Out this Fall-The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess,

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Available Oct 3rd

The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President

“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?”

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Political Wire

[Tanuki]

1. Thanks for the heads-up. I look forward to reading this.

[Kleveland]

2. What is wrong with him?

He is a reflection and manifestation of what is wrong with "us" as a country.

The minority of immoral miscreants among us, are hell bent on ruining the lives of those of us who were born with compassion, decency and goodness in their hearts and minds.

It is all compounded by the unfettered and festering capitalistic greed, and the cut-and-paste "Christian" religion that seems to have taken hold of the lives of the millions of misguided citizens in this country.

[Ilsa]

3. Here is the write-up on Amazon:

The consensus view of two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists that Trump is dangerously mentally ill and that he presents a clear and present danger to the nation and our own mental health.

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.

I'm pleased they say they have a "duty to warn," just as if he was a rare schizophrenic with murderous tendencies who has gone off meds and owns an armory of weapons and ammo.

[Gabi Hayes]

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