, I prefer the other APA...

http://www.apa.org/about/

Who We Are

Based in Washington, DC, the American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States. With 150,000 members, APA is the largest association of psychologists worldwide.

Mission Statement
APA Bylaws I.1
The objects of the American Psychological Association shall be to advance psychology as a science and profession and as a means of promoting health, education, and human welfare by

* the encouragement of psychology in all its branches in the broadest and most liberal manner
* the promotion of research in psychology and the improvement of research methods and conditions
* the improvement of the qualifications and usefulness of psychologists through high standards of ethics, conduct, education, and achievement
* the establishment and maintenance of the highest standards of professional ethics and conduct of the members of the Association
* the increase and diffusion of psychological knowledge through meetings, professional contacts, reports, papers, discussions, and publications

thereby to advance scientific interests and inquiry, and the application of research findings to the promotion of health, education, and the public welfare.

And incidentally, in my experience psychologists as a group are far more liberal politically than psychiatrists.

[npincus]

5. oh, thank you

that one didn't come up on my Google search, didn't know of it.

Frankly, any respected organization of mental health professinals works for me. It Chimp's policies can attract written, signed objections from scientists, historians, and scholars from all fields, why silence from the mental helath experts as it appears he may be either unhinged, or becoming so.

Are you in that profession, BTW? Your thoughts?

[Pugee]

6. I am in the mental health field. My guess is that they have not spoken due to a code of ethics.

It would not be ethical to diagnose anyone from afar, without being in a clinical setting. That includes friends, family, (actually, you cant work with them ethically anyway) or the guy at the corner store. One could be kicked out of an organization for something like that.

[npincus]

8. Dr. Justin Frank (author of "Bush on the Couch") did it

He called it "applied pyschoanalysis", applying pyschoanalytic prinicples to a person remotely.

I don't know that B*sh need be diagnosed, but if alarm bells are ringing to their trained ears, shouldn't they ask that he be assesed?

My wishful thinking!

[Jackpine Radical]

9. I'm a psychologist, and pretty much in agreement with

the consensus professional opinion that Bush is personality disordered, with a mix of narcissistic and antisocial traits. You might have a look at Robert Altemeyer's recent work on authoritarianism for additional insight. John Dean's new book, Conservatives Without Conscience, is based largely on Altemeyer. There is also Bush on the Couch (the author is a psychiatrist but his name escapes me at the moment), which is worth looking at. That book picks up on a lot of relevant facts, but the author seems to be an adherent of a rather outmoded perspective (i.e. Melanie Klein's neo-Freudian school) that somewhat colors his interpretations of the facts.

But don't look for any professional organization to take on a sitting President. The organization would have too much to lose. Think IRS audits, Swiftboating, suddenly finding that your profession is no longer an authorized provider for Medicare patients, etc.

[tigereye]

4. he certainly can't always get his words from his brain to his

mouth when he's not on script. But that doesn't mean that he's certifiable. It's more likely that he would need a drug and alcohol counselor ( Bush still seems to be stuck in a certain phase of his life emotionally), and a Speech and Language consult.

[dajoki]

7. I believe...

he is heavily medicated. I posted my assumptions about this on DU some time ago, so I won't go into it again. But I agree it is way past time to question his ability to understand and process information.