Live Session with Dr. Lee
Tomorrow, June 15, 2024, at 2 p.m. EDT!
Announcement:
Dr. Bandy X. Lee will be holding a live session of “What Would You Put in a Risk Assessment?” on Saturday, June 15, 2024, at 2 p.m. EDT/11 a.m. PDT on Zoom. Please subscribe to receive further announcements one hour before the session. Thank you!
Dr. Lee is a forensic psychiatrist, social psychiatrist, and expert on violence who, since 2017, has endeavored to warn the American public of the societal dangers that would result from someone so mentally-impaired as Donald Trump being given the most powerful position of the land. At this unprecedented time in history, when a former U.S. president has now been convicted of thirty-four felonies, the greatest luminaries of psychiatry have come together to form a panel in order to give their input on his dangerous risk, a little more than four months before the election! And the most dangerous president in U.S. history is running to be president again. The eminent psychiatrists’ recommendations will be submitted to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, along with a press release and opinion articles prior to his sentencing. We would love to get your input: what would you put in the risk assessment? What do you think we could do to help stop this dangerous and unfit former president? Please join us to let us know!
I subscribe to Dr Lee's newsletter, but I may or may not be able to be present for the zoom call -- family obligations.
If I cannot make it, someone here please introduce this thought:
In 2016-7, Dr Lee, understanding the threat Trump represents, convened her conference of experts and published her book. She did her best, and, slowly, the concept of a 'malignant narcissist sociopath' has justly entered standard discourse about Trump. She was professionally abused for this -- also, I think, unjustly.
But in the past few months -- I noted this years ago; I am a physician -- it is evident that Trump has a significant dementing illness, an organic brain syndrome. This of course is superimposed on, and distinguishable from, his personality-disorder, his ignorance, and his stupidity. Whether his dementia is Lewy Body, FTD, vascular/lacunar, or ordinary Alzheimer's, I don't know. I am not a neurologist.
I would like to suggest to Dr Lee that a panel --a few dozen, ideally-- of qualified, experienced, practicing neurologists and MD/PhD neuropsychologists be convened to study his filmed public appearances, rally speeches, and published tweets. They should then meet, and deliver an observation-based diagnosis of his dementia.
Most of what a neurologist and psychologist works with is observation. Psychometric testing can (and should) confirm or disconfirm those observations, of course. But experienced neurologists can (and should) weigh in on what is plain, videotaped, and in front of us all. As observers have noted: 'The Trump we see today is the best we will ever see. He will never be better than he is right now.'
An expert like Dr Lee warned the world.
An expert like Timothy Snyder warned the world.
Neurologist/Neuropsychologist experts must warn the world.
If the world survives (which, by the way, I doubt) there should at least be a record that 'someone sounded the alarm.'
I don't have anything to add until I hear what you say. It's difficult to listen to this braying ass just because of what he's done to this country. It's difficult to offer insight when I am not dispassionate.
Look forward to your take. I hope it doesn't get too technical but is very accessible to most Americans.
Thank you. Someone needs to do this.