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"Charismatic" and "Archetypal" Leaders, their groups, and crowds - Psychiatry and Political Science review

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Trump as "Charismatic" Leader >historical roots

Hillary Clinton as "Archetypal" Leader >historical roots

M.N.: 
Hillary is the archetypal image  of the Mother and the Grandmother to the Nation and to the World. And maybe, this is is exactly what we need in our trying times: the healing and understanding of the feminine influences in the national and world politics. 
Hillary's general health is very good, it is evident from all the sources of information. 

(?)We all can be overcome with emotions, and her feeling ill on 9/11/2016, 
just underlines the humane part in her character.

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As a psychiatrist, I diagnose mental illness. Also, I help spot demonic ... - Washington Post
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As a psychiatrist, I diagnose mental illness. Also, I help spot demonic ...
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In the late 1980s, I was introduced to a self-styled Satanic high priestess. She called herself a witch and dressed the part, with flowing dark clothes and black eye ...

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The American Psychiatric Association issues a warning: No psychoanalyzing Donald Trump - Washington Post
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The American Psychiatric Association issues a warning: No psychoanalyzing Donald Trump
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Donald Trump had a very bad week — so bad that some were asking whether something was wrong with him. Like, really wrong. "We're asking ourselves — I didn't say this, but this is what everybody is saying: Is Donald Trump a sociopath?" MSNBC host Joe ...
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Terror Case Highlights Mental-Health Issues Among Suspected ISIS Recruits - Wall Street Journal
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Terror Case Highlights Mental-Health Issues Among Suspected ISIS Recruits
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A federal judge in Kansas is set to decide whether a man with developmental disabilities should go to prison for lending $100 to somebody he believed was planning to attack U.S. soldiers on behalf of Islamic State, a case that highlights the growing ...

'They can't come in here and do that to my country': Meet the kids most affected by 9/11 - PennLive.com
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'They can't come in here and do that to my country': Meet the kids most affected by 9/11
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While heroes emerged from the rubble in New York and Washington, D.C., and a group of brave passengers turned "Let's roll" into a national mantra after bringing down a hijacked plane in Shanksville, these children watched and were affected in different ...

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Most Americans do not understand the Donald Trump phenomenon. How could someone who says what he has said win the Republican nomination? How can ...

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Left and liberal circles rightly see Donald Trump as a fascist who will stop at nothing, will have no scruples of any sort, will resort to any kind of untruth, to create animosity among the white majority in the United States of America towards ...
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Alexei Bayer: New York origins of the Trump phenomenon - Kyiv Post
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Alexei Bayer: New York origins of the Trump phenomenon
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Much has been written about the complicity of the Republican Party in the creation of Dr. Frankenstein's monster that is Donald Trump. The Republicans' obstructionism in Congress, constant hate-mongering, implicit racism of their across-the-boards ...

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A Resurgence Of 'Redneck' Pride, Marked By Race, Class And ... - NPR
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The media have used a variety of epithets to describe white working-class Trump supporters. Linguist Geoff Nunberg says these terms embody the class ...

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Trump's Middle-Class Army | Jacobin - Jacobin magazine
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Certainly a number of contingent factors helped propel him to the top of the Republican ticket: the GOP establishment failed to correctly grasp the mood of the ...

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Part of the Trump phenomenon derives from fame -- reality-TV sizzle (“You're fired!”) ... a kind of low-brow celebrity for which former President Ronald Reagan was once derided. The comparisons crop up frequently, even though Trump supporters can't ...
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Do Ideas Still Matter in the Year of Trump (and Clinton)? - POLITICO Magazine
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You could argue the Trump phenomenon is partly about immigration and globalization, which is true in the sense that The Celebrity Apprentice was partly about issues in the workplace. But it's missing the point of the spectacle. The Trump phenomenon is ...

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People often wonder where the Donald Trump phenomenon really came from. Pat Buchanan is a pretty good place to start. Buchanan, a former adviser to Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, became a broadcast celebrity and then a Republican ...

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Hillary Clinton's charisma deficit is a common problem for female leaders - Quartz
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Hillary Clinton may be, in the words of Barack Obama, the “most qualified candidate” to ever to seek the presidency, but it's now commonplace to suggest her leadership leaves something wanting. The Guardian notes that she “lacks authenticity and the ...

Are charismatic people better leaders? - TODAYonline
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Are charismatic people better leaders?
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Charisma doesn't necessarily define success as a leader. Leadership is a mixture of traits: ability to inspire, to delegate, to communicate and most importantly, to persevere when things go wrong. To bring everyone back to everything that we are doing ...

Psychiatrists Reminded To Refrain From Armchair Analysis Of Public Figures - WBEZ
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Psychiatrists Reminded To Refrain From Armchair Analysis Of Public Figures
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But many also feel that even in the absence of a diagnosis, the more general psychological interpretations common to cable news and other media outlets — not under the rubric of theGoldwater Rule, psychologists show up with exceptional frequency as ...

Opinion: Donald Trump is crazy, but (probably) not insane - LA Times - Los Angeles Times
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Opinion: Donald Trump is crazy, but (probably) not insane - LA Times
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Good morning. I'm Paul Thornton, The Times' letters editor, and it is Saturday. Happy Independence Day, Moldova. Here's a look back at the week in Opinion.
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Penn medical ethicists are concerned about conspiracies on Clinton's health - The Daily Pennsylvanian
Monday September 12th, 2016 at 11:54 AM

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Penn medical ethicists are concerned about conspiracies on Clinton's health
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For the majority of physicians, there are no legal consequences for giving such diagnoses of patients. However ... The Goldwater Rule was implemented soon thereafter, which forbids psychiatrists from speculating about the mental health of public figures.

The Psychiatric Question: Is It Fair to Analyze Donald Trump From ... - New York Times
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The Psychiatric Question: Is It Fair to Analyze Donald Trump From ...
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The American Psychiatric Association says such an assessment would be unethical. But many in the profession, arguing that this election is too important, are ...
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What We Actually Know About Hillary Clinton's and Donald Trump's Health - Fortune
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Back in 1973, the APA adopted the “Goldwater rule,” named after 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater, which prohibits psychiatrists from offering opinions on people they have not personally evaluated, as the New York Times explains.
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A professional opinion: You don't need a psychiatrist to know there's something wrong with Donald Trump - Los Angeles Times
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A professional opinion: You don't need a psychiatrist to know there's something wrong with Donald Trump
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The fact that so many psychiatrists were willing to casually diagnose a person they'd never met embarrassed the profession and led to the codification of the so-called Goldwater Rule — no professional opinions on people we have not personally examined.

[Audio] Dr. Michael Bordieri on Public Diagnoses of Presidential Candidates - WKMS
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On Sounds Good, MSU psychology professor Dr. Michael Bordieri and Tracy Ross discuss theGoldwater Rule, which largely prohibits mental health professionals from publicly diagnosing presidential candidates.

Deconstructing and Reconstructing the “Goldwater Rule” - Psychiatric Times (blog)
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Deconstructing and Reconstructing the “Goldwater Rule”
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On the face of it, the statement by Dr Maria A. Oquendo, President of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), could not have been clearer: “. . . Simply put, breaking the Goldwater Rule is irresponsible, potentially stigmatizing, and definitely ...

The Real Story Behind the Goldwater Rule - Huffington Post
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The Real Story Behind the Goldwater Rule
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This embarrassing incident led to the now-famous Goldwater Rule, which bars psychiatrists from diagnosing public figures long-distance. Yet in this election cycle physicians are commenting on what they regard as one of the candidate's medical problems ...

If You Can't Beat 'Em, Diagnose 'Em - WNYC
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If You Can't Beat 'Em, Diagnose 'Em
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The latter is cause for concern for many clinicians, as it flies in the face of the American Psychiatric Association's 40-year-old Goldwater Rule, which forbids psychiatrists from offering opinions on a person they have not personally evaluated ...
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STAWAR: Is the Goldwater Rule made to be broken? - Evening News and Tribune
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STAWAR: Is the Goldwater Rule made to be broken?
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The Goldwater Rule, however, is not law, nor is it a requirement for other mental health professionals, such as psychologists. Some professionals believe they can abide by the letter of the Goldwater Rule by simply not making a diagnosis, even if they ...

Trump Blackmailed by Putin, According to Former CIA Agent
Sunday September 11th, 2016 at 10:41 PM

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Evan McMullin believes that America should be much more worried about presidential candidate Donald Trump's close ties to Vladimir Putin.
The former CIA agent and former Republican is so concerned about Trump's ties to Putin that he entered the 2016 presidential election as an Independent candidate in July in an eleventh-hour bid to bring some attention to the issue.
In an interview this week with CNN, McMullin asserts that his friends in intelligence have told him that Trump's previous business activities in Russia could have implications that jeopardize his candidacy.
"Donald Trump is dependent on Russian investments from Russian oligarchs associated with Vladimir Putin for his real estate development projects."
The potential for exposure by Putin puts the strong-arm Russian president in a position to coerce Trump into appointing Russia-favoring advisors and, should he win, implementing Russia-favoring policies as president.
"Vladimir Putin is one of the primary sources of instability in this world, and the thought that we would have a Republican nominee so 'in bed' with Putin, I think is so discouraging and really a bad thing for our country," McMullin said.
Since the Commander-In-Chief forum, McMullin has been even more critical about the constant praise Trump offers Putin, pointing out how unfortunate it is that we, as a country, have to debate on whether or not it's a good thing that a major party candidate is so fond of Putin.
"He is opposed to democracy, opposed to freedom, and opposed to our interests," McMullin said of the Russian leader.
McMullin believes that some of the appointments Trump has made to his staff support his claims. Paul Manafort, who was once Trump's campaign manager, was forced to resign from his position after his ties with a former Pro-Russian president of Ukraine became public knowledge.
He says other key members of Trump's staff have financial ties to Russia, including retired General Michael Flynn, who is also employed as an analyst by RT America. RT is a Russian cable network owned by the Russian government.
Trump actually invited Flynn, an employee of a Russian government-owned business, to join him at his intelligence briefing last week.
"An American president should never have these kinds of warm views of a Russian authoritarian like Vladimir Putin," McMullin said.

Evan McMullin: former CIA agent, former Republican, and the fifth U.S. presidential candidate.
McMullin is not the only former intelligence officer to suggest that Trump is being used by Putin.
"In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation," wrote Former CIA deputy director Michael Morell in a New York Times op-ed on August 5.
"He [Trump] may well pose a threat to our national security."
CIA officers are not known for liberal leanings. When men like McMullin and Morell question the reliability and loyalty of a major presidential candidate, it might be time for America to listen.
Evan McMullin is now either on the ballot or approved as a write-in in 20 U.S. States.
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Hillary Clinton leaves 9/11 ceremony after 'feeling overheated'by Alan Yuhas and Joanna Walters in New York
Sunday September 11th, 2016 at 12:06 PM

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  • Campaign spokesman says Clinton is ‘feeling much better’
Hillary Clinton left the 9/11 memorial ceremony in downtown Manhattan early on Sunday because she “felt overheated”, a campaign spokesperson said, after the Democratic presidential nominee left the anniversary ceremony in downtown New York.
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Fifteen Years Since 9/11: The Foreign Policy Impact
Sunday September 11th, 2016 at 11:29 AM

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Since 9/11, America’s standing in the world has fallen to dangerously low levels, with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan contributing significantly to this decline. On the 15th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, Cato looks back at the legacy of 9/11 on U.S. foreign policy, and offers much-needed debate over our country’s global choices.
      

Op-Ed Contributor: Anti-Semitism and the British Leftby DAVE RICH
Sunday September 11th, 2016 at 9:47 AM

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Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party has alienated Britain’s Jews.

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Redefining Mental Illness - NYTimes.com: "This is a radically different vision of severe mental illness from the one held by most Americans, and indeed many American psychiatrists... Diagnoses were neither particularly useful nor accurate for understanding the brain... The rethinking comes at a time of disconcerting awareness that mental health problems are far more pervasive than we might have imagined... There is much we still do not know about mental illness, and much we can do to improve its care."



Redefining Mental Illness - NYTimes.com
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TWO months ago, the British Psychological Society released a remarkable document entitled“Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia.” Its authors say that hearing voices and feeling paranoid are common experiences, and are often a reaction to trauma, abuse or deprivation: “Calling them symptoms of mental illness, psychosis or schizophrenia is only one way of thinking about them, with advantages and disadvantages.”
The report says that there is no strict dividing line between psychosis and normal experience: “Some people find it useful to think of themselves as having an illness. Others prefer to think of their problems as, for example, an aspect of their personality which sometimes gets them into trouble but which they would not want to be without.”
The report adds that antipsychotic medications are sometimes helpful, but that “there is no evidence that it corrects an underlying biological abnormality.” It then warns about the risk of taking these drugs for years.
And the report says that it is “vital” that those who suffer with distressing symptoms be given an opportunity to “talk in detail about their experiences and to make sense of what has happened to them” — and points out that mental health services rarely make such opportunities available.
This is a radically different vision of severe mental illness from the one held by most Americans, and indeed many American psychiatrists. Americans think of schizophrenia as a brain disorder that can be treated only with medication. Yet there is plenty of scientific evidence for the report’s claims.
Moreover, the perspective is surprisingly consonant — in some ways — with the new approach by our own National Institute of Mental Health, which funds much of the research on mental illness in this country. For decades, American psychiatric science took diagnosis to be fundamental. These categories — depression, schizophrenia, post-traumatic stress disorder — were assumed to represent biologically distinct diseases, and the goal of the research was to figure out the biology of the disease.
That didn’t pan out. In 2013, the institute’s director, Thomas R. Insel, announced that psychiatric science had failed to find unique biological mechanisms associated with specific diagnoses. What genetic underpinnings or neural circuits they had identified were mostly common across diagnostic groups. Diagnoses were neither particularly useful nor accurate for understanding the brain, and would no longer be used to guide research.
And so the institute has begun one of the most interesting and radical experiments in scientific research in years. It jettisoned a decades-long tradition of diagnosis-driven research, in which a scientist became, for example, a schizophrenia researcher. Under a program called Research Domain Criteria, all research must begin from a matrix of neuroscientific structures (genes, cells, circuits) that cut across behavioral, cognitive and social domains (acute fear, loss, arousal). To use an example from the program’s website, psychiatric researchers will no longer study people with anxiety; they will study fear circuitry.
Our current diagnostic system — the main achievement of the biomedical revolution in psychiatry — drew a sharp , clear line between those who were sick and those who were well, and that line was determined by science. The system started with the behavior of persons, and sorted them into types. That approach sank deep roots into our culture, possibly because sorting ourselves into different kinds of people comes naturally to us.
The institute is rejecting this system because it does not lead to useful research. It is starting afresh, with a focus on how the brain and its trillions of synaptic connections work. The British Psychological Society rejects the centrality of diagnosis for seemingly quite different reasons — among them, because defining people by a devastating label may not help them.
Both approaches recognize that mental illnesses are complex individual responses — less like hypothyroidism, in which you fall ill because your body does not secrete enough thyroid hormone, and more like metabolic syndrome, in which a collection of unrelated risk factors (high blood pressure, body fat around the waist) increases your chance of heart disease.
The implications are that social experience plays a significant role in who becomes mentally ill, when they fall ill and how their illness unfolds. We should view illness as caused not only by brain deficits but also by abuse, deprivation and inequality, which alter the way brains behave. Illness thus requires social interventions, not just pharmacological ones.
ONE outcome of this rethinking could be that talk therapy will regain some of the importance it lost when the new diagnostic system was young. And we know how to do talk therapy. That doesn’t rule out medication: while there may be problems with the long-term use of antipsychotics, many people find them useful when their symptoms are severe.
The rethinking comes at a time of disconcerting awareness that mental health problems are far more pervasive than we might have imagined. The World Health Organization estimates that one in four people will have an episode of mental illness in their lifetime. Mental and behavioral problems are the biggest single cause of disability on the planet. But in low- and middle-income countries, about four of five of those disabled by the illnesses do not receive treatment for them.
When the United Nations sets its new Sustainable Development Goals this spring, it should include mental illness, along with diseases like AIDS and malaria, as scourges to be combated. There is much we still do not know about mental illness, and much we can do to improve its care. But we know enough to do something, and to accept that knowing more and doing more should be a fundamental commitment.
Correction: January 25, 2015
An opinion article about mental illness last Sunday incorrectly referred to a group that recently issued a report on schizophrenia. It is the British Psychological Society, not the British Psychological Association.
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Diagnosis: The View of the Psychiatric Association
Tuesday January 27th, 2015 at 1:55 PM

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Re “Redefining Mental Illness,” by T. M. Luhrmann (Op-Ed, Jan. 18):
While many experiences — such as hearing voices — can occur without illness, a psychiatric diagnosis is more than a single symptom. The clustering of many symptoms together when combined with persistent distress and functional impairment is required for any consideration of a mental disorder.
Such approaches have been central to clinical medicine for centuries and are a precursor to the scientific understanding of the causes and mechanisms of disease, not an end in themselves.
Ms. Luhrmann notes approvingly that the National Institute of Mental Health, in beginning a program called Research Domain Criteria, determined that existing psychiatric diagnoses “were neither particularly useful nor accurate for understanding the brain, and would no longer be used to guide research.”
However, she does not mention a joint statement by the institute’s director, Dr. Tom Insel, and the former president of the American Psychiatric Association, Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, which explained: “All medical disciplines advance through research progress in characterizing diseases and disorders. DSM-5 and RDoC [Research Domain Criteria] represent complementary, not competing, frameworks for this goal.” Precisely.
Psychiatric disorders are among the most common and disabling of medical conditions. Because they affect those functions that are most uniquely human, we owe both the best science and respectful listening to our patients.
PAUL SUMMERGRAD
Boston, Jan. 21, 2015
The writer is president of the American Psychiatric Association and chairman of the psychiatry department at Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts Medical Center.
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