Accusations have been circulating on Twitter that the prominent Yale professor, known for her public diagnosis of President Donald Trump as having a "mental impairment" and who recently met with lawmakers on Capitol Hill to discuss the issue, isn't actually a licensed psychiatrist.

Additionally, her "controlled substance registration for practitioner" license has apparently "lapsed," expiring in February 2017.
In response to Campus Reform's inquiry on the matter, Lee simply stated that "I need only one license," though she has yet to elaborate on precisely which license that is, and, according to the state in which she resides, she allegedly has none.
Without mentioning Lee specifically, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) put out a recent statement in which it condemned the diagnoses of public officials whom psychiatrists have not personally examined, invoking what is commonly referred to as the Goldwater Rule.
"We at the APA call for an end to psychiatrists providing professional opinions in the media about public figures whom they have not examined, whether it be on cable news appearances, books, or in social media," the statement read, according to The Washington Examiner.
"Arm-chair psychiatry or the use of psychiatry as a political tool is the misuse of psychiatry and is unacceptable and unethical," the APA concluded.
Lee and a colleague, however, responded to criticisms in a Wednesday POLITICO piece, in which they claim that "it's perfectly OK to question the president's mental state," since they are "psychiatrists."





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