The dangerous case of Donald Trump : 37 psychiatrists and mental health experts assess a president

Lee, Bandy X., 1970- (editor.).

Summary: "He's only getting worse. Donald Trump's erratic behavior throughout his presidential campaign caused many of us to ask: What is wrong with him? After the election, politicians and pundits assured us he would change once he took office and would live up to his role as president. After spending two years in the most powerful position in the world, however, Trump has only gotten worse. He rants. He lashes out. He threatens violence. He holds rallies to rile up his supporters. And he lies constantly. He has become, to use the word of one former staffer, "unhinged." In this updated and expanded edition of the bestselling The Dangerous case of Donald Trump, the twenty-seven psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health experts who first took on their brave "duty to warn" the public about the dangers of Trump are now joined by ten more."--Dust jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9781250256287
ISBN: 1250256283
ISBN: 9781250212863
ISBN: 1250212863
ISBN: 9781250179463
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource.
Edition: Updated and expanded second editon.
Publisher: New York : Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2019.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Foreword to the second edition: the dire warning of mental health experts / Jeffrey D. Sachs -- Prologue to the second edition: professions and activism / Stephen Soldz and Bandy X. Lee -- Foreword to the first edition: our witness to malignant normality / Robert Jay Lifton -- Prologue to the first edition: professions and politics / Judith Lewis Herman and Bandy X. Lee. Introduction: our duty to warn and to protect / Bandy X. Lee. Part 1 The Trump phenomenon : 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 Donald 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. Part 2 The Trump dilemma : 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. Part 3 The Trump effect : 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 contexts 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. Part 4 Sociocultural consequences : Persistent enslavement systemic trauma: the deleterious impact of Trump's rhetoric on black and brown people / Kevin Washington -- Traumatic consequences for immigrant populations in the United States / Rosa Maria Bramble -- To Trump, some lives matter / Ellyn Uram Kaschak -- The charismatic leader-follower relationship and Trump's base / Jerrold M. Post. Part 5 Humanity's perpetuation and survival : The myth of nuclear war / James R. Merikangas, with Tarannum M. Lateef -- The age of Thanatos: environmental consequences of the Trump presidency / Lise Van Sustern and H. Steven Moffic -- The Goldwater rule and the silence of American psychiatry: a 2017 symposium / Nassir Ghaemi -- Is the Commander in Chief fit to serve? A nonpartisan test that marries U.S. Army leadership standards with psychoanalytic theory / Prudence Gourguechon -- Disordered minds: democracy as a defense against dangerous personalities / Ian Hughes -- Congress should establish an alternative body to assess the President / Norman Eisen and Richard Painter. Epilogue: reaching beyond the professions / Noam Chomsky, with Bandy X. Lee. Appendix: transcript of the Yale Conference (online).
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