The Goldwater rule prevents psychiatrists diagnosing Trump from afar but some say there's too much at stake
- Written by Chris Rudge, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Sydney
In the late 19th century, Sigmund Freud’s colleague Wilhelm Fleiss successfully diagnosed an illness in one of Freud’s relatives, without even having met them. Freud was so impressed by Fleiss’s “diagnostic acumen” that he went on to advocate the method in certain circumstances.
Freud would write that diagnosing...
