In his editorial, “The toxic zeitgeist of hyper-partisanship: A psychiatric perspective” (From the Editor, Current Psychiatry, February 2018, p. 17-18), Dr. Nasrallah notes that he “adheres” to the APA’s Goldwater Rule. The Goldwater Rule and the reason for its creation and current implementation in the United States cannot be fully understood without appreciating the political circumstances that led to its creation in 1964. The conservative movement had been using the slogan “better dead than red” to criticize Democrats who they felt were soft on communism. Unfortunately, some psychiatrists took these words and the views of Arizona senator Barry Goldwater quite literally. They claimed they understood his psychological structure by listening to his political views, and feared that he would risk starting a nuclear war. Of course, no psychiatrist actually examined senator Goldwater. During the 1964 presidential campaign, a television commercial from President Lyndon B. Johnson’s campaign included a mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion with an implicit reference to senator Goldwater and the “better dead than red” slogan. In the end, psychiatry, and particularly psychoanalysis, as well as President Johnson’s campaign, were embarrassed.
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机译：纳斯拉拉博士（Nasrallah）在他的社论“超党派主义的有毒时代精神：一种精神病学观点”（摘自《当前精神病学》，2018年2月，第17-18页）中指出，他“坚持”了APA的金水法则。在不了解导致其在1964年创建的政治环境的情况下，无法完全理解“金水规则”及其在美国的创建和当前实施的原因。保守运动一直在使用口号“比红色更死”来批评民主党。他们觉得对共产主义态度软弱。不幸的是，一些精神病医生从字面上理解了这些话以及亚利桑那州参议员巴里·戈德沃特的观点。他们声称通过听取他的政治观点来了解他的心理结构，并担心他会冒发动核战争的危险。当然，没有任何精神科医生实际检查过参议员戈德沃特。在1964年总统大选期间，林登·B·约翰逊（Lyndon B. Johnson）总统竞选活动的电视广告包含了核爆炸的蘑菇云，隐含了参议员戈德沃特（Goldwater）的口号和“比红色更死”的口号。最后，精神病学，特别是精神分析学，以及约翰逊总统的竞选都感到尴尬。
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