“A great public service–critical for our time.”
–Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., Yale psychiatrist, expert on violence, and editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
The New York Times-bestselling author of Bush on the Couch shows that Donald Trump is mentally and emotionally unfit to execute the duties of President.
No
president in the history of the United States has inspired more alarm
and confusion than Donald Trump. As questions and concerns about his
decisions, behavior, and qualifications for office have multiplied, they
point to one primary question: Does he pose a genuine threat to our
country? The American Psychiatric Association’s Goldwater Rule
constrains psychiatrists from offering diagnoses on public figures who
are not patients and who have not endorsed such statements. But in Trump on the Couch
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Justin A Frank invokes the moral
responsibility that compels him to speak out and present a full portrait
of a man who presents us with a clear and present danger.
Using
observations gained from a close study of Trump’s patterns of thought,
action, and communication, Dr. Frank uncovers a personality riddled with
mental health issues. His analysis is filled with important
revelations about our nation’s leader, including disturbing insights
into his childhood, his family, his business dealings, and his unusual
relationship with alternative facts, including how
• The
absence of a strong maternal force during childhood has led to Trump’s
remarkable lack of empathy and disregard for women’s boundaries;
• His
compulsion to polarize America has grown out of the way he perceives
the world as full of deceitful and destructive persecutors;
• His inability to tolerate the pain of frustration has triggered his belief that omnipotence will finally remove it;
• His idiosyncratic use of language points to larger issues than even his tweets might suggest.
With
our country itself at stake, Dr. Frank calls attention to the
underlying narcissism, misogyny, deception, and racism that drive the
President who endangers it. A penetrating examination of how we as a
nation got here and, more important, where we are going, Trump on the Couch sounds a call to action that we cannot ignore.