35 psychiatrists met at Yale to warn Donald Trump has a 'dangerous mental illness'


Donald Trump has a “dangerous mental illness” and is not fit to lead the US, a group of psychiatrists has warned during a conference at Yale University.

According to The Independent, Mental health experts claimed the President was “paranoid and delusional”, and said it was their “ethical responsibility” to warn the American public about the “dangers” Mr Trump’s psychological state poses to the country.



Speaking at the conference at Yale’s School of Medicine on Thursday, one of the mental health professionals, Dr John Gartner, a practising psychotherapist who advised psychiatric residents at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, said: “We have an ethical responsibility to warn the public about Donald Trump's dangerous mental illness.”

The group of mental health experts has drawn criticism from both sides of the political aisle, along with others from within the psychology field, for violating the American Psychiatric Association's "Goldwater rule," which says no mental health professional should attempt to diagnose or give professional opinions on someone without having personally examined them.


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"Worse than just being a liar or a narcissist, in addition, he is paranoid, delusional and grandiose thinking and he proved that to the country the first day he was President. If Donald Trump really believes he had the largest crowd size in history, that's delusional," said Dr. Gartner, who is also a founder of Duty to Warn, an organization of mental health professionals who feel Trump is unfit to be president.

During the conference, Psychiatrist and New York University professor James Gilligan said based on his experience working with "murderers and rapists" he can "recognize dangerousness from a mile away."

"You don't have to be an expert on dangerousness or spend fifty years studying it like I have in order to know how dangerous this man is," said Gillian.

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Earlier in the year, Dr. Gartner created an online petition calling for mental health professionals to "declare Trump is mentally ill and must be removed." The change.org petition currently has 8,065 signatures.

Connecticut Republican Party Chairman J.R. Romano responded to the convention calling Trump mentally ill by saying, "This is a sad day. These so called professionals have thrown ethical standards out the window because they cannot accept the election results."

In response to criticism over his long-distance diagnosis of President Trump, Dr. Gartner said: "This notion that you need to personally interview someone to form a diagnosis actually doesn't make a whole lotta sense."

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"For one thing, research shows that the psychiatric interview is the least statistical reliable way to make a diagnosis."

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