Frances - Twilight of American Sanity; a Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump (2017)
epub | 1.82 MB | English | Author :Allen Frances | B015CYCI6C | 2017 | HarperCollins

Book Description :

A landmark book, from "one of the world's most prominent psychiatrists" (The Atlantic, June 2017): Eminent psychiatrist Allen Frances analyzes the national psyche, viewing the rise of Donald J. Trump as darkly symptomatic of a deeper societal distress. Equally challenging and profound, Twlilight of American Sanity makes sense of our time and charts the way forward.
It is comforting to see President Donald Trump as a crazy man, a one-off, an exception-not a reflection on us or our democracy. But in ways I never anticipated, his rise was absolutely predictable and a mirror on our soul. ... What does it say about us, that we elected someone so manifestly unfit and unprepared to determine mankind's future? Trump is a symptom of a world in distress, not its sole cause. Blaming him for all our troubles misses the deeper, underlying societal sickness that made possible his unlikely ascent. Calling Trump crazy allo us to avoid confronting the craziness in our...

Category : | Personality Disorders, Emotions & Mental Health, Civics