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A landmark e book from "one of the world's most visible psychiatrists" (The Atlantic, June 2017): Eminent psychiatrist Allen Frances analyzes the national psyche, looking at the climb of Donald J. Trump as darkly symptomatic of any deeper societal distress. Similarly challenging and deep, Twilight of North american Sanity makes sense of our own time and charts the way onward. It is comforting to see Leader Donald Trump as a crazy man, a one-off, an exemption - not a representation on us or our democracy. However in ways I never predicted, his climb was absolutely predictable and a mirror on our heart.... Exactly what does it say about us, that people elected someone so manifestly unfit and unprepared to ascertain mankind's future? Trump is an indicator of a global in distress, not its only cause. Blaming him for many our troubles misses the deeper, root societal sickness that permitted his unlikely ascent. Dialling Trump crazy allows us to avoid confronting the craziness in our society - if we want to get sane, we should first gain understanding about ourselves. Simply put: Trump isn't crazy, but our society is. (from Twilight of North american Sanity) More than 3 years in the making: the world's leading expert on psychiatric prognosis, past leader of the North american Psychiatric Association's DSM ("the bible of psychology"), and writer of the influential international best seller on the medicalization of standard life, Cutting down Normal, draws after his huge experience to deliver a powerful critique of modern American society's collective glide away from sanity and will be offering an urgently needed prescription for reclaiming our bearings. Widely cited lately as the man who quite literally composed the diagnostic criteria for narcissism, Allen Frances, MD, has been at the guts of the issue surrounding Leader Trump's mental state - quoted in Evan Osnos' May 2017 New Yorker article ("How Trump Could Get Fired") and submitting a much-shared opinion notice in the New York Times ("An Eminent Psychiatrist Demurs on Trump's STATE OF MIND"). Frances argues that Trump is "bad not mad" - that the true question to wrestle with is how we as a country might well have chosen him as our leader. To answer this, Frances appears deeply at the American history and present. Twilight of North american Sanity can be an essential benefit understanding our national crisis.
