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| Therapist says he received threats after calling ‘Trump derangement syndrome' real 'pathology' |
| 2025-11-24 |
| [FoxNews] Jonathan Alpert faced backlash following Wall Street Journal op-ed about patients obsessed with president A Manhattan-based psychotherapist claims he has received dozens of hate messages, including death threats, since speaking publicly about seeing patients in his practice he describes as experiencing "Trump derangement syndrome." Data proving the theorem Jonathan Alpert, author of the forthcoming book "Therapy Nation," said he faced backlash after appearing on Fox News last week to discuss his Nov. 12 Wall Street Journal op-ed about "patients across the political spectrum" who bring up President Donald Trump in therapy sessions "not to discuss policy but to process obsession, rage and dread." Alpert shared with Fox News Digital several messages he said he received via text and email over the past week. "Eat s--- and die you racist fascist piece of s---… f---ing uneducated MAGA scumbag," one message read. "Pedophile protector," another said. "You're a lowlife, worthless fraudulent piece of s--- pedophile who decent people hope is slaughtered, and the video is posted to YouTube," a third message read. And that was from his peers/colleagues... "It’s been intense," Alpert reacted to the messages, in an interview with Fox News Digital. "I expected disagreement, but I didn’t expect the level of hostility, especially from people in the mental health field." "What has stood out is the contradiction," he added. "Many of the people who speak the most about empathy, tolerance and inclusion reacted with the least of it. That reversal tells us something about how emotionally charged politics has become." During a segment on "The Faulkner Focus" on Nov. 14, Alpert said "Trump derangement syndrome" is not just a political insult but a real psychological pattern he has observed in his practice. "This is a profound pathology, and I would even go so far as to call it the defining pathology of our time," he said on-air. "People are obsessed with Trump. They’re hyper-fixated on him. They can’t sleep, they feel restless, they feel traumatized by Mr. Trump." He recalled one patient who said she couldn’t enjoy a vacation because every time she saw Trump on the news or on her phone, she felt "triggered." In his practice, Alpert estimates that about three-quarters of his patients display symptoms of what he calls "TDS." He emphasized, however, that the phrase is not a medical diagnosis and that he sees these reactions among people across the political spectrum. "Trump derangement syndrome is not a diagnosis," he said. "It’s not a way of labeling someone’s political beliefs as a mental illness. People can support or oppose Trump for all kinds of rational reasons. What I’m describing is an emotional pattern, not an ideology. It shows up when someone’s political feelings become so intense and consuming that they start to interfere with their daily life." Related: Trump derangement syndrome 11/01/2025 Insubordinate Officers Publicly Attack The Secretary Of War Trump derangement syndrome 05/21/2025 ICE captures illegal immigrant wanted for allegedly killing mother in DUI crash Trump derangement syndrome 12/03/2024 Support dwindles for cracking down on nonprofit terror financing |
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