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

    By Bandy X. Lee, Robert Jay Lifton, Gail Sheehy and

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMar 19, 2019
    ISBN9781250256287
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    Bandy X. Lee

    Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., is a Forensic Psychiatrist at Yale School of Medicine and a Project Group Leader for the World Health Organization Violence Prevention Alliance. 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 has taught at Yale Law School for more than fifteen years and has spearheaded a number of prison reform projects around the country, including of the notorious Rikers Island jail of New York City. She’s written more than one hundred peer-reviewed articles and chapters, edited more than a dozen academic books, and is author of the textbook Violence.

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    • 2/5
      The most hilarious biased book ever. She was so sociopathicly upset that she made up the least intelligent arguments ever to try to paint Trump as some low IQ evil monster. She wrote this book lolol. Talk about Trump derangement syndrome.
    • 5/5
      The references and details made in this book were verifiable.

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    • 5/5
      An Essential Primer for American Citizens

      You don’t have to watch Donald Trump for long to realize that he suffers from some serious mental issues. He puts them on full display every single day as he lies, bullies, wrecks, and corrupts his way through his presidency. In fact, just this week, as Dorian worked its way across the Caribbean and up the east coast of the U.S., as millions prepared to have their lives disrupted and perhaps ended, he assumed the role of national weatherman, dispensed false information, got called out on it, went on a rampage for days insisting he was right, and bullied NOAA officials into backing him up, turning that organization into yet another political pawn in what has become an international Faustian tragedy. So, what is this man’s problem, why do his group of disciples follow him blindly, and what can the majority of rational Americans do about an ever deteriorating situation?

      As to the first, American citizens can read what real experts, not empty-headed bloviators on T.V. and the internet, have to say about Donald Trump’s many mental problems in this essential primer on abnormal psychology and the various aberrant mental conditions Trump exhibits. Primary among are sociopathy (“Sociopathy,” by Lance Dodes, M.D.), malignant narcissism and antisocial personality disorder (“Donald Trump Is: A) Bad, B) Mad, C) All of the Above,” by John D. Gartner, Ph.D.), and narcissistic personality disorder (“Pathological Narcissism and Politics,” by Craig Malkin, Ph.D.), to highlight a few of the essays and analyses in this volume. Many will find this very disturbing reading because in totality the book disabuses any hope that we have anything less than a fully deranged, volatile personality occupying the White House and wearing the mantle of most powerful person in the world.

      Regarding the second, how can such a clearly ill individual not only attract adherents but keep them glued to himself no matter how outrageous his bluster or cruel and dangerous his actions? You’ll find answers in this book, as well. As one example, “Birtherism and the Deployment of the Trumpian Mind-Set,” by Luba Kessler, M.D. explores how Trump manipulated this lie into an appeal to the desire of some to blame others for their sense of loss.

      In answer to the last question, you, American Citizen, can read this book to grasp the truly dire situation we find ourselves in. (Published in October 2017, many predictions of future behavior have already come to pass.) Then you can get out and vote in the 2020 election. More, you can get your friends out as well. Because what will make the difference are numbers, numbers enough to overcome the advantage Republicans have given themselves by virtue of gerrymandering districts nationwide.

      Finally, you might wonder how psychiatrists can diagnose an individual without having the individual on their couches. Don’t we have a rule about that (the so-called Goldwater Rule)? This volume contains a number of articles addressing this issue, as well as the duty to warn precept in clinical psychology. Suffice it to say here that these essays deal with explaining psychological abnormalities in general and with reference to research and how Trump exhibits these in a variety of his public pronouncements and behaviors. To think that trained and experienced professionals could not discuss our president or any other official without drawing on their training should strike you as absurd. Those who attack the volume as removed diagnosis simply can’t accept that we have a clear and present danger in our midst and a duty to call it to everybody’s attention.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Right on...hope we survive this dangerous person in a position of power.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I loved this book......it says alot about people by their reaction to this book.....
      My thoughts kept going to...does anyone care about this man? does anyone care enough to get him help? where is his family?
      Inspiring....terrifying.....and sad

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a Presidentby Bandy X. Lee, Craig Malkin I picked this up from the library and being a nurse I realize they can't diagnose a Twitter maniac technical from afar, and there is the Goldwater rule that mental health experts are supposed to think of but this book also brings up other points just as important if not more. The duty to warn! They feel if is their duty to notify those in charge, which they did, that something may not be right with the guy who always lies, toots his own horn, lives in his own world, and has no empathy for...well anyone! It is not hard, at this point, for anyone on the planet to know what Trump is thinking because immediately the thought rushes down to his thumbs to the phone and out to Twitter. No filter. The psychiatrists had lots to work with plus all his speaches, still, no filter.They explain what different abnormal personality traits are, compare, and let the reader decide. They also let the reader know what a person with this or that abnormal personality disorder would do to get say more attention, or more power. It is scary what they predict. This book is not up to date yet you would think it is by how accurate it is describing Trump's behavior. If he keeps going unchecked, he will likely start a war so he can make sure he can get more power over the people like Bush did when Bush lied and got us in the Iraq war. We lost rights and haven't got those back "to protect freedom" we lost freedom! Somehow, he could suspend elections, increase taxes, limit the press for "security" , and so much more. This is someone that wants to be a dictator, not a role model President. His high is not beer, it is power and admiration! Where does he go from here, after being the president of the United States? He will want more, it is built in to him...

      3 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I checked this book out at my county library after waiting for my name to float to the top of the waiting list. It was well worth the wait. I recommend that everyone of voting age read this compilation of articles about the mental health of Donald J. Trump. Readers will gain insight into how he came to be President of the United States and can come to their own conclusions as to whether he is sane, dangerous or crazy. The various issues discussed in the book will be of concern to citizens of the United States and the rest of the world as long a this man holds the office of President of the United States and perhaps long after.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Subjective opinions from so called “experts”. Doesn’t hold weight sorry.

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