Crossposted at My Left Wing
Imagine traveling as a kid with your family. Your violent dad is driving. And he's drunk. What do you do? What I did was shut my eyes, curl up into a ball on the backseat floor and try to go to sleep.
Is that what we as a country are now doing about a president who is careening destructively across the globe and may be insane? Sometimes it seems so.
Dr. Justin Frank, an experienced expert in psychoanalysis and a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at George Washington University Medical Center, wrote the book Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, published in 2004. It is a fascinating and disturbing study. Dr. Frank cautiously concluded in his book that Bush is a megalomaniac. His conclusion seemed a little understated to me at the time. In a recent interview with Buzzflash Dr. Frank updates his observations and acknowledges that Bush may be a sociopath.
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