Are Liberals Out of Their Minds? Why do modern liberals think and act as they do? The radical left's politics and its destructive effects on our basic freedoms have provoked many to speculate on what makes these people tick. The Liberal Mind answers the question. This book is the first systematic analysis of the political madness that now threatens to destroy the West's greatest achievement: the American dream of civilized liberty. In his penetrating analysis, Dr. Rossiter reveals modern liberalism's assaults on: The freedom of adults to make good lives for themselves by cooperating with others, The ability of families to raise children to be self-reliant and mutual, and The morals, rights and laws that protect our freedoms. Modern liberalism's irrationality can only be understood as the product of psychopathology. So extravagant are the patterns of thinking, emoting, behaving and relating that characterize the liberal mind that its relentless protests and demands become understandable only as disorders of the psyche. The Liberal Mind reveals the madness of the modern liberal for what it is: a massive transference neurosis acted out in the world's political arenas, with devastating effects on the institutions of liberty.
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Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., M.D. received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago. He is board certified in both general and forensic psychiatry and has diagnosed and treated mental disorders for more than forty years. He has been retained by numerous public offices, courts, and private attorneys as a forensic psychiatrist and has consulted in more than 2700 civil and criminal cases in both state and federal jurisdictions.
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Good premise but wordy and dry in most parts,
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To begin, I agree with the author's premise. The reasoning that liberals use is faulty, and the author goes to great pains to show this using psychological theories. But most of the book gets bogged down in this and is difficult to read. It's a 400 page book, and the lines seem close together so that each page is quite dense. The author takes a rather academic tone. Sample several pages if you're able to by using Amazon's sampler. This is not your usual political book charged with colloquial rhetoric.
Aside from the long stretches of dry reading (which I admittedly glossed over), there are a few parts that were strong. These parts tended toward bullet points. If you have a strong interest in psychology (some Erikson fellow is cited repeatedly) do give this book a look. If you're wanting the book from a political perspective you should evaluate your desire to read a scholarly dissection of modern liberals. Neutral recommendation overall.
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I purchased this book to illuminate the wellspring of a slightly different topic, Why liberals feel socialism is superior to freedom, given the evidence of the last 120 years and the blood spilled by governments against their own people. Rommels book "The Black Book of Communism" details the horrors, but not the "Why". Given the evidence of total failures of Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Castro, the African Communist states, the current clown Hugo Chavez plus the failures of the European states in both production and sheer vitality (their demographic populations will disappear within 50 years given current birth rates) you would think that even the liberal's would be demanding an overhaul of their own philosophy, or even second thoughts. Not so. Throughout the centuries man has stumbled from one leadership model to another: Roman Emperors, Kings and Fuedalism, Popes, Aristocracy, and Socialism. All are dead ends for those who wished to rule over the individual. Everything from gun control to Gulags have been tried by the socialist state without achivement, yet they use the same methods over and over. To repeat the same action over and over and expect different results is the very definition of madness. This book gives the "Why"
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Intriguing Insights Into the Minds of Liberals,
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Dr. Rossiter's very illuminating and insightful book answers questions that many of us have asked about the essentially childlike behavior of liberals - for instance, their temper tantrums, sense of entitlement, intolerance, and grandiosity. While listing any number of liberals' infantile expectations - from a powerful parental government to a guarantee of material security from the state to laws that punish the "haves" for their excesses and compensate the "have-nots" for their pangs of envy to an international caring agenda that understands everyone's hardships and tolerates destructive actions by others, the list goes on - Rossiter concludes that, "these and other goals dear to the modern liberal heart are remarkable for the childhood needs they address and the adult needs they ignore." This is an important resource for those seeking to understand what makes the liberals among us tick. Joan Swirsky, NY-based journalist and author.
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