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Psychiatrists' Analysis of Politicians' Mental Health: The Ethics of Public Commentary book cover

1st Edition

Psychiatrists' Analysis of Politicians' Mental Health The Ethics of Public Commentary

By Keith Rasmussen Copyright 2026
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge
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This book discusses the validity, ethics, and usefulness of professional public commentary of politician’s mental health and provides an alternative model for professionals to do so in an ethical manner. Rendering public opinions about politician’s mental health, particularly when the professional has not conducted a first-hand assessment of the individual, can be problematic and unethical.... Read more

Part I: Psychiatry: Use, Misuse, and the Ethics of Public Commentary

Chapter 1: The Use of Psychiatry

Chapter 2: The Misuse of Psychiatry

Chapter 3: The Ethics of Public Commentary and a Sequential Assumption Model

Part II: Examples from History and the Recent Past

Chapter 4: Three Kings

Chapter 5: Psychoanalytic Speculations in Public Commentary – The Books of Dr. Justin Frank

Chapter 6: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Attempt to Assess President Donald J. Trump Publicly Without Having Met Him: Ethical or Unethical?

Biography

Keith G. Rasmussen is a consultant at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He is also a professor of psychiatry at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.

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