Trump on the Couch

Inside the Mind of the President

De: Justin A. Frank

Narrado por: Fred Sanders, Justin A. Frank

"A great public service--critical for our time."
--Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., Yale psychiatrist, expert on violence, and editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

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.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"I've known Trump a long time and I have even tried my own hand at psychoanalyzing him on television. But, Dr. Frank has shown a more complete picture inside our 45th President's mind than I ever dared to consider. Behind all Trump's tough guy theatrics, his petty cruelties and bloated ego is a tangled knot of pathologies that should terrify us all. Trump on the Couch is a great first step to sizing up the President's inner demons.”
—Donny Deutsch, Co-Host on MSNBC’s Morning Joe

"Trump On The Couch has spared me the extra grief of hoping against hope that our President will change. Dr. Frank’s analysis helps explain the genesis of Trump’s bullying, cruelty, dismissiveness, sexism, sadism, narcissism and more to help us understand that very sick man. Now I can brace myself in a more efficient way - not teetering between disbelief and denial but accepting what is, and continuing to resist."
—Joan Baez

“A breathtaking book! While I have maintained that a full psychological analysis is not possible from a distance, Dr. Frank has convinced me that there can be an exception. A rare convergence of top-tier clinical prowess and rigorous research into high-quality data, Trump on the Couch is thoughtful, accurate, and responsibly informative in ways that make it a great public service—critical for our time.”
—Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div., Yale psychiatrist, expert on violence, and editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump

“Ordinarily, we rely on our presidents to help us contain our anxiety. According to Dr. Frank, this president needs us to contain his. Trump on the Couch lays out a compelling argument that Donald Trump relentlessly and defensively locates his own dishonesty, incompetence and weakness in others. It gives us a language, a theory, and compelling evidence to place Trump’s otherwise bewildering and sometimes terrifying behavior in perspective.”
—Edward R. Shapiro, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center, coauthor of Lost in Familiar Places: Creating New Connections between the Individual and Society, Editor of The Inner World in the Outer World: Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Educational and Insightful

Intriguing and understandable in-depth observation and description of the psychological conundrum which creates the Trump enigma.

Very enlightening

This is a very interesting and compelling look into the psyche of 47. I got this book at the beginning of covid but after the election that year i figured i didn’t have to finish reading it. Lol who woulda thunk it. So of course now i became reinterested. It’s really a painful book if you have any compassion at all. I was horrified through parts of it also because my family dynamics were really similar and a couple of my childhood experiences made me realize that i came very close to winding up as a seriously destructive person. Luckily i went the creative route. Listening to this book was like learning how to read xrays from human experience. I mean you’re not gonna wind up with the knowledge that a psychiatrist has by any means but you will definitely wind up with a few more tools in your box and an understanding of how people end up rationalizing their decisions. You will learn about the president and yourself.

Excellent view into the mind of a monster.

As a mental health professional the author does a superb job analyzing Trumps unique and destructive psyche. He also gives us insight on how to mange these types of personalities.

Know Trump more intimately than yourself...

This clinical analysis explains every characteristic, every aspect of his behavior and it finally and catastrophically makes sence.

Intelligent and insightful

I enjoyed being able to look at Trump’s behavior from another perspective. Read -it further confirmed my own studies (and intuition) about 45. And I was able to see much more of myself there than I could stand.