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Bandy X. Lee

Autor(a) de The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

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Dr. Bandy Lee is a violence studies specialist. Trained as a psychiatrist at Yale and Harvard Universities, she focused on public-sector work as chief resident and on anthropological research in East Africa as a fellow of the National Institute of Mental Health. In addition, she worked in several mostrar mais maximum-security prisons throughout the United States, consulted with governments in Ireland and France, and helped to set up violence prevention programs both in the U.S. and abroad. She is currently on the faculty of the Law and Psychiatry Division and teaches students representing asylum seekers or studying to become public defenders at Yale Law School. She also served as Director of Research for the Center for the Study of Violence, as consultant to the World Health Organization and several other United Nations agencies. Her interests are in global health approaches to violence prevention and interdisciplinary discourse. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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skimmed last 4 chapters of of Part 3
 
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pollycallahan | outras 7 resenhas | Jul 1, 2023 |
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.
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write-review | outras 7 resenhas | Nov 4, 2021 |
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.
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write-review | outras 7 resenhas | Nov 4, 2021 |
Right on...hope we survive this dangerous person in a position of power.
 
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Brightman | outras 7 resenhas | Nov 1, 2019 |

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