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The New York Times bestseller! More than two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists offer their consensus view that Trump's mental state presents a clear and present danger to our nation and individual well-being.

This is not normal.

Since the start of Donald Trump's presidential run, one question has quietly but urgently permeated the observations of concerned citizens: What is wrong with him? Constrained by the American Psychiatric Association's "Goldwater rule," which inhibits mental health professionals from diagnosing public figures they have not personally examined, many of those qualified to answer this question have shied away from discussing the issue at all. The public has thus been left to wonder whether he is mad, bad, or both.

In THE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP, twenty-seven psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health experts argue that, in Mr. Trump's case, their moral and civic "duty to warn" America supersedes professional neutrality. They then explore Trump's symptoms and potentially relevant diagnoses to find a complex, if also dangerously mad, man.

Philip Zimbardo and Rosemary Sword, for instance, explain Trump's impulsivity in terms of "unbridled and extreme present hedonism." Craig Malkin writes on pathological narcissism and politics as a lethal mix. Gail Sheehy, on a lack of trust that exceeds paranoia. Lance Dodes, on sociopathy. Robert Jay Lifton, on the "malignant normality" that can set in everyday life if psychiatrists do not speak up.

His madness is catching, too. 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.

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

"There will not be a book published this fall more urgent, important, or controversial than The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump ...profound, illuminating and discomforting" --Bill Moyers

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Foreword: Our Witness to Malignant Normality (p. xv)
• Prologue: Professions and Politics (p. 1)
• Introduction: Our Duty to Warn (p. 11)
• Part 1 The Trump Phenomenon (p. 23)
• Unbridled and Extreme Present Hedonism: How the Leader of the Free World Has Proven Time and Again He Is Unfit for Duty (p. 25)
• Pathological Narcissism and Politics: A Lethal Mix (p. 51)
• I Wrote The Art of the Deal with Donald Trump: His Self-Sabotage Is Rooted in His Past (p. 69)
• Trump's Trust Deficit Is the Core Problem (p. 75)
• Sociopathy (p. 83)
• Donald Trump Is: (A) Bad, (B) Mad, (C) All of the Above (p. 93)
• Why "Crazy Like a Fox" versus "Crazy Like a Crazy" Really Matters: Delusional Disorder, Admiration of Brutal Dictators, the Nuclear Codes, and Trump (p. 110)
• Cognitive Impairment, Dementia, and POTUS (p. 126)
• Donald J. Trump, Alleged Incapacitated Person: Mental Incapacity, the Electoral College, and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment (p. 136)
• Part 2 The Trump Dilemma (p. 149)
• Should Psychiatrists Refrain from Commenting on Trump's Psychology? (p. 151)
• On Seeing What You See and Saying What You Know: A Psychiatrist's Responsibility (p. 160)
• The Issue Is Dangerousness, Not Mental Illness (p. 170)
• A Clinical Case for the Dangerousness of Donald J. Trump (p. 181)
• Health, Risk, and the Duty to Protect the Community (p. 198)
• New Opportunities for Therapy in the Age of Trump (p. 209)
• Part 3 The Trump Effect (p. 217)
• Trauma, Time, Truth, and Trump: How a President Freezes Healing and Promotes Crisis (p. 219)
• Trump Anxiety Disorder: The Trump Effect on the Mental Health of Half the Nation and Special Populations (p. 235)
• In Relationship with an Abusive President (p. 244)
• Birtherism and the Deployment of the Trumpian Mind-Set (p. 261)
• Trump's Daddy Issues: A Toxic Mix for America (p. 268)
• Trump and the American Collective Psyche (p. 281)
• Who Goes Trump? Tyranny as a Triumph of Narcissism (p. 298)
• The Loneliness of Fateful Decisions: Social and Psychological Vulnerability (p. 319)
• He's Got the World in His Hands and His Finger on the Trigger: The Twenty-Fifth Amendment Solution (p. 343)
• Epilogue: Reaching Across Professions (p. 356)
• Appendix: Transcript of the Yale Conference (online) (p. 361)

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Kirkus Book Review

Mental health professionals and others make the case that Donald Trump is mentally ill, dangerous, or both.Editor Lee (Law and Psychiatry/Yale School of Medicine) asked for and received submissions for this book within a three-week period, and several of them show signs of being written in haste. Many of the contributors are psychologists or psychiatrists in private practice; others include journalist Gail Sheehy, Tony Schwartz, the co-author of Trump's The Art of the Deal, and attorney and "political junkie" James A. Herb, who filed a petition in the Palm Beach County Circuit Court to determine Trump's mental incapacity in October 2016, "based on the fact that Trump's apparent lack of mental capacity to function could impact me and possibly the whole world." The volume makes no attempt to avoid bias; it's aimed strictly at demonstrating that Trump shouldn't be in office (admittedly a view held by tens of millions of other Americans) and that a panel of mental health professionals should be established to determine his lack of fitness. At the heart of many of the essays is the increasingly controversial 1973 "Goldwater rule" implemented by the American Psychiatric Association, which states that psychiatrists shouldn't diagnose public figures without personally examining them. Also frequently cited is the Tarasoff decision made by California in 1976, which states that psychiatrists should speak out when they know that "an individual is dangerous to another person or persons." Some of the essays border on self-parody: one author argues seriously that "post-Trump stress disorder" ought to be considered "as serious as PTSD." Read collectively, the essays become repetitious: the contributors lean on the same definitions of narcissism and paranoia and cite the same tweets and passages from speeches, most of which will already be familiar to readers. As with most anti-Trump books, this one will shore up the opinions of those already convinced of his lack of fitness for the job but won't change the minds of his supporters, the vast majority of whom won't read it. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.