Trump’s Ongoing Threat to Survival

The desire for survival is not always a given. This is why we recently updated our “Prescriptions for Survival” and issued three major new Prescriptives as mental health professionals committed to the universal health professionals’ pledge, the Declaration of Geneva. In 2017, after holding an Ethics Conference at Yale University School of Medicine, we published what became an unprecedented bestselling book of its kind: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. Our purpose was to meet our professional responsibility to society.

The World Mental Health Coalition, which formed out of these events, rapidly grew to thousands in number and is today the premier mental health organization dealing with dangerous leadership and threats to collective mental health. Throughout 2017 and 2018, we had numerous media appearances and met with many members of Congress. Then in March 2019, we convened a major Interdisciplinary Conference, broadcast in full by C-Span from the Ballroom of the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Subsequently, we have continued to speak out in media appearances, in both public and private settings, in publications, and at universities.

Then came the unforeseen emergency of the global pandemic. Given our initial concern that the then U.S. President was psychologically incapable of reasonably handling such a crisis, we issued our original “Prescription for Survival” during the very first month of the Pandemic, warning: “We have a Presidency that is … making…