The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays

Bandy X. Lee

Mar 2019 · Sold by Thomas Dunne Books

About this ebook

As this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes new essays bringing the book up to date—because this is still not normal.

Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway bestseller. Alarmed Americans and international onlookers wanted to know: What is wrong with him?

That question still plagues us. The Trump administration has proven as chaotic and destructive as its opponents feared, and the man at the center of it all remains a cipher.

Constrained by the APA’s “Goldwater rule,” which inhibits mental health professionals from diagnosing public figures they have not personally examined, many of those qualified to weigh in on the issue have shied away from discussing it at all. The public has thus been left to wonder whether he is mad, bad, or both.

The prestigious mental health experts who have contributed to the revised and updated version of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump argue that their moral and civic "duty to warn" supersedes professional neutrality. Whatever affects him, affects the nation: From the trauma people have experienced under the Trump administration to the cult-like characteristics of his followers, he has created unprecedented mental health consequences across our nation and beyond. With eight new essays (about one hundred pages of new material), this edition will cover the dangerous ramifications of Trump's unnatural state.

It’s not all in our heads. It’s in his.

Ratings and reviews

This book is so blatantly written from a leftist liberal viewpoint its agonizing for a balanced objective free thinking individual to as much as scan the first few pages of this work of liberal indoctrination. Given the benefit of time & what the administration that is currently in power has already done to date to destroy everything that a God-fearing American ( in this case North-American) holds dear, who really is the psycho-maniac & mentally unstable personality they are accusing Trump of being??? The current president, Joe Biden, has had so many cognitive gaffes & embarrassing public displays with deafening silence from the mainstream media...lets see the authors write about that..shall we? No, I don't buy your rhetoric accusing the most honest ( his only downfall) president to take office in decades of what you & yours are blatantly guilty of yourselves. What you are accusing Trump & his followers of... you are the guilty party.

the most Delusional book ever

About the author

Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., is Assistant Clinical Professor in Law and Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. She earned her degrees at Yale, interned at Bellevue, was Chief Resident at Mass General, and was a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School. She was also a Fellow of the National Institute of Mental Health. She’s written more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, edited several academic books, and is author of the textbook Violence.