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Bush on the Couch Rev Ed: Inside the Mind of the President Paperback – October 23, 2007

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With the Bush administration in permanent crisis, a renowned Washington psychoanalyst updates his portrait of George W.'s public persona—and how it has damaged the presidency.

Insightful and accessible, courageous and controversial, Bush on the Couch sheds startling new light on George W. Bush's psyche and its impact on the way he governs, tackling head-on the question few seem willing to ask: Is our president psychologically fit to run the country? With an eye for the subtleties of human behavior sharpened by thirty years of clinical practice, Dr. Justin A. Frank traces the development of Bush's character from childhood through his presidency, identifying and analyzing his patterns of thought, action, and communication. The result is a troubling portrait filled with important revelations about our nation's leader—including disturbing new insights into:

How Bush reacted to the 2006 Democratic sweep in Congress with a new surge of troops into Iraq
His telling habits and coping strategies—from his persistent mangling of English to his tendency to "go blank" in the midst of crisis
The tearful public breakdown of his father, George H. W. Bush, and what it says about the former president's relationship to his prominent sons
The debacle of Katrina—the moment when Bush's arrogance finally failed him

With a new introduction and afterword, Bush on the Couch offers the most thorough and candid portrait to date of arguably the most psychologically damaged president since Nixon.

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Justin A. Frank, M.D., is a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at George Washington University Medical Center. Since 1980 he has been a teaching analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. He is past president of the Greater Washington Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility. Dr. Frank lives and practices psychoanalysis in Washington, D.C.

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Publisher : Harper Paperbacks; Revised ed. edition (October 23, 2007)
Language : English
Paperback : 320 pages
ISBN-10 : 006143065X
ISBN-13 : 978-0061430657
Item Weight : 14.5 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches

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Tom Dupree

Scary, but not as much as when it was first printed

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2009

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I'm sure it's done a great deal of good for others, but I've always found psychoanalysis to be the ultimate in senseless navel-gazing (maybe that's my own psychosis talking!). Sometimes, after all, a cigar is just a cigar. The author of this 2007 update of a 2004 book attempts to psychoanalyze George W. Bush without the benefit of personal interviews, but he has a lot of reported history to go on: the loss of a sister at age seven, a horrible trauma that turned his autocratic mother's hair white; a busy and distant father; failure to live up to the old man athletically, militarily, or in business; a decades-long drinking problem, still untreated, that may have physiological effects today; a streak of bullying and sadism that began in childhood and continued into the Presidency; and lots more. The author makes a complex case for Bush as an unhinged, non-reflective megalomaniac with dozens of enablers to keep him cloistered away from reason and reality, but the difficulty comes from what he does *not* know. For example, Bush's infamous MISSION ACCOMPLISHED strutting may indeed serve his particular psychological needs, but who says it was his idea? Maybe Karl Rove should join the former president on the couch. Bush is without question a personally nastier man than he advertises (consider the frogs and fraternity pledges he tortured in his youth, or the death row inmates whose pleas he cruelly mocked with a snicker before execution) but at the same time extremely timid (his one-on-one with an unyielding Sen. Jim Webb about the senator's son in Iraq revealed the bully and the coward at the same time). It's a fascinating stew; as I said, I'm not sure how much of psychoanalytic theory I really believe, but it's possible to conclude that while George W. Bush was president, he demonstrated deep, certifiable psychological problems -- and that his psychoses helped do harm to the country. It is much easier to read this book in 2009 than it would have been in 2004.

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Ruth Eiss

even funny. It supported my idea that mental health professionals ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2017

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The book was enthralling: insightful, courageous, replete with documentation, even funny. It supported my idea that mental health professionals SHOULD lend their credentials in support of a Congressional effort to impeach a man (TRUMP) who is BAD for the country. I wrote to the the good doctor to ask him to write Trump on the Couch. No response yet.

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T. Wells

Absolutely Fascinating

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2006

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This is one of the most fascinating books that I have read this year. Over the past 6 years I have been both concerned and confused regarding President Bush's motivation for making some of the decisions that he has made, and also what motivates him to feel that he is justified in blatantly disregarding the Constitution that has served this Country so well for over 200 years. This is a book that both Bush supporters and critics should take the time to read. We should all use whatever resources available to make an objective evaluation of those issues that will have a lasting impact on us and future generations.

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JAMES ROVNAK

Always new things were never right with him!

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2014

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Isn't it obvious there is something very wrong with this guy! Agree with most everything the book contends! Don't know how he ever got elected or stole the Seat! Worst President ever & he worked hard for this honor, that is when you could find him in the office we all paid to support! To think he live further on our pension fund sort of upsets me. Look how many needless deaths he is responsible for?

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Mcgivern Owen L

BUT!-The Author Is Preacing to the CHOIR!!!

Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2004

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One's opinion of "Bush on the Couch" will be formed solely by the reader's PRIOR viewpoint on the President. BOC is certain to change no opinions, only to harden them. As proof, look at the plethora of one star OR five star ratings below. Whether it is the nation as a whole or the amazon family, this President has deeply divided us! Author Frank's premise is the following: Due to a whole host of family and mental "issues", W should not be reelected. These include: past alcohol abuse with no subsequent counseling (making W a "dry drunk"), his frequent napping, a near total fixation with routine and schedule, the strutting and smirking that indicate grandiosity, dyslexia, the indications of ADHD and/or Tourette's Syndrome, a hard rigidity in belief and an addiction to religion with no apparent regular church attendance. The Bush family's relationships are far too lengthy and strained to be included in a concise review. They are definitely part of the strange W brew. As it says above, the author is preaching to the choir. W haters are encouraged to buy BOC but the invitation and five star rating come with a warning attached: It will take more than a few works like BOC to remove W from the White House. Only a concerted effort from the American people can accomplish that necessary and vital task.

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