The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President - Updated and Expanded with New Essays

De: Bandy X. Lee MD - editor

Narrado por: William Dufris, Hillary Huber, Alex Hyde-White, P.J. Ochlan, full cast

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

Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway best seller. 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 cultlike characteristics of his followers, he has created unprecedented mental health consequences across our nation and beyond. With eight new essays, this edition will cover the dangerous ramifications of Trump's unnatural state.

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

This program is read by Alex Hyde-White, William Dufris, Hillary Huber, Rosa Maria Bramble, Nanette Gartrell, Leonard L. Glass, Prudence Gourguechon, Luba Kessler, Bandy X. Lee, James R. Merikangas, Elizabeth Mika, P. J. Ochlan, Richard Painter, Jennifer Contarino Panning, Thomas Singer, Steven Soldz, Rosemary Sword, Michael J. Tansey, Betty P. Teng, Lise Van Susteren, Kevin Washington, and Steve Wruble.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2017, 2019 Bandy X. Lee (P)2017, 2019 Macmillan Audio

Crucial Information for Every American

Everyone needs to listen to this fascinating series of essays! Those of us who have been appalled by observing Trump's crazy behavior during the presidential campaign and since his election are aware of the bizarre and frightening aspects of his personality. This book not only confirms what we know, but also gives us the professional perspective we need to articulate our concerns. Individual essays address his malignant narcissism, sociopathy, pathological lying, delusions of grandeur, etc. For those of us who have had great difficulty in adjusting to life in the Trump era, I can't recommend this book highly enough. We are not wrong and we are not alone!

Required Reading for Citizens

This book is essentially preaching to the choir, but it is an excellent, restrained, intelligent but urgent message lest we fall into complacency or denial of the current precarious state we find ourselves in. I learned a lot. I now understand my biggest mystery--why the supporters fervently support such madness and irresponsibility.

The Truth

Here's a great way to learn about the unfortunate truth of the occupant of the US Presidency.

Eye Opening

As someone with a psych background this was insightful and well written. I wish it was mandatory reading for anyone of age of voting in both the USA and abroad.

For those who've studied Psychology in any serious way, this is a great education on our sometimes conflicting duties and ethical dilemmas. It's great practice to help you determine where your line is drawn so you won't have to figure that out should the time ever come for you to take a stand.

Many people who are hateful of others who do not share their beliefs or preferences will rate this book negatively - by now we should all be aware of this phenomenon and take it with a grain of salt.

For those who do not hold formal education in psychology, some of the essays may seem redundant or meaningless, but it's not for those within the field. However, know that this is not a diagnosis of an individual - as explained no person not in a client-therapist role can determine with 100% certainty an exact diagnosis and the ethical contract would prevent them from sharing this even if they were in such a relationship anyway except in very few circumstances.

However risk assessment and exploration of potentialities... Well that's what we in psychology are well trained for. Giving a professional opinion and writing essays on said opinions and how one got there is what this book is about.

When it first came out those involved were attempted to be silenced by strong armed otherwise respected individuals in the field. They persisted and the consensus grew (Streisand effect). It initially was less than 30 essays. Now it's up to 37. There's a growing community of mental health and social workers who have seen the risk from the get go and frankly the risk applies to all countries with a growing population of hate groups and emboldened nationalist ideologies. Regardless of the overarching regulatory bodies we're taught to respect and not question - these are comprised of humans afterall and any person on power in a hierarchy should be held to account on legitimatizing their continued occupation in such a role. That's the reciprocal nature of respect and prestige - neither are a once earned forever attained constant variable. At least they shouldn't be.

We all have a lot of work to do to overcome this vs watching our communities disintegrate. This book is more on the reasons why and how this occurs via case example of an individual leader and their effects on others but also how this leader was given power in this role in the first place.

There's other texts on analysis and solutions available for what we need to do now. But this may be the motivation for resiliency in facing such obstacles in the weeks and years to come.

Vital Reading

This book taps into the professional perspective that the Trump saga has so far been missing. I personally didn’t need the extended defence and explanation of the ethical issues but can see why it was necessary in today’s climate. Fascinating insights, I will listen to it again as there was so much to take it, and I hope other mental health professionals come forward and help to inform and ultimately help protect the public in the future.

We Have a Would Be Tyrant at the Helm

Long, but very good book. It outlines that we, and indeed the world is in grave circumstances with Trump. I learned some material as far as psychiatry’s and psychology of the personality types of dictators.

No time for cognitive dissonance. Chage needed.

Noam Chomsky and 27 experts shine the light on what's ailing Trump.
Must read. Hurry!

If you weren't scared before you should be now!

Though technical in many cases of the Trump psyche the psychologists' evaluations will definitely bring you to your feet and then to your knees to pray we make it through this mess!

This Lights the Mystery of Trump Up

This book lets the reader understand, not only Trump, but his followers and it sheds light on the whole movement (or cult) of Trumpism by so doing. Very insightful.

This is scary stuff!

I have often reacted to things that our president has done or said by thinking that this is just not normal. This book, authored by 27+ professionals with sufficient medical credentials to make that assessment, confirms those fears. The contributors to this book offer their professional opinion, based on the presidents own statements and actions, that Trump may not be just an unconventional president, but a sick one. None of the contributors have done an actual examination of the president, but with the wealth of video and audio available through todays 24/7 news reporting, these experts each independently reached a unanimous conclusion that the president's current state exceeds "not normal" and approaches a level of psychosis. This book is both truly entertaining and scary!