A Duty To Differentially Diagnose: The Validity Underpinning The Diagnosis Of The President
A DUTY TO DIFFERENTIALLY DIAGNOSE
The Substance Behind the Assertion the President Has a Serious Psychiatric Condition
Vincent Greenwood, Ph.D., Executive Director
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Preface
On January 2, 2020, l was acclimating myself to the office after a ten-day holiday break. I oversee a small psychotherapy practice in Washington D.C. and l was hoping to ease back into the work, to hopefully have one of those days that is absent of any heavy lifting. Alas, l met with two separate clients who were in a great deal of anguish. One expressed herself with a set jaw, biting of her lip, mournful shaking of her head and watery eyes; the other with retching sobs and, at one point, slamming the arm of her chair with her fist.
It’s a therapy office, so displays of intense feeling are not exactly “stop the presses” happenings. But the similarity of the distress of the two women was striking. For each one, turning the calendar year to 2020 was what had shaken them. The advent of the New Year had the identical meaning for each of them: the election year was upon us and the stakes were existential-level profound.
