A review by eserafina42
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President by Bandy X. Lee

4.0

3.5 stars. Possibly it was the disturbing and depressing subject, possibly the fact that there are several different authors who of necessity repeat certain points, or maybe just that I was constrained by its availability at my library (since it's very much in demand so I could only get it when I was first in the list and also was not able to renew it) - but I feel that there is much more to this book that I got out of it. There are definitely a lot of important insights into various aspects of the "case," including the stressors and characteristics of the society that allows a man such as this to come to power and the effects on the population, particularly vulnerable and marginalized groups - as well as his own personal pathologies. The authors each dealt with the tension between the "Goldwater Rule" and the "duty to warn" in their own ways, which was a wise decision on the part of the editors, in my opinion.