一位精神病学教授声称唐纳德·特朗普总统智力受损，以至于他不能抽象地思考，只能以一维的方式看待事物。
心理学和精神病学领域的几位专家表达了对特朗普精神健康的担忧。一些人认为，鉴于美国总统职位的全球重要性和办公室的权力，这样做很重要，但批评人士表示，没有面对面的讨论，你无法做出正确的评估或诊断。
“特朗普在任何问题上都没有政策，因为他的精神障碍意味着他无法进行战略性或抽象的思考，”推特约翰·塔尔马奇医学博士，美国西南医学中心的内科医生和精神病学临床教授。
“他无法权衡选择、评估风险或预见后果。公平、正义、荣誉和正直等概念实际上并不适用。你可以在每次采访或新闻发布会上看到这一点。他从不陈述抽象的思想或想法。
“相反，他依赖简单的形容词:可耻的、可怕的、低智商的、完美的、无辜的、肮脏的、愚蠢的、假冒的等等。他被消极情绪所驱使，经常是偏执的，经常是侮辱性的，粗俗的，尖酸刻薄的。”
德克萨斯大学西南分校表示塔尔玛奇是以个人身份发言的。
塔尔马奇写道，特朗普用“幼稚的形容词”用“肤浅的语调”表达积极的态度，并且在讨论计划或项目时不具体。
“这是很清楚的意思。特朗普没有愿景或计划，因为他只能用具体的、基本的、童心未泯的一维术语来思考。塔尔马奇写道:“他不处理像美国军队稳定具有地缘政治影响的多边冲突这样抽象的想法。
“这种通快式的大脑故障对于正常人来说很难理解，因为对于正常人来说，抽象思维是自然的，被灌输的，很大程度上没有被注意到。正常人大部分时间都会看到后果，评估风险，做出理性的决定。
“今天的事实是特朗普不正常，特朗普精神受损，特朗普无法正常思考，特朗普很危险。当他被免职时，他真的不会明白发生了什么。他将不得不编造一个故事，说谎，并咆哮希拉里的域名服务器。”
十月初，哈佛大学心理学教授丹尼尔·吉尔伯特(Daniel Gilbert)建议特朗普应该被非自愿拘留，以评估他的精神健康状况。
此前特朗普发了一条推文，声称他将“彻底摧毁和抹杀土耳其的经济”(我以前做过！)”如果土耳其做了任何“以我伟大而无与伦比的智慧，我认为是禁区”的事
“我是唯一一个发现这种说法和这种威胁真的令人担忧的心理学家吗？这些通常不会引发精神健康问题吗？吉尔伯特在推特上写道:“右翼和左翼必须抛开政治，同意这里存在严重问题。”。
去年，耶鲁精神病学家班迪·李告诉记者新闻周刊那个a特朗普家族的老朋友带着担忧走近她关于总统的幸福。她还说，政府的两名官员也这样做了。
李在《对话》的一篇文章中写道，特朗普表现出“反映情感冲动、冲动、注意力不集中、自恋和鲁莽的心理症状”
在最近的一篇文章中大西洋乔治·康威是一名律师，也是前共和党人，他与白宫高级顾问凯莱恩·康威结婚，他详细阐述了特朗普精神上不适合担任他的职务的证据。
康威写道:“简而言之，特朗普根深蒂固的极端行为特征使得他不可能按照宪法要求的方式履行总统职责。”。
“问题是他是否有可能成为国家最高公共信任的公共受托人……鉴于特朗普表现出病态自恋者、反社会者或恶性自恋者的极端行为特征——随你挑——很明显他不能。”
唐纳德·特朗普总统于2019年10月23日在宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡大卫·劳伦斯会议中心举行的第九届页岩洞察会议上发表讲话。一位精神病学教授质疑特朗普的精神健康状况。
TRUMP'S 'MENTAL IMPAIRMENT MEANS HE CANNOT THINK STRATEGICALLY OR IN ABSTRACT TERMS,' CLAIMS PROFESSOR OF PSYCHIATRY
A psychiatry professor claimed President Donald Trump is so mentally impaired that he cannot think in abstract terms and can only view things in a one-dimensional way.
Several experts in the areas of psychology and psychiatry have voiced concerns about Trump's mental well-being. While some argue that it is important to do so given the global importance of the U.S. presidency and the power wielded by the office, critics say you cannot make a proper assessment or diagnosis without a face-to-face session.
"Trump has no policy on any issue because his mental impairment means he cannot think strategically or in abstract terms," tweetedJohn M. Talmadge, MD, a physician and clinical professor of psychiatry at U.T. Southwestern Medical Center.
"He cannot weigh options, assess risk, or foresee consequences. Concepts like fairness, justice, honor, and integrity quite literally do not register. You can see this in every interview or press encounter. He never states an abstract thought or idea.
"Instead he falls back on simple adjectives: disgraceful, horrible, low-intelligence, perfect, innocent, nasty, stupid, fake, etc. He's driven by negative emotion, often paranoid and often insulting, vulgar, vitriolic."
UT Southwestern said Talmadge was speaking in a personal capacity.
Talmadge wrote that Trump expresses positivity in a "shallow tone" using "childish adjectives" and is non-specific when discussing plans or projects.
"The meaning of this is clear. Trump does not have a vision or a plan, because he can think only in concrete, elementary, childlike, one dimensional terms. He does not process an abstract idea like American forces stabilizing a multilateral conflict with geopolitical implications," Talmadge wrote.
"This Trumpian brain failure is hard for normal people to understand because for normal people, abstract thought is natural, baked in, largely unnoticed. Normal people see the consequences, assess risk, make rational decisions most of the time.
"What is true today is that Trump is not normal, Trump is mentally impaired, Trump cannot think normally, and Trump is dangerous. When he is removed from office he literally will not understand what happened. He will have to make up a story, tell lies, and rant about Hillary's DNC server."
Earlier in October, Daniel Gilbert, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, suggested that Trump should be detained involuntarily to assess his mental health.
It followed a tweet by Trump in which he claimed he would "totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I've done before!)" if Turkey did anything that "I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits."
"Am I the only psychologist who finds this claim and this threat truly alarming? Wouldn't these normally trigger a mental health hold? Right and Left must set aside politics and agree that there is a serious problem here," Gilbert wrote on Twitter.
Last year, Bandy Lee, a Yale psychiatrist, told Newsweek that a longtime Trump family friend approached her with concerns about the president's well-being. She also said two officials from the administration did the same.
Lee wrote in a piece for The Conversation that Trump displayed "psychological symptoms reflective of emotional compulsion, impulsivity, poor concentration, narcissism and recklessness."
In a recent article for The Atlantic, George Conway, an attorney and former Republican who is married to senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, detailed at length the evidence that Trump is mentally unfit to hold his office.
"Simply put, Trump's ingrained and extreme behavioral characteristics make it impossible for him to carry out the duties of the presidency in the way the Constitution requires," Conway wrote.
"The question is whether he can possibly act as a public fiduciary for the nation's highest public trust… Given that Trump displays the extreme behavioral characteristics of a pathological narcissist, a sociopath, or a malignant narcissist—take your pick—it's clear that he can't."
President Donald Trump speaks during the 9th Shale Insight Conference at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center on October 23, 2019, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A professor of psychiatry called into question Trump's mental fitness.
