My response to: We must not confuse Trump's bad behavior with mental illness by Allen Frances
http://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2017/08/25/allen-frances-we-must-not-confuse-trumps-bad-behavior-with-mental-illness The title is somewhat misleading because in general mental health professionals are not suggesting that Trump suffers a mental illness, as it is commonly understood. They are suggesting that he does indeed meet the diagnostic criteria for narcissistic personality disorder and that he may well be developing dementia. This is not to use these diagnoses as terms of abuse - they are relevant because they may feed into the legal process whereby it is determined whether or not Trump should be removed from office. Frances' position is absurd. In one paragraph he says that he supports the Goldwater rule and in the next he flouts it. The fact that he does so in order to defend Trump is irrelevant. He is clearly debating the diagnosis of somebody he has never met and adduces various facts in the public domain to support his own thoughts on the subject. I do not support the Goldwater