CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

DEDICATION

FOREWORD

Our Witness to Malignant Normality

Robert Jay Lifton, M.D.

PROLOGUE

Professions and Politics

Judith Lewis Herman, M.D., and Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div.

INTRODUCTION

Our Duty to Warn

Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div.

PART 1: The Trump Phenomenon

Unbridled and Extreme Present Hedonism: How the Leader of the Free World Has Proven Time and Again He Is Unfit for Duty

Philip Zimbardo, Ph.D., and Rosemary Sword

Pathological Narcissism and Politics: A Lethal Mix

Craig Malkin, Ph.D.

I Wrote The Art of the Deal with Donald Trump: His Self-Sabotage Is Rooted in His Past

Tony Schwartz

Trump’s Trust Deficit Is the Core Problem

Gail Sheehy, Ph.D.

Sociopathy

Lance Dodes, M.D.

Donald Trump Is: (A) Bad, (B) Mad, (C) All of the Above

John D. Gartner, Ph.D.

Why “Crazy Like a Fox” versus “Crazy Like a Crazy” Really Matters: Delusional Disorder, Admiration of Brutal Dictators, the Nuclear Codes, and Trump

Michael J. Tansey, Ph.D.

Cognitive Impairment, Dementia, and POTUS

David M. Reiss, M.D.

Donald J. Trump, Alleged Incapacitated Person: Mental Incapacity, the Electoral College, and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment

James A. Herb, M.A., Esq.

PART 2: The Trump Dilemma

Should Psychiatrists Refrain from Commenting on Trump’s Psychology?

Leonard L. Glass, M.D., M.P.H.

On Seeing What You See and Saying What You Know: A Psychiatrist’s Responsibility

Henry J. Friedman, M.D.

The Issue Is Dangerousness, Not Mental Illness

James Gilligan, M.D.

A Clinical Case for the Dangerousness of Donald J. Trump

Diane Jhueck, L.M.H.C., D.M.H.P.

Health, Risk, and the Duty to Protect the Community

Howard H. Covitz, Ph.D., A.B.P.P.

New Opportunities for Therapy in the Age of Trump

William J. Doherty, Ph.D.

PART 3: The Trump Effect

Trauma, Time, Truth, and Trump: How a President Freezes Healing and Promotes Crisis

Betty P. Teng, M.F.A., L.M.S.W.

Trump Anxiety Disorder: The Trump Effect on the Mental Health of Half the Nation and Special Populations

Jennifer Contarino Panning, Psy.D.

In Relationship with an Abusive President

Harper West, M.A., L.L.P.

Birtherism and the Deployment of the Trumpian Mind-Set

Luba Kessler, M.D.

Trump’s Daddy Issues: A Toxic Mix for America

Steve Wruble, M.D.

Trump and the American Collective Psyche

Thomas Singer, M.D.

Who Goes Trump? Tyranny as a Triumph of Narcissism

Elizabeth Mika, M.A., L.C.P.C.

The Loneliness of Fateful Decisions: Social and Psychological Vulnerability

Edwin B. Fisher, Ph.D.

He’s Got the World in His Hands and His Finger on the Trigger: The Twenty-Fifth Amendment Solution

Nanette Gartrell, M.D., and Dee Mosbacher, M.D., Ph.D.

EPILOGUE

Reaching Across Professions

Noam Chomsky, Ph.D., with Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div.

NOTES

APPENDIX

Transcript of the Yale Conference (online)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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