Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President

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From Publishers Weekly Bush Administration policies are not only a "great catastrophe" but the products of a disturbed mind, according to this provocative blend of psychological case-study and partisan polemic. Psychoanalyst Frank sifts through family memoirs, the writings of critics like Al Franken and David Corn and the public record of Bushs personal idiosyncrasies for clues to the Presidents character, interpreting the evidence in the rigidly Freudian framework of child psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. He finds that Bush, psychically scarred by an absentee father and a cold, authoritarian mother, has developed a galloping case of megalomania, characterized by a Manichaean worldview, delusions of persecution and omnipotence and an "anal/sadistic" indifference to others pain, with removal from office the only "treatment option." The authors exegesis of Bushs personality traits-the drinking problem, the bellicose rhetoric, the verbal flailings and misstatements of fact, the religiosity and exercise routines, the hints of dyslexia and hyperactivity, the youthful cruelty to animals and schoolmates, the smirk-paints an intriguing, if exaggerated and contemptuous, portrait of a possibly troubled public figure. But Franks attempts to translate psychoanalysis into political analysis are unconvincing. Indeed, if Bushs reneging on campaign promises is a form of clinical "sadism," and his budget deficits an "unconscious attack on his own parents," then Karl Rove, the Cabinet, and both houses of Congress belong in group therapy with him.Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Read more About the Author Justin A. Frank, M.D., is a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at George Washington University Medical Center. Since 1980 he has been a teaching analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. He is past president of the Greater Washington Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Dr. Frank lives and practices psychoanalysis in Washington, D.C. Read more

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• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Harper; First Edition edition (June 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060736704
• ISBN-13: 05
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.9 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds

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