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| ABOUT THE BOOK | |
| Bush On the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President | |
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| For all his simplicity and affability, George W. Bush has remained, to paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill, "a mystery wrapped in an enigma." In Bush on the Couch, Dr. Justin A. Frank, a well-respected Washington, D.C.-based psychoanalyst and professor of psychiatry, unwraps that mystery, assembling a comprehensive psychological profile of President Bush. Using the principles of applied psychoanalysis -- the discipline of psychoanalyzing public and historical figures pioneered by Freud -- Frank fearlessly builds his case ... and reaches conclusions that are at once highly persuasive and deeply disturbing. | ||
| Customer Reviews | ||
Number of Reviews: 7 Average Rating:    Write your own online review!Showing 1-5 NextA reviewer, A reviewer, August 19, 2004,  BUSH ON THE COUCH VERY GOOD OBSERVATION AND MOST INTERESTING MOST OF US HAS SAID THAT FROM THE START OF 2000 EVEN BEFORE YOUR EITHER WITH US OR AGAINST US IS LIKE PARNOID OR A STALAN ADAFACT Also recommended: READ AMBUSHED A GOOD BOOK READ WORSE THAN WATERGATE ,, SEEMS MOST OF THE WRITERS BASICALLY SAY THE SAME THING HOW CAN SO MANY TALENTED PEOPLE BE WRONG A reviewer, A reviewer, August 5, 2004,  There Are Better Ways To Defeat Bush This Year I am a committed liberal, a registered Democrat, and a practicing psychologist (Psy.D). To write that Dr. Frank's book is misguided in the extreme is an understatement indeed. It is another example of a highly intelligent person (such as David Ray Griffin of Claremont) setting aside her or his professional training and intellectual honesty and engaging in data manipulation (at best) and outright fraud (at worst) in order to promote a partisan political point of view. We can hardly call the extreme right-wing to account for their unseemly willingness to engage in such practices on a number of important issues if we on the left are willing to lower ourselves to this level. There is an overwhelming case to be made against Bush's reelection as president; we do not need to include the arguments contained in this book among it. A reviewer, retired military officer, July 28, 2004,  A Must read by all voters This is a riveting expose of the President by a physican of stature. It is hard to put down and walkaway once you begin to read. Leads me to ask how we elected him in the first place, and, yes he needs to be sent back to Texas. A reviewer, A reviewer, July 21, 2004, The man has issues It is obvious to anyone who hasn't closed his eyes and mind to the obvious that the current president has some mental issues. Dr. Frank very convincingly and accurately describes exactly what those issues are. For those people who say this cannot be done without having seen the subject personally (Brian), maybe they missed the first chapter of the book. Here's what Dr. Frank has to say about that: 'President Bush is not my patient, of course, but the discipline of applied psychoanalysis gives us a way to make as much sense of his psyche as he is likely ever to allow. At its simplest level, applied psychoanalysis means the application of psychoanalytic principles to anybody outside one's own consulting room. The tradition of psychoanalyzing public figures dates back almost as far as psychoanalysis itself; Freud based some of his most important theories on his observations of individuals he could never get onto his couch, Moses and Leonardo da Vinci most notable among them. Indeed, if Freud were alive in the second half of the twentieth century, he might well have been recruited to offer his genius in the service of the U.S. intelligence effort. Somewhere in the bowels of the George H. W. Bush Center for Central Intelligence in Langley, Virginia, psychoanalysts are currently reviewing audio recordings, videotapes, and biographical information on dozens of contemporary world leaders, using the principles of applied psychoanalysis to develop detailed profiles for use by the CIA and the U.S. government and military. According to political psychiatrist Jerrold M. Post, M.D., who has chronicled the history of 'at-a-distance leader personality assessment in support of policy,' the marriage of psychoanalysis and U.S. intelligence dates back to the early 1940s, when the Office of Strategic Services commissioned two studies of Adolf Hitler. The effort was regarded as enough of a success that it was institutionalized in the 1960s, Post writes, first under the aegis of the Psychiatric Staff of the CIA's Office of Medical Services, which 'led to the establishment of the Center for the Analysis of Personality and Political Behavior' (CAPPB), which Post founded within the Directorate of Intelligence.' Also recommended: Lies and the lying liars that tell them, The Bush Dislexicon, Bushwacked Brian, A reviewer, July 13, 2004, Based on assumptions As a graduate student in psychology I read this book with interest. However I found the conclusions reached were not supported by facts and the author only used TV statements to reach a diagnosis! Real psychologists can only diagnosis a condition upon interviewing the patient. Don't bother with this one. | ||