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There are three overlapping areas of interest that I would like to discuss that are relevant to readers of the Journal:
I: The ethical and moral considerations that permit or prohibit psychiatrists from making statements about public figures they have not personally examined.
II: Examining the President: Acknowledging that some mental health professionals feel it is an ethical and moral obligation to speak up about President Trump’s mental state, what can be said about him?
III: President Trump and the current cultural Zeitgeist: If President Trump is a “mirror” of our country, what is he showing us? How do you think he is shaping public opinion?
Sandberg: You are an international expert on violence and violence prevention. You are the editor and contributor to The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. How did this happen?
Lee: Thank you. My position is slightly anomalous in that, while I am a psychiatrist, I have been involved in violence prevention from a global and public health perspective and have collaborated with specialists of many disciplines, as well as implementers and policymakers. My main role through the World Health Organization has been to help translate and make scholarship accessible to government officials and policymakers. Domestically, I have been advising city and state governments on prison reform and violence prevention programming.
Larry S. Sandberg, M.D., Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College; Lecturer, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.
I teach law students as well as supervising forensic psychiatry fellows on how to do expert consultations across disciplines. The morning after the 2016 elections, I was inundated with phone calls and e-mails from various civil society organizations and individuals who knew about my work and who were concerned about the violence that was to come. My civic responsibility was awakened for their looking to my expertise, but als