to make clear that i'm speaking on my own behalf and not representing the views of yale university school of medicine or yale department of psychiatry to answer your question we are a group of mental health experts who have come to a consensus conclusion about an issue that is of vital interest to the public. and the public has a right to know basically that mr trump in the office of the presidency is a danger to the public and the international community according to a study by experts at the duke university medical center body around one in four u.s. presidents who have some sort of mental illness while in office why is trump so special and so different to merit this particular book which calls him a danger mental illness itself does not. involve. unfitness for duty an incapacity to carry out a duty it's really the specific symptoms the severity of the symptoms and the particular combination of impulsivity recklessness. an inability to accept facts rage reactions an attraction to violence are prone to incite violence all these things are signs of danger but to your contribution to this book on park

to make clear that i'm speaking on my own behalf and not representing the views of yale university school of medicine or yale department of psychiatry to answer your question we are a group of mental health experts who have come to a consensus conclusion about an issue that is of vital interest to the public. and the public has a right to know basically that mr trump in the office of the presidency is a danger to the public and the international community according to a study by experts at the duke university medical center about it around one in four u.s. presidents have had some sort of mental illness while in office why is trump so special and so different to merit this particular book which calls him a danger mental illness itself does not. involved. unfitness for duty an incapacity to carry out a duty it's really the specific symptoms the severity of the symptoms and the particular combination of impulsivity recklessness. an inability to accept facts rage reactions an attraction to violence are prone to incite violence all these things are signs of danger but are your contribution to this book u

that i am speaking on my own behalf and not representing the views of my institutions yale university school of medicine or yale department of psychiatry now to answer your question as for the diagnosis no all authors were asked to keep with what is called the goldwater rule which prohibits mental health expert from making a diagnosis of a public figure without having examined them personally and have gotten their consent to do so what we are doing here is assessing dangerousness dangerousness is different from diagnosis you don't need to have all the information to be able to assess dangerousness. it is about the situation rather than the individual it is about basically. the person and the influence they have and the access to weapons that they have and we have while we're not making a diagnosis we all agree that we have seen enough to be very concerned that the person appointed to protect the health and safety of the public is actually a threat to those things ok so as you say you can't make an official diagnosis because presumably none of you have had a face to face meeting with president trump to b