• Normative Psychological evaluations post (revised)Posted on
• Normative Psychological evaluations post (revised)Posted on: Saturday, October 7, 2017 12:09:50 PM EDT
the post to use for your written assignment due on the 16h. The links to the readings can still be found in the prior announcement.
***Explore an answer to one of the following sets of questions for your next response essay.1. Is the President's mental health a fair subject for debate? If so, by whom? and, to what end (i.e. removal, neuro-psychiatric evaluation by a team of expert
clinicians)? Does this establish a dangerous precedent for public figures (see the Goldwater Rule).? Consider arguments both for and against debating the President's
mental health with a close reading of one of the articles on Trump.
2. Discuss what happens when normative psychological concepts of mental health are used to stymie social progress or, worse, target activists or politically defiant
subjects. Weave your discussion of this topic with a close reading of "In Praise of Defiance." Prof. James L
Posted by: James LampidisPosted to: 2017 Fall Term (1) Writing for Science and Technology ENGL 313 040[50125] (Medgar Evers College)• Normative Psychological evaluations and ....Posted on: Friday, October 6, 2017 11:21:46 PM EDTHello everyone,I forgot (briefly) that we aren't meeting on October 9th because of Columbus Day, and we don't meet again until the next week, Monday October 16th. "Diagnosing Donald Trump, and His Voters: By Masha Gessenhttps://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/diagnosing-donald-trump?mbid=social_facebookIs Donald Trump Mentally Ill? 3 Professors of Psychiatry Ask President Obama To Conduct ‘A Full Medical and Neuropsychiatric Evaluationhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-greene/is-donald-trump-mentally_b_13693174.htmlFinally, read” In Praise of Defiance: by Carrie Arnold which appeared in the Journal Aeon. (Please do a web search) I will post "In Praise of Defiance" under content as well. You are going to write a response to this debate about the debate about Trump's mental stability, psychiatric *medical) ethics and public figures, or normative
judgments of mental health and political resistance in Arnold's essay. Thanks,Prof. James