PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Kenneth B. Dekleva TI - Leadership Analysis and Political Psychology in the 21st Century AID - 10.29158/JAAPL.003771-18 DP - 2018 Sep 01 TA - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online PG - 359--363 VI - 46 IP - 3 4099 - http://jaapl.org/content/46/3/359.short 4100 - http://jaapl.org/content/46/3/359.full SO - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law2018 Sep 01; 46 AB - The election of President Trump has led to interest in his mental health and has resulted in heightened scrutiny regarding the American Psychiatric Association's Goldwater Rule, with its prohibition on opining psychiatrically on the mental health of public figures whom one has not examined in person. This article highlights the historic, methodological, forensic, and ethics challenges regarding psychiatric approaches to leadership analysis, and how these can offer policy makers options regarding national security decision-making.