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Bandy Xenobia Lee (born 1970) is an American psychiatrist with Yale University and a specialist in violence prevention programs in prisons and in the community who initiated reforms at New York's Rikers Island prison.

Views on Donald Trump

 

In April 2017 Lee hosted a meeting at Yale University medical school to discuss the mental health of President Donald Trump.[5][6] In an interview with Salon in May 2017 she argued that the subject of the President's mental health amounted to a "state of emergency" as "our survival as a species may be at stake."[7] She also discussed her political views, linking what she sees as increasing inequality in the United States to a deterioration in collective mental health.[7] Later in 2017 she was the editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, a book of essays that examined Trump's mental health[8] and resulted in her receiving thousands of threatening messages by letter, phone and on social media that included death threats.[2]

 

In December 2017 she met 12 members of the United States Congress (11 Democrats, 1 Republican) to give them her opinion on the mental health of Donald Trump in which she reportedly argued that he was "unraveling".[2]

 

Lee's book and her presentation to members of Congress has contributed to the debate about whether the Goldwater rule, the informal name given to the rule of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) that it is unethical for psychiatrists to give a professional opinion about public figures they have not examined, still holds and its precise interpretation.[2][9][10] In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, Jeffrey Lieberman, past president of the APA, argued that while he accepted that Lee and her co-authors were acting in good faith and out of a sense of moral obligation, they were guilty of a "misguided and dangerous morality".[11] Lieberman himself, however, was later reported to have speculated on diagnosing Trump, the very act he accused Lee and colleagues of committing.[12]

 

According to the APA Code of Ethics (Section 7.1), coming before the Goldwater rule, "Psychiatrists are encouraged to serve society by advising and consulting with the executive, legislative, and judiciary branches of the government."[13] Lee and colleagues maintain that it is especially important to abide by professional norms and standards during politically charged times, and that it is dangerous to turn reasonable ethical guidelines such as the Goldwater rule into a gag rule.[14]

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandy_X._Lee