A full psychoanalytic portrait of President Donald Trump by the New York Times-bestselling author of Bush on the Couch and Obama on the Couch.
Justin A. Frank, M.D. is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and a physician with more than forty years of experience in psychoanalysis. He is a frequent contributor to HuffingtonPost.com and has served as a columnist for Time Inc., DailyBeast.com, and Salon.com. He is also the bestselling author of Bush on the Couch (2004), as well as Obama on the Couch (2011).
"I've known Trump a long time and I have even tried my
own hand at psychoanalyzing him on television. But, Dr. Frank has
shown a more complete picture inside our 45th President's mind than
I ever dared to consider. Behind all Trump's tough guy theatrics,
his petty cruelties and bloated ego is a tangled knot of
pathologies that should terrify us all. Trump on the Couch is a
great first step to sizing up the President's
inner demons.”
—Donny Deutsch, Co-Host on MSNBC’s Morning Joe
"Trump On The Couch has spared me the extra grief of hoping against
hope that our President will change. Dr. Frank’s analysis helps
explain the genesis of Trump’s bullying, cruelty, dismissiveness,
sexism, sadism, narcissism and more to help us understand that very
sick man. Now I can brace myself in a more efficient way - not
teetering between disbelief and denial but accepting what is, and
continuing to resist."
—Joan Baez
“A breathtaking book! While I have maintained that a full
psychological analysis is not possible from a distance, Dr. Frank
has convinced me that there can be an exception. A rare
convergence of top-tier clinical prowess and rigorous research into
high-quality data, Trump on the Couch is thoughtful, accurate, and
responsibly informative in ways that make it a great public
service—critical for our time.”
—Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., Yale psychiatrist, expert on violence,
and editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump
“Ordinarily, we rely on our presidents to help us contain our
anxiety. According to Dr. Frank, this president needs us to contain
his. Trump on the Couch lays out a compelling argument
that Donald Trump relentlessly and defensively locates his own
dishonesty, incompetence and weakness in others. It gives us a
language, a theory, and compelling evidence to place Trump’s
otherwise bewildering and sometimes terrifying behavior in
perspective.”
—Edward R. Shapiro, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,
Yale Child Study Center, coauthor of Lost in Familiar Places:
Creating New Connections between the Individual and
Society, Editor of The Inner World in the Outer World:
Psychoanalytic Perspectives
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