The dangerous case of Donald Trump : 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts assess a president
| Print Book 2017 |
| Available at 14 Libraries 14 of 15 copies |
Summary
The New York Times bestseller! More than two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists offer their consensus view that Trump's mental state presents a clear and present danger to our nation and individual well-being.
This is not normal.
Since the start of Donald Trump's presidential run, one question has quietly but urgently permeated the observations of concerned citizens: What is wrong with him? Constrained by the American Psychiatric Association's "Goldwater rule," which inhibits mental health professionals from diagnosing public figures they have not personally examined, many of those qualified to answer this question have shied away from discussing the issue at all. The public has thus been left to wonder whether he is mad, bad, or both.
In THE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP, twenty-seven psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health experts argue that, in Mr. Trump's case, their moral and civic "duty to warn" America supersedes professional neutrality. They then explore Trump's symptoms and potentially relevant diagnoses to find a complex, if also dangerously mad, man.
Philip Zimbardo and Rosemary Sword, for instance, explain Trump's impulsivity in terms of "unbridled and extreme present hedonism." Craig Malkin writes on pathological narcissism and politics as a lethal mix. Gail Sheehy, on a lack of trust that exceeds paranoia. Lance Dodes, on sociopathy. Robert Jay Lifton, on the "malignant normality" that can set in everyday life if psychiatrists do not speak up.
His madness is catching, too. From the trauma people have experienced under the Trump administration to the cult-like characteristics of his followers, he has created unprecedented mental health consequences across our nation and beyond.
It's not all in our heads. It's in his.
"There will not be a book published this fall more urgent, important, or controversial than The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump ...profound, illuminating and discomforting" --Bill Moyers
Contents
Foreword: Our witness to malignant normality / Robert Jay LiftonPrologue: Professions and politics / Judith Lewis Herman and Bandy X. Lee
Introduction: Our duty to warn / Bandy X. Lee
Unbridled and extreme present hedonism : How the leader of the free world has proven time and again he is unfit for duty / Philip Zimbardo and Rosemary Sword
Pathological narcissism and politics : A lethal mix / Craig Malkin
I wrote The Art of the Deal with Trump : His self-sabotage is rooted in his past / Tony Schwartz
Trump's trust deficit is the core problem / Gail Sheehy
Sociopathy / Lance Dodes
Donald Trump is: (A) Bad, (B) Mad, (C) All of the above / John D. Gartner
Why 'crazy like a fox' versus 'crazy like a crazy' really matters : Delusional disorder, admiration of brutal dictators, the nuclear codes, and Trump / Michael J. Tansey
Cognitive impairment, dementia, and POTUS / David M. Reiss
Donald J. Trump, alleged incapacitated person : Mental incapacity, the Electoral College, and the Twenty-fifth Amendment / James A. Herb
Should psychiatrists refrain from commenting on Trump's psychology? / Leonard L. Glass
On seeing what you see and saying what you know : A psychiatrist's responsibility / Henry J. Friedman
The issue is dangerousness, not mental illness / James Gilligan
A clinical case for the dangerousness of Donald J. Trump / Diane Jhueck
Health, risk, and the duty to protect the community / Howard H. Covitz
New opportunities for therapy in the age of Trump / William J. Doherty
Trauma, time, truth, and Trump: How a president freezes healing and promotes crisis / Betty P. Teng
Trump Anxiety Disorder : The Trump effect on the mental health of half the nation and special populations / Jennifer Contarino Panning
In relationship with an abusive president / Harper West
Birtherism and the deployment of the Trumpian mind-set / Luba Kessler
Trump's daddy issues : A toxic mix for America / Steve Wruble
Trump and the American collective psyche / Thomas Singer
Who goes Trump? Tyranny as a triumph of narcissism / Elizabeth Mika
The loneliness of fateful decisions : Social and psychological vulnerability / Edwin B. Fisher
He's got the world in his hands and his finger on the trigger : The Twenty-fifth Amendment solution / Nanette Gartrell and Dee Mosbacher
Epilogue: Reaching across professions : Noam Chomsky with Bandy X. Lee
Appendix: Transcript of the Yale Conference (online).
Additional Information
| Subjects |
Trump, Donald,
-- 1946-
-- Mental health.
Trump, Donald, -- 1946- -- Psychology. Despotism -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies. Heads of state -- Mental health -- Case studies. Public administration -- Decision making -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies. Political leadership -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies. Presidents -- United States -- Psychology -- Case studies. United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-2021 -- Moral and ethical aspects. Biographies. |
| Publisher | New York :St. Martin's Press,2017 |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Contributors |
Lee, Bandy X.,
1970- editor. |
| Language |
English |
| Notes |
"A Thomas Dunne Book." |
| Description |
xix, 360 pages : illustration ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography Notes |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN | 9781250179456 1250179459 |
| Other | Classic View |