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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm about to blow a gasket over Keith Ablow's "Psycho analysis" of Joe Biden
Note that Fox News, who employs this pathetic excuse for a mental health practitioner, made "psycho analysis" two words. Ablow is not a psychoanalyst. He is a psychiatrist who is abusing the profession. And his horrifying misuse of his professional weight should get his license jerked.
He knows what he's doing. He says Biden showed signs of dementia or drunkenness during the debate. That kind of armchair diagnosis of anyone is unethical, unprofessional and dangerous. And it's, of course, not true. NOTHING in Biden's performance would indicate anything of the kind. I won't much go into differential diagnoses but essentially it means "Well, I guess that's possible though it could be a million other things too, or nothing". But people don't know that.
I could scream. Someone needs to take this idiot off the air before he does us all harm.
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/10/15/1010861/fox-news-psychiatrist-biden-either-has-dementia-or-was-drunk-during-the-debate/
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,719 posts)and is perfectly suited for that nest of lunacy, hate and stupidity that is Faux News. He's preaching to their sick little choir and nobody else gives a damn.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Siwsan
(26,263 posts)Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)They will stop at nothing to marginalize us, to create the image that we are manic or maniac. They will stop at nothing to win this election. We need to stop pretending that the Rethugs are honorable or merely viewing a similar problem with a slightly different point of view. They are the embodiment of evil and it is well and truly past time we admitted it to ourselves.
mnhtnbb
(31,391 posts)He watched the debate. And guess what? He LOVED Joe. And no, he did
not think he showed signs of dementia or drunkenness.
nolabear
(41,984 posts)Joe was happy, aggressive, smart, had a sense of humor and great perspective. I know Ablow is a tool but what an abuse of the profession.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)he was drunk or suffered from dementia, then he sure delivered one hell of a beat-down on the GOP's BEST AND BRIGHTEST BOY WONDER. Guess Boy Wonder ain't so smart after all.
creon
(1,183 posts)What are his credentials?
What does he do for a living?
When did he examine Biden?
marshall
(6,665 posts)Graduated Brown U 1983, B.S. in neurosciences, magna cum laude.
Doctor of Medicine 1987, Johns Hopkins.
Psychiatry residency, Tufts-New England Medical Center.
Assistant Clinical Professor of psychiatry at Tufts.
Board Certified by American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in adult, adolescent, and forensic psychiatry.
Ikonoklast
(23,973 posts)What Ablow does makes it difficult for others in the profession to be seen as ethical players.
He has not examined Biden.
I want to read the written report from the examination which has not taken place.
marshall
(6,665 posts)I'm sure it will turn up inmsomething he writes, whether it is a boo or article, who knows.
creon
(1,183 posts)mercuryblues
(14,532 posts)is that a drunk man with dementia whooped the ass of their smartest candidate.
nenagh
(1,925 posts)Not a lot of people could pull off what Joe Biden did so well....
Well done, Joe..
He effectively diminished Paul Ryan as a contender.... & all those drinks of water? Comedy gold..
siligut
(12,272 posts)Using mental health diagnosis as a method to discredit. I agree, professionals have been held to a higher level of ethics and that is why we trust them. And while it is unfortunate that most people watching Fox will never question Ablow's credibility, that also means your profession's proposed standards are still safe.
andym
(5,443 posts)I doubt that Dr Ablow really believes any of this nonsense.
The only debater that showed signs of dementia was Reagan in 1984, when he couldn't seem to remember anything in the first debate.
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)unreasonable to think that Reagan may have been showing early signs of the onset of Alzheimer's during that debate. I'm not trained in the field, merely an interested layperson, so I offer this up very tnetatively. But I've often wondered whether Reagan by 1984 was already experiencing intermittent dementia.
I actually remember (or think I remember) reading somewhere that Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh had considered indicting Reagan for Iran Contra but, after interviewing him, realized Reagan had dementia and was not criminally culapble. That may be a false memory but it has softened my opinion of Reagan a little bit.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Actually I can hear the entire Obama Administration and his campaign laughing their asses off!
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)Should we not be calling out the licensing entity in his state and/or any professional group he is affiliated with? If he were my careprovider, I would be doing just that and suing his sorry ass.
ancianita
(36,060 posts)The Murdoch Bin Talal Newsfeed uses this pseudo-professional post-debate consensus pile-on to validate bullshit consensus building so SERIOUSLY narrated over the weekend, and what have you got? You've got a house of cards that only the non-degreed are gullible enough to believe.
What I want to know is: Why do you all watch this fake shitand help Faux ratings?!
SalviaBlue
(2,917 posts)I think this is the typical Rovian tactic of accusing your opponent of what is really your own weakness.
Biden is fine; Romney is not.
But they inoculate their viewers to the accusation by making it first (or loudest) so that when a legitimate claim is made it loses its impact.
H2O Man
(73,558 posts)graduated in the bottom 10% of their class. And you, like the rest of us who have experience working in the field, understand that 90+ % of the damage done by the professional community can be attributed to that 10%.
Bucky
(54,013 posts)It's an unethical and shady use of psychiatry, but it's a free country for assholes, too.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)got beat.
By a drunk. By a gaffer. By a delusional old man.
That man, Mr. p90please, if we allow THEM to paint it THEIR way, got his ass whooped right and proper but THEIR own "X".
Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)Unfortunately for them, our "psycho drunken" Vice President kicked the living shit out of Wonder Boy during the debate. So what's Wonder Boy's excuse?
ChoppinBroccoli
(3,784 posts)Yeah, real reputable source there.
MFM008
(19,814 posts)Lucy is a better psych than this mediawhore.
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)Because the symptoms for those are exactly the same, right?
PD Turk
(1,289 posts)But that would be a huge insult to the working girls. Alt least they're honest about what they're doing, but this guy, sheesh.
We're looking at a guy here who has no morals, ethics or guiding principles and will say or do anything for money no matter how deplorable it may be. "First, do no Harm" has absolutely no meaning to this slug.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Jennicut
(25,415 posts)That is the biggest meme with the GOP. I have no idea why they are hung up on Biden always being a drunk. Are they afraid of his effectiveness and ability to reach out to blue collar white voters? And our VP had total command of facts and showed a lot more intelligence then Paul Ryan did.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)He lost his show and ended up on Fox.
What happened to this fucking guy?