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? Constrained by the American Psychiatric Association's "Goldwater rule," which inhibits mental health professio...

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Other Authors: Lee, Bandy X., 1970- (Editor)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.
Edition: First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword:
  • Our witness to malignant normality /
  • Robert Jay Lifton
  • Prologue:
  • 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).