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Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump (2017. Auflage)

von Allen Frances (Autor)

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"Unravel[s] the national psyche that brought our politics to this moment." -- Evan Osnos, The New Yorker A landmark book, from "one of the world's most prominent psychiatrists" (The Atlantic): Allen Frances analyzes the nation, viewing the rise of Donald J. Trump as darkly symptomatic of a deeper societal distress that must be understood if we are to move forward. Equally challenging and profound, Twilight of American Sanity "joins a small shelf of essential titles--Arlie Hochschild's Strangers in Their Own Land is another--that help explain why and how the Trump presidency happened" (Kirkus). 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 allows us to avoid confronting the craziness in our society--if we want to get sane, we must first gain insight about ourselves. Simply put: Trump isn't crazy, but our society is. --from TWILIGHT OF AMERICAN SANITY More than three years in the making: the world's leading expert on psychiatric diagnosis, past leader of the American Psychiatric Association's DSM ("the bible of psychology"), and author of the influential international bestseller on the medicalization of ordinary life, Saving Normal, draws upon his vast experience to deliver a powerful critique of modern American society's collective slide away from sanity and offers an urgently needed prescription for reclaiming our bearings. Widely cited in recent months as the man who quite literally wrote the diagnostic criteria for narcissism, Allen Frances, M.D., has been at the center of the debate surrounding President Trump's mental state--quoted in Evan Osnos's May 2017 New Yorker article ("How Trump Could Get Fired") and publishing a much-shared opinion letter in the New York Times ("An Eminent Psychiatrist Demurs on Trump's Mental State"). Frances argues that Trump is "bad, not mad"--and that the real question to wrestle with is how we as a country could have chosen him as our leader. Twilight of American Sanity is an essential work for understanding our national crisis.… (mehr)
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Titel:Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump
Autoren:Allen Frances (Autor)
Info:William Morrow (2017), Edition: 1st Edition, 1st Printing., 336 pages
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The iniquity of the fathers will be visited on the children and the children's children, to the third and fourth generation. -Exodus
As democracy is perfected, the office of the president, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. -H.L. Mencken
A human being is part of a whole, called by us "universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thought and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening of circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. -Albert Eistein
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With belated thanks to to Joe Frances - my late (and, in his humble way, great) father, who taught me how to see through blowhards like Trump and how simple it is to be happy.
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Prologue - Insanity in individuals in somewhat rare. But in groups, parties, nations and epochs , it is the rule. -Friedrich Nieztsche
Chapter 1 - We met the enemy and they is us. -Pogo
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There are three harmful unintended consequences of using psychiatric tools to discredit Trump. First, lumping him with the mentally ill stigmatizes them more than it embarrasses him. Most mentally ill people are well behaved and well meaning, both of which Trump decidedly is not. Second, medicalizing Trump’s bad behavior underestimates him and distracts attention from the dangers of his policies. Trump is a political problem, not meat for psychoanalysis. Instead of focusing on Trump’s motivations, we must counter his behaviors with political tools. And, third, were Trump to be removed from office, his successors (Pence and Ryan) would probably be much worse—more plausible purveyors of his very dangerous policies.
Previous civilizations have all mindlessly followed the same depressing cycle of rapid growth and sudden collapse. The tragic mistakes they made then are precisely the mistakes we are making now. Learning from the past is the only way to ensure that our civilization will survive into the future.
In both individual and societal delusions, there is the same denial of intruding reality and the same rush to replace it with persecutory blaming, grandiose posturing, and a false sense of being admired.
Billionaire Trump posed as a champion of the little guy before the election and has become their biggest exploiter since. If Trump’s policy and tax proposals are all implemented, a previously unfair system favoring the superrich will be even more unfair. Trump’s effort to trim hundreds of billions of dollars from medical care is directly linked to his plans to give an equivalent tax break mostly to the relatively rich. His large increases in military and infrastructure expenditures favor giant corporations and their executives and shareholders. Trump’s enormous budget deficit will add to the national debt burden, paid mostly by average taxpayers and mostly evaded by high rollers (most notably, Trump himself). The greedy are further served. The needy are further screwed. This is morally wrong and politically dangerous.
The health industry is by far the biggest source of lobbying gravy at more than $240 million a year. The insurance industry comes in second at $160 million. To give some sense of scale, the energy industry (no slouch when it comes to purchasing political influence) is the third-biggest lobby at $150 million.
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"Unravel[s] the national psyche that brought our politics to this moment." -- Evan Osnos, The New Yorker A landmark book, from "one of the world's most prominent psychiatrists" (The Atlantic): Allen Frances analyzes the nation, viewing the rise of Donald J. Trump as darkly symptomatic of a deeper societal distress that must be understood if we are to move forward. Equally challenging and profound, Twilight of American Sanity "joins a small shelf of essential titles--Arlie Hochschild's Strangers in Their Own Land is another--that help explain why and how the Trump presidency happened" (Kirkus). 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 allows us to avoid confronting the craziness in our society--if we want to get sane, we must first gain insight about ourselves. Simply put: Trump isn't crazy, but our society is. --from TWILIGHT OF AMERICAN SANITY More than three years in the making: the world's leading expert on psychiatric diagnosis, past leader of the American Psychiatric Association's DSM ("the bible of psychology"), and author of the influential international bestseller on the medicalization of ordinary life, Saving Normal, draws upon his vast experience to deliver a powerful critique of modern American society's collective slide away from sanity and offers an urgently needed prescription for reclaiming our bearings. Widely cited in recent months as the man who quite literally wrote the diagnostic criteria for narcissism, Allen Frances, M.D., has been at the center of the debate surrounding President Trump's mental state--quoted in Evan Osnos's May 2017 New Yorker article ("How Trump Could Get Fired") and publishing a much-shared opinion letter in the New York Times ("An Eminent Psychiatrist Demurs on Trump's Mental State"). Frances argues that Trump is "bad, not mad"--and that the real question to wrestle with is how we as a country could have chosen him as our leader. Twilight of American Sanity is an essential work for understanding our national crisis.

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