The New York Times-bestselling author of Bush on the Couch
shows that Donald Trump is mentally and emotionally unfit to execute
the duties of President.
No president in the history of the United States has inspired more
alarm and confusion than Donald Trump. As questions and concerns
about his decisions, behavior, and qualifications for office have
multiplied, they point to one primary question: Does he pose a
genuine threat to our country? The American Psychiatric Association’s
Goldwater Rule constrains psychiatrists from offering diagnoses on
public figures who are not patients and who have not endorsed such
statements. But in Trump on the Couch Clinical Professor of
Psychiatry Justin A Frank invokes the moral responsibility that
compels him to speak out and present a full portrait of a man who
presents us with a clear and present danger.
Using observations
gained from a close study of Trump’s patterns of thought, action,
and communication, Dr. Frank uncovers a personality riddled with
mental health issues. His analysis is filled with important
revelations about our nation’s leader, including disturbing
insights into his childhood, his family, his business dealings, and
his unusual relationship with alternative facts, including how
• The absence
of a strong maternal force during childhood has led to Trump’s
remarkable lack of empathy and disregard for women’s boundaries;
• His
compulsion to polarize America has grown out of the way he perceives
the world as full of deceitful and destructive persecutors;
• His inability
to tolerate the pain of frustration has triggered his belief that
omnipotence will finally remove it;
• His
idiosyncratic use of language points to larger issues than even his
tweets might suggest.
With our country
itself at stake, Dr. Frank calls attention to the underlying
narcissism, misogyny, deception, and racism that drive the President
who endangers it. A penetrating examination of how we as a nation got
here and, more important, where we are going, Trump on the Couch
sounds a call to action that we cannot ignore.