Psychiatrists' Analysis of Politician's Mental Health

The Ethics of Public Commentary
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-95706-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

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. This book reviews the legitimate methods of psychiatric and psychological evaluations, abuses of psychiatry, ethical perspectives on publicly voicing opinions regarding public figures, and proposes an alternative assumption model for mental health professionals to render a public opinion. It is a great resource for practicing psychologists and psychiatrists to reflect on their own processes when examining the mental health of politicians.

Students and trainees in the mental health sector will come away from the book with a better understanding of the ethical concerns inherent in commenting publicly on public officials’ mental health, and they'll find valuable guidance on how to do so in an ethical way.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rasmussen, Keith

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Forschungsmethoden
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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?

Über Autor(innen)

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.