On op-ed pages and talk shows, the mental health of the President has been widely discussed, but not by the people who are actually qualified to give an opinion. Jane Mayer attended a meeting of the Washington, D.C., chapter of the American Psychiatric Association, where psychiatrists debated changing the old rule—section 7.3 of their code of ethics, known as “the Goldwater rule”—that prevents them from commenting on the mental health of public figures.
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