Clinical psychologist Dr. Alan Blotcky, Ph.D. spoke to Raw Story Tuesday to walk through what he thinks voters will see from President Donald Trump in the upcoming week ahead of the election.
While Dr. Blotcky isn’t part of the “Duty To Warn” movement, he does support it and he explained how mental health experts have been able to diagnose the president without ever having him sit in their offices.
“The most important information that a mental health professional can get is observable behavior,” he explained. “It’s not just his observable behavior we have access to. We have thousands of examples of his tweets, of his statements, of his interviews, his audios, his videos. So, we have many years of his accumulated information directly from him both verbally and behaviorally. Yes, we don’t get to meet with him in our office in a one-on-one session. And that’s important because that would give us even more information into his thinking and feeling. But having access to vast amounts of verbal statements and behaviors is crucial.” Continue reading.