Dr.Lee, the book is timely. We need a companion books that sheds light on some of DJT’s key dangerous sociopathic enablers that may succeed in helping get this convicted fascist felon back into the WH.
How about: “The Dangerous Case of Benjamin Netanyahu.”
Perhaps also: “The Dangerous Case Of Joe Biden,” who has embraced and unconditionally supported Bibi’s ‘war’ crimes in occupied Palestine which have metastasized into Lebanon. Biden’s fealty to Zionism may undermine VP Harris’ campaign for president. Harris sycophantic loyalty to Biden may also doom her candidacy and hence our democracy since most Americans seem to support an arms embargo on fascist Israel. How do we explain Biden valuing the lives of colonial settlers in Apartheid Israel more than those of Indigenous Palestinians; it’s in The Case For Palestine, by Dan Kovalik (2024.)
The suggested quick books might explore Biden as an apparent sociopath, lacking empathy for starving men women and children blown to pieces with bombs he made available. The thought of children’s limbs being amputated w/o anesthesia ought to stir greater outrage so I would suggest a oil on the “Dangerous Case of American Fascism: The Psychotic Support for a President Complicit in Genocide.”
Maybe we also need: “The Case for Choosing the Lesser of Two Evils: VP Harris Over a Wannabe Dictator,” both seemingly lacking empathy for Palestinians. Trump holds more animus, but Harris seems unable to support the weapons embargo to adhere to U.S. and International Law. The spread of dysfunction, contagion, in high places that threaten our democracy ought to be of greater interest to mental health professionals.
Write a review and send it to your local paper or favorite magazine. There's a ton of smart people in this substack. This is a good way for us to contribute.
Why isn't the Harris/Walz campaign using this vital truth/book/proof of Trump's Psychopathy, (proven & witnessed by the entire world on Live TV/Jan 6th when he was "WILLING-TO-KILL-BY-PROXY" his own Vice President?
In my view, it'll take a critical mass of excellent psychological analysis and professional consensus/courage to overcome the blacklist. Psychology confuses most people. Being "mentally ill" is not criteria for unfitness. Lincoln's depression made him mentally ill, but perhaps even more fit for the job, so how do we differentiate psychological pain from psychological unfitness?
I believe we have to define mental health as clearly as we define mental illness. As I see it, mental health--mental fitness--requires a love of truth manifesting as honest good-faith with one's self and others. Mental pathology describes love of power manifesting as bad-faith lies with one's self and others. For example, my brother was a hospitalized schizophrenic, but not once in all my dealings with him did I ever feel he lied to me about anything. He was my most trusted friend. For all Lincoln's pain, I don't sense he lied to himself or others.
A difficulty with this analysis is that it assumes the reality of a perhaps asymptotic, absolute truth that is not relative (such as an alternative fact) or supernatural (meaning we find it in nature; i.e. math works.) Now we're dealing with two phenomenon society struggles articulating and understanding: psychology and truth.
In my view, if there's value in the Trump Contagion, it's that it causes all of us to ponder the existence of absolute truth (shared facts and truth); otherwise we're lost.
These are some of the reasons I believe the Harris/Walz campaign is reluctant to buck the New York Times and American Psychiatric Association's blacklist against warning people about the dangers of psychologically unfit famous people. In our society, sociopathic rich people hold all the cards.
Yes, Sociopathic Rich People are the Power-Controlling Puppeteers destroying this world... But when will "We The People" rise up & focus on these Puppeteer Media Moguls/Billionaire Boys Clubs & every other level of organized degenerates that infiltrate every level of society & destroy it? Speaking "truth to power" is useless -- we have to pull down/expose those who call themselves "leaders, experts, professionals-in-charge, etc." of the psychiatric field who lack the morality, strength & integrity to speak the truth about THE MOST dangerous who are mentally ill (yet intellectually "competent") in the DSM: the Sociopaths & Psychopaths who hold the power & the money...
How do we stay healthy in a society that stacks the deck in favor of rich people?
We're mindful to what makes us whole. We do what fulfills without a need to destroy others. I'm reminded of a post Dr. Lee made Feb 9 this year, The Power of Pause, where she writes:
"Few here know of my spiritual practice, either through the martial arts or art, which I use to complement and check my scientific work. The cosmic humility and human compassion these allow, perhaps counterintuitively, make for better science."
Dr. Chandra, a contributor to "The More Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" and who is a member of this substack, recently wrote for Psychology Today, "The 13 "Disses" of Abusive Power, and the Wisdom to Cope. I recommend his work as source for helping us remain healthy as we contend with the challenges we face.
While Charles Manson was not personally involved in murder he was found guilty of murder as the cult leader of the conspiracy. Trump will be found no less guilty and beyond a reasonable doubt by any impartial jury.
Congratulations on this critically important and timely Conference and book, Bandy. A signal, ominous consequence of the media-driven normalizing of Trump’s past -- and now exponentially accelerated deepening -- psychopathological disorder and its mind-numbing and reality-dissociating effects on the public’s mental health is, as in Nazi Germany, to condition and inure Americans to the deleterious mind-set it has helped to instill. The greatest danger of re-empowering Trump with access to the nation’s nuclear weapons launch codes is the severe damage the media has been complicit in inflicting on Americans, namely, the continuing attenuation of the people’s capacity to mobilize moral conscience-based judgment and motivation on behalf of humanity’s freedom and ultimate survival.
#1 New Release in Existential Psychology. lol Love it.
Dr. Lee is zeroing in on a new discipline: Existential Political Psychology. Who's ever dared do it?
Dr.Lee, the book is timely. We need a companion books that sheds light on some of DJT’s key dangerous sociopathic enablers that may succeed in helping get this convicted fascist felon back into the WH.
How about: “The Dangerous Case of Benjamin Netanyahu.”
Perhaps also: “The Dangerous Case Of Joe Biden,” who has embraced and unconditionally supported Bibi’s ‘war’ crimes in occupied Palestine which have metastasized into Lebanon. Biden’s fealty to Zionism may undermine VP Harris’ campaign for president. Harris sycophantic loyalty to Biden may also doom her candidacy and hence our democracy since most Americans seem to support an arms embargo on fascist Israel. How do we explain Biden valuing the lives of colonial settlers in Apartheid Israel more than those of Indigenous Palestinians; it’s in The Case For Palestine, by Dan Kovalik (2024.)
The suggested quick books might explore Biden as an apparent sociopath, lacking empathy for starving men women and children blown to pieces with bombs he made available. The thought of children’s limbs being amputated w/o anesthesia ought to stir greater outrage so I would suggest a oil on the “Dangerous Case of American Fascism: The Psychotic Support for a President Complicit in Genocide.”
Maybe we also need: “The Case for Choosing the Lesser of Two Evils: VP Harris Over a Wannabe Dictator,” both seemingly lacking empathy for Palestinians. Trump holds more animus, but Harris seems unable to support the weapons embargo to adhere to U.S. and International Law. The spread of dysfunction, contagion, in high places that threaten our democracy ought to be of greater interest to mental health professionals.
Mine arrives tomorrow. I would love to see it more widely reported and reviewed on mainstream media.
Write a review and send it to your local paper or favorite magazine. There's a ton of smart people in this substack. This is a good way for us to contribute.
Why isn't the Harris/Walz campaign using this vital truth/book/proof of Trump's Psychopathy, (proven & witnessed by the entire world on Live TV/Jan 6th when he was "WILLING-TO-KILL-BY-PROXY" his own Vice President?
In my view, it'll take a critical mass of excellent psychological analysis and professional consensus/courage to overcome the blacklist. Psychology confuses most people. Being "mentally ill" is not criteria for unfitness. Lincoln's depression made him mentally ill, but perhaps even more fit for the job, so how do we differentiate psychological pain from psychological unfitness?
I believe we have to define mental health as clearly as we define mental illness. As I see it, mental health--mental fitness--requires a love of truth manifesting as honest good-faith with one's self and others. Mental pathology describes love of power manifesting as bad-faith lies with one's self and others. For example, my brother was a hospitalized schizophrenic, but not once in all my dealings with him did I ever feel he lied to me about anything. He was my most trusted friend. For all Lincoln's pain, I don't sense he lied to himself or others.
A difficulty with this analysis is that it assumes the reality of a perhaps asymptotic, absolute truth that is not relative (such as an alternative fact) or supernatural (meaning we find it in nature; i.e. math works.) Now we're dealing with two phenomenon society struggles articulating and understanding: psychology and truth.
In my view, if there's value in the Trump Contagion, it's that it causes all of us to ponder the existence of absolute truth (shared facts and truth); otherwise we're lost.
These are some of the reasons I believe the Harris/Walz campaign is reluctant to buck the New York Times and American Psychiatric Association's blacklist against warning people about the dangers of psychologically unfit famous people. In our society, sociopathic rich people hold all the cards.
Yes, Sociopathic Rich People are the Power-Controlling Puppeteers destroying this world... But when will "We The People" rise up & focus on these Puppeteer Media Moguls/Billionaire Boys Clubs & every other level of organized degenerates that infiltrate every level of society & destroy it? Speaking "truth to power" is useless -- we have to pull down/expose those who call themselves "leaders, experts, professionals-in-charge, etc." of the psychiatric field who lack the morality, strength & integrity to speak the truth about THE MOST dangerous who are mentally ill (yet intellectually "competent") in the DSM: the Sociopaths & Psychopaths who hold the power & the money...
How do we stay healthy in a society that stacks the deck in favor of rich people?
We're mindful to what makes us whole. We do what fulfills without a need to destroy others. I'm reminded of a post Dr. Lee made Feb 9 this year, The Power of Pause, where she writes:
"Few here know of my spiritual practice, either through the martial arts or art, which I use to complement and check my scientific work. The cosmic humility and human compassion these allow, perhaps counterintuitively, make for better science."
Dr. Chandra, a contributor to "The More Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" and who is a member of this substack, recently wrote for Psychology Today, "The 13 "Disses" of Abusive Power, and the Wisdom to Cope. I recommend his work as source for helping us remain healthy as we contend with the challenges we face.
I have ordered this book Thank You! 👌
While Charles Manson was not personally involved in murder he was found guilty of murder as the cult leader of the conspiracy. Trump will be found no less guilty and beyond a reasonable doubt by any impartial jury.
Congratulations on this critically important and timely Conference and book, Bandy. A signal, ominous consequence of the media-driven normalizing of Trump’s past -- and now exponentially accelerated deepening -- psychopathological disorder and its mind-numbing and reality-dissociating effects on the public’s mental health is, as in Nazi Germany, to condition and inure Americans to the deleterious mind-set it has helped to instill. The greatest danger of re-empowering Trump with access to the nation’s nuclear weapons launch codes is the severe damage the media has been complicit in inflicting on Americans, namely, the continuing attenuation of the people’s capacity to mobilize moral conscience-based judgment and motivation on behalf of humanity’s freedom and ultimate survival.
I'm waiting for the Audible version here in China
Ordered, arrives 10/6 they say. Very much looking forward to reading it