Click Here to Read: Why Talking Is Still The Best Way To Find A Psychotherapist by Todd Essig on the Forbes website on July 29, 2017.
Psychologists in C.I.A. Interrogations Can Face Trial, Judge Rules
The Goldwater rule: why commenting on mental health from a distance is unhelpful
Click Here to Read: The Goldwater rule: why commenting on mental health from a distance is unhelpful: Is it okay to speculatively diagnose public figures like Trump? No, says the Goldwater rule – and recent challenges to it could set worrying precedents by Nick Davis on the Guardian website on July 28, 2017.
Psychologists once claimed that United States Senator and nominee for president, Barry Goldwater, was psychologically unfit to be president. Photograph: William Lovelace/Getty Images
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‘Goldwater Rule’ Still In Place Barring Many Psychiatrists From Commenting On Trump
Click Here to Read: ‘Goldwater Rule’ Still In Place Barring Many Psychiatrists From Commenting On Trump on the NPR website on July 25, 2017.
“The Goldwater Rule” was implemented in 1973, preventing psychiatrists from making armchair diagnoses, after Barry Goldwater, the Republican nominee for president, successfully sued a magazine that published an article doubting his sanity.
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Top Interior Dem Calls for Investigation Into Trump’s “Political Blackmail” of Senator Murkowski
Islamic civilisation and its discontents: In his new book, recently published in German as “Der Übermuslim”
Click Here to Read: Islamic civilisation and its discontents: In his new book, recently published in German as “Der Übermuslim” (The Super-Muslim), the French-Tunisian psychoanalyst Fethi Benslama explores what drives young people to become radicalised. He concludes that they seek meaning, stability, orientation and identity in radical Islamism By Herbert Csef on the qantara.de website on July 28, 2017