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A review by baconsaur
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President by Bandy X. Lee
informative
sad
medium-paced
4.0
This was very upsetting to read as it was published 7 years ago and is as relevant as ever. The book is best summed by James Gilligan, MD’s essay’s title, “The Issue is Dangerousness. Not Mental Illness,” though the following quote from Edwin B Fisher’s The Loneliness of Fateful Decisions is as pertinent as ever, again, SEVEN YEARS LATER:
“It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about President Trump‘s inability to do either [i.e. think and speak clearly]. This seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability. It is not merely the result of intellectual sloth but of an untrained mind bereft of information and married to stratospheric self-confidence…
His fathomless lack of interest in America’s path to the present and his limitless gullibility leave him susceptible to being blown about by gusts of factoids that cling like lint to a disorderly mind.”
“It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about President Trump‘s inability to do either [i.e. think and speak clearly]. This seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability. It is not merely the result of intellectual sloth but of an untrained mind bereft of information and married to stratospheric self-confidence…
His fathomless lack of interest in America’s path to the present and his limitless gullibility leave him susceptible to being blown about by gusts of factoids that cling like lint to a disorderly mind.”