Saying No to the 'Goldwater Rule'

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 2, 2017

Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., faculty member in the Law and Psychiatry Division of Yale School of Medicine, organizer of the Yale "Duty to Warn" conference and the editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President (Thomas Dunne Books, 2017) argues that the "Goldwater Rule," which blocks the diagnosis from afar of public figures, should not apply to the president.

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