The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays

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St. Martin's Publishing Group, Mar 19, 2019 - Political Science - 544 pages

As this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes new essays bringing the book up to date—because this is still not normal.

Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway bestseller. Alarmed Americans and international onlookers wanted to know: What is wrong with him?

That question still plagues us. The Trump administration has proven as chaotic and destructive as its opponents feared, and the man at the center of it all remains a cipher.

Constrained by the APA’s “Goldwater rule,” which inhibits mental health professionals from diagnosing public figures they have not personally examined, many of those qualified to weigh in on the issue have shied away from discussing it at all. The public has thus been left to wonder whether he is mad, bad, or both.

The prestigious mental health experts who have contributed to the revised and updated version of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump argue that their moral and civic "duty to warn" supersedes professional neutrality. Whatever affects him, affects the nation: 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. With eight new essays (about one hundred pages of new material), this edition will cover the dangerous ramifications of Trump's unnatural state.

It’s not all in our heads. It’s in his.

 

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Contents

INTRODUCTION
11
How
25
A Lethal Mix
51
SelfSabotage Is Rooted in His Past
69
Sociopathy
83
Why Crazy Like a Fox versus Crazy Like a Crazy
110
Cognitive Impairment Dementia and POTUS
126
Should Psychiatrists Refrain from Commenting on Trumps
151
How a President
219
The Trump Effect on
235
Birtherism and the Deployment of the Trumpian MindSet
261
Trump and the American Collective Psyche
281
Who Goes Trump? Tyranny as a Triumph of Narcissism
298
Social and Psychological
319
Hes Got the World in His Hands and His Finger on
343
EPILOGUE
356

A Clinical Case for the Dangerousness of Donald J Trump
181
Health Risk and the Duty to Protect the Community
198
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About the author (2019)

Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., is Assistant Clinical Professor in Law and Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. She earned her degrees at Yale, interned at Bellevue, was Chief Resident at Mass General, and was a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School. She was also a Fellow of the National Institute of Mental Health. She’s written more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, edited several academic books, and is author of the textbook Violence.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays
AuthorBandy X. Lee
ContributorsRobert Jay Lifton, Gail Sheehy, William J. Doherty, Noam Chomsky, Judith Lewis Herman, M.D., Philip Zimbardo, Ph.D., Rosemary Sword, Craig Malkin, Ph.D., Tony Schwartz, Lance Dodes, M.D., John D. Gartner, Ph.D., Michael J. Tansey, Ph.D., David M. Reiss, M.D., James A. Herb, M.A., Esq., Leonard L. Glass, M.D., M.P.H., Henry J. Friedman, M.D., James Gilligan, M.D., Diane Jhueck, L.M.H.C., D.M.H.P., Howard H. Covitz, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., Betty P. Teng, M.F.A., L.M.S.W., Jennifer Contarino Panning, Psy.D., Harper West, M.A., L.L.P., Luba Kessler, M.D., Steve Wruble, M.D., Thomas Singer, M.D., Elizabeth Mika, M.A., L.C.P.C., Edwin B. Fisher, Ph.D., Nanette Gartrell, M.D., Dee Mosbacher, M.D., Ph.D., Stephen Soldz
PublisherSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2019
ISBN1250256283, 9781250256287
Length544 pages
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Political Science / American Government / National
Political Science / American Government / State
Psychology / Psychopathology / General
  
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