Hal Brown Jan 20 --- 2020
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Jan. 21, 2020
In view of this "China sentences ex-boss of Interpol to 13 years for bribes" I wonder what President Xi thinks of Trump's belief that bribes are acceptable.
While the Democrats struggle with McConnell to get their perfectly reasonable request for witnesses, documents, and a trial that doesn't extend until 2 AM, we see Bandy Lee insisting that men in white coats confront the Secret Service to haul Trump off to a psychiatric unit for an emergency evaluation. Give me a break!
I think she knows more about psychiatry than she does about politics and how the Senate functions.
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Question to Dr. Barnhost: I think Dr. Lee would argue that the president poses a danger to others. We discussed the escalating tensions with Iran, for example.
Answer: Well, I think it's hard to disagree with the fact that our president poses a danger. Personal politics aside, every president poses a danger to some people every time they order any kind of military action, any kind of rescue operation. You're putting people's lives at risk, and as president that's something that again is an analysis you make a lot. Whether it's troops, or emergency personnel or your Secret Service, you're putting people's lives at risk and in danger.
Now whether or not you think Trump is making those decisions in the thoughtful calculated way with the council of expert advisors is a whole different problem. But yeah, I would agree that he, like those who have happened before him, is putting lives at risk. Maybe more recklessly and with less knowledge and foresight than other presidents have. However, a mental health hold is only appropriate for somebody, and it's only legally applicable to somebody who's putting people's lives at risk because of an untreated mental illness.
Secondarily, the purpose of that mental health hold. It’s not to sweep the streets and cleanse society of anybody who poses any kind of risk of danger. That's way beyond what the psychiatric system can handle. It's to treat those people who are suffering from an untreated mental illness that's causing them to be dangerous. It's to treat them and get them better. People who are just out there committing acts of violence — armed robbery, domestic abuse, murder — for the most part, they're not driven by mental illness.
Very little of that violence is driven by an untreated mental illness. About 4 percent of community violence is driven by an untreated mental illness. So the other 96 percent are just people out there doing bad things, and it's not appropriate to put all those people on an involuntary mental health hold and lock them up in a hospital for 72 hours, do nothing to them and then release them.
And that gets to the second aspect of this, which is that there's no real point of holding somebody who's dangerous. Yes, I agree that Trump is putting many people's lives at risk. But putting them on an involuntary psychiatric hold when there's no treatment for what ails them and then releasing them later? Maybe we get three days without him tweeting, but that's all that's going to get us.
Amy Barnhorst, MD is Vice Chair for Community Mental Health in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, Davis, where she runs a large psychiatric hospital and crisis unit, and writes and presents nationally on mental illness and gun violence. In her clinical work, she treats patients with serious mental illness who are in an emergency room, in jail, or on a psychiatric unit. As a faculty member at the UC Davis School of Medicine, she supervises medical students and residents, and teaches about psychiatry, firearm violence and suicide, and public mental health. She has published multiple papers on firearms, mental illness, and the law, and has presented to policy makers around the country as an expert on these issues. Note that she is an ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, and Bandy Lee is an ASSISTANT clinical professor. In my experience these aren't usually professors on the tenure track. Bandy Lee makes a point of not representing Yale University when she makes public statements. However she certainly makes no secret of being a professor in their psychiatry department.
We now have a World Mental Health Coalition with Lee as the president. I assume it was Bandy Lee who originally called her group the NATIONAL COALITION OF CONCERNED MENTAL HEALTH EXPERTS. Mercifully neither had a Wikipedia page. I suppose being a mere national coalition wasn't global enough for her. Perhaps I should organize the anti-Trump therapists I know into own organization: Sensible Therapists of the Universe: Going Boldly Where No Therapists Have Gone Before.
Bandy Lee made a huge contribution to the movement of psychotherapists informing
We now have a World Mental Health Coalition with Lee as the president. I assume it was Bandy Lee who originally called her group the NATIONAL COALITION OF CONCERNED MENTAL HEALTH EXPERTS. Mercifully neither had a Wikipedia page. I suppose being a mere national coalition wasn't global enough for her. Perhaps I should organize the anti-Trump therapists I know into own organization: Sensible Therapists of the Universe: Going Boldly Where No Therapists Have Gone Before.
Bandy Lee made a huge contribution to the movement of psychotherapists informing the public about Trump's dangerous psychopatholgy. As editor of "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" she became a go-to expert for articles and television interviews along with Drs. John Gartner, Lance Dodes, Steve Buser, and a few others.
I regret that she has now gone too far and in television parlance, she has jumped the shark.
Jan. 20, 2020
Bandy Lee made a huge contribution to the movement of psychotherapists informing the public about Trump's dangerous psychopatholgy. As editor of "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" she became a go-to expert for articles and television interviews along with Drs. John Gartner, Lance Dodes, Steve Buser, and a few others.
I regret that she has now gone too far and in television parlance, she has jumped the shark.
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| Jumping the shark is the moment when something that was once popular, but that no longer warrants the attention it previously received, makes an attempt at publicity, which only serves to highlight its irrelevance. The phrase derives from a scene in a Season 5 episode of the 1970s sitcom Happy Days in which the character Fonzie jumps over a shark while on water-skis.[This gimmick gimmick strayed absurdly outside the original storyline of the sitcom. |
Trump ‘Honors’ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. By Visiting His DC Memorial – for 30 Seconds
Jan. 20, 2020
Trump Turns MLK Day Tweet Into Tribute To His 2017 Inauguration
Read story: Kellyanne Conway actually tries to defend Trump on impeachment by using Martin Luther King
Here's her quote:
(NBC News reported Geoff) Bennett asked Conway how Trump was observing the holiday.
“Well, I can tell you the president is preparing for Davos and agrees with many of the things that Dr. Martin Luther King stood for, and agreed with for many years — including unity and equality. And [Trump’s] not the one trying to tear the country apart through an impeachment process and a lack of substance that really is very shameful at this point. I’ve held my opinion on it for a very long time, but when you see the articles of impeachment that came out, I don’t think it was Dr. King’s vision to have Americans dragged through a process where the president is not going to be removed from office, is not being charged with bribery, extortion, high crimes and misdemeanors. And I think that anybody who cares about ‘and justice for all’ on today or any day of the year will appreciate the fact that the president will have a full-throttle defense on the facts, and everybody should have that. I, this morning, was reading some of the lesser-known passages by Dr. King and I appreciate the fact that we as a nation respect him by giving him his own day, and I’m happy to share a birthday with this day.”
Hal Brown Jan 20 --- 2020
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