{"product_id":"trump-on-the-couch-inside-the-mind-of-the-president","title":"Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A great public service--critical for our time.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., Yale psychiatrist, expert on violence, and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Dangerous Case of Donald Trump\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBush on the Couch\u003c\/i\u003e shows that Donald Trump is mentally and emotionally unfit to execute the duties of President.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo 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 \u003ci\u003eTrump on the Couch\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUsing 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cli\u003eThe absence of a strong maternal force during childhood has led to Trump's remarkable lack of empathy and disregard for women's boundaries;\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eHis compulsion to polarize America has grown out of the way he perceives the world as full of deceitful and destructive persecutors;\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eHis inability to tolerate the pain of frustration has triggered his belief that omnipotence will finally remove it;\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eHis idiosyncratic use of language points to larger issues than even his tweets might suggest.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith 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, \u003ci\u003eTrump on the Couch\u003c\/i\u003e sounds a call to action that we cannot ignore.","brand":"Avery Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51939461988583,"sku":"9780735220324","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_83365d99-2821-4dc3-8561-ab4f49cc26ed.jpg?v=1775105913","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/trump-on-the-couch-inside-the-mind-of-the-president","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}