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Over the years, I have devoted a certain amount of time and effort to reading the Iliad and teaching it. In the opening, the poet (known as Homer) invokes the Muse to help him sing, to musical accompaniment, about the wrath of King Achilles.In all honesty, I find King Achilles more interesting to talk about than Trump – whose wrath is often expressed in tweets (by contrast, King Achilles expresses his wrath at times in carefully articulated speeches). I do not know if the psychiatrist and Kleinian psychoanalyst Justin A. Frank, M.D., is familiar with the wrath of King Achilles. But Dr. Frank has studied the wrath of Trump to the best of his ability in his new book Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President (New York: Avery/ Penguin Random House, 2018).Even though Dr. Frank’s book is prose, his muse, figuratively speaking, is the British Freudian psychoanalyst and psychological theorist Melanie Klein (1882-1960). So we can think of Dr. Frank as the singer of tales, figuratively speaking, singing about the wrath of Trump.However, Sigmund Freud has been quoted as referring to “His majesty, the baby.” So we can think of his majesty King Donald as Dr. Frank’s prose counterpart to King Achilles – and of the wrath of Baby Donald as the prose counterpart of the wrath of King Achilles.Dr. Frank’s new book should be extremely valuable not only to our international enemies but also to our international allies as they profile President Donald J. Trump and try to figure out how to play him to their own advantage. In the spirit of giving credit where credit is due, Trump profiles foreign leaders in his own way and uses an abundance of flattery with certain foreign leaders as he tries to play them to his advantage.Basically, Dr. Frank’s book-length profiling of Trump is similar in spirit to the FBI profiling of serial killers portrayed in the CBS television show Criminal Minds – the 300th episode of which is schedule to air on October 3, 2018. The FBI agents in the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) use the documented evidence from the crimes as evidence of the unidentified perpetrator’s behavior in committing each crime. From the perpetrator’s behavior, the BAU agents construct a psychoanalysis of the perpetrator. The profile they construct helps them identify characteristics of the perpetrator and thereby narrow down their search for the criminal in question. Similarly, Dr. Frank uses published biographies of Trump and other published material about him to construct his psychoanalysis of Trump.Dr. Frank has previously published similar books about two previous presidents of the United States:(1) Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, 2nd ed. (New York: Harper, 2007; orig. ed., 2004);(2) Obama on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President (New York: Free Press/ Simon & Schuster, 2011).An overview of Dr. Frank’s book Trump on the Couch is in order here. It includes the following parts:(1) an introduction (pages xiii-xxiii);(2) a chapter on President Trump’s mother (pages 3-26);(3) a chapter on his father (pages 27-54);(4) a chapter on his older brother (pages 55-69);(5) a chapter on his rivals (pages 71-88);(6) a chapter on the psychology of his lying (pages 91-115);(7) a chapter on the psychology of his narcissism (pages 117-137);(8) a chapter on the psychology of his destructiveness (pages 139-165);(9) a chapter on the psychology of his racism (pages 167-183);(10) a chapter on the psychology of his sexism and misogyny (pages 185-202);(11) a chapter on his dyslexia (pages 203-226);(12) a concluding chapter titled “The End of the Beginning” (pages 227-237);(13) a glossary of Trump-specific psychoanalytic terminology used in the book (pages 239-257);(14) a bibliography (pages 259-263);(15) acknowledgments (pages 265-270);(16) an index (pages (271-279).In the bibliography (page 260), Dr. Frank includes Richard Hofstadter’s 1963 book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, but not Hofstadter’s 1965 book The Paranoid Style in American Politics: And Other Essays. However, according to the index in Dr. Frank’s book (page 276), he discusses paranoia on pages xxi, 48, 150, 151, 154, 173, 217, 224, and 232. Dr. Frank also does not include Eric Hoffer’s pertinent 1951 book The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements.(Disclosure: in the acknowledgments [page 268], Dr. Frank thanks me for sending him links to articles in the New York Times. However, I have never met him in person.)The glossary includes Trump-specific entries about the following technical terminology in the book:(1) containment (pages 239-241);(2) displacement (page 241);(3) dissociation (pages 241-242);(4) dyslexia (pages 242-243);(5) envy (pages 243-244);(6) grandiosity (pages 244-245);(7) hyperbole (page 245);(8) idealization (pages 245-246);(9) identification (pages 246);(10) object (pages 246-247);(11) persecution (pages 247-248);(12) preconception (page 248);(13) projection (page 249);(14) regression (page 249);(15) repetition compulsion (pages 250-251);(16) sadism (page 251);(17) splitting (pages 251-252);(18) transference and counter-transference (pages 252-256);(19) unconscious (pages 256-257).Because the glossary entries contain key Trump-specific information, I would suggest that most readers should begin by reading the glossary.I especially like Dr. Frank’s glossary entry on idealization, which is worth quoting in full here:“Idealization is the product of extreme splitting, beyond the simple internal world of good and bad, and into one that is ideal and awful. It transforms the perception of reality into something better; it may lay dormant in the unconscious and emerge when one falls in love or has a baby. Just as lovers see themselves – their best selves – in another, the electorate usually idealizes their candidate for higher office. Thus, Ann Coulter sounded like a betrayed lover when Trump signed a budget that didn’t include funding for the wall he promised her. When people feel understood by a leader – or by a therapist – they idealize that person. Trump’s base felt that he understood their frustration and pent-up rage, so they idealized him more than any American president in decades. He promised to ‘drain the swamp’ and destroy the self-centered elites. They [Trump’s supporters, not the self-centered elites] idealized him so much that he said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose a vote, and no one corrected or contradicted him. They loved him: never have there been such long lines at campaign rallies as there were at Trump’s. He tapped into unconscious recall of the infant’s love for the parent, who can magically understand the child even before he has words” (pages 245-246).The supposedly “self-centered elites” presumably gained their elite status at least in part through their intellectual credentials. For this reason, Trump’s campaign against so-called elites can be seen as an example of the anti-intellectualism that Hofstadter writes about in his 1963 book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, mentioned above.Another byproduct of Trump’s supporters’ idealization of him is that sexual allegations against him did not influence his supporters – he was Teflon, and sexual allegations rolled off him as a result of their idealization of him.As Dr. Frank explains, “the electorate usually idealizes their candidate for higher office” – so that the candidate, for his or her idealizing supporters, is Teflon. However, as Dr. Frank mentions, “no one corrected or contradicted [Trump]” when “he said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose a vote [from his most ardent supporters].” Granted, such hyperbole is not unusual for Trump. Nevertheless, what he is saying hyperbolically about his most ardent supporters is extraordinary – and it is also extraordinary that “no one corrected or contradicted him” despite the extraordinary hyperbole of his claim.Now, just as we form the words “idealization” and “idealizing” from the word “ideal” in the baby’s extreme paranoid splitting of his or her sense of the world “into one that is ideal and awful,” as Dr. Frank describes, so too we can use the word “awful” to form the words “awfulization” and “awfulizing.” Trump campaigned on awfulizing not just “the self-centered elites” that Dr. Frank mentions, but also “crooked Hillary” and the allegedly awful worldview of “political correctness” that former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton symbolically represents -- and the allegedly awful “swamp” in the expression “drain the swamp” that Dr. Frank also mentions.Simply stated, Trump campaigned on an apocalyptic sense of our contemporary American cultural and political life-world – and presented himself as the savior figure who would save his followers from the further torments of “crooked Hillary” and her allied “politically correct” tormentors. Thus, in a certain way, Trump echoed ancient Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature – and the tradition of American jeremiads that Sacvan Bercovitch discusses in his book The American Jeremiad, 2nd ed. (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012; orig. ed., 1978). In short, Trump appealed to his followers’ paranoid tendencies. I should point out here that throughout human history, our human ancestors tended to be paranoid.As to Trump’s implied claim of being a savior (the only one who can fix things, according to him), he as president can deliver certain campaign promises – or at least claim that he has delivered certain campaign promises. For example, President Trump can reverse President Barack Obama’s executive orders, and President Trump can nominate conservatives to fill positions on the U.S. Supreme Court. But can he deliver enough to satisfy his most ardent supporters – like Ann Coulter? In general, Trump’s most ardent supporters, including Ann Coulter, are examples of what Eric Hoffer refers to as “true believers” in his 1951 book The True Believer, mentioned above.However that may be, I wish that Dr. Frank had also defined and explained the term “anxiety” in the glossary – and the related term “anxious.” In the concluding chapter, he says that “anxiety, though unpleasant, is not something we have to run away from. Anxiety is a source of information, and in that respect is a responsibility as well” (page 236).I suspect that I have experienced what he refers to as anxiety, but I probably thought I was experiencing fear and trepidation, but not so strong as to trigger all-out panic. So what exactly is the difference between the subjective experience of fear and trepidation, and the subjective experience of anxiety?Regardless of whatever exactly anxiety means, the Canadian Jesuit philosopher and theologian Bernard Lonergan claims that feelings reveal values to us – assuming that we reflect on our feelings perceptively to discern the values they are revealing to us.Similarly, the American philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum refers to the “intelligence of emotions” – in the subtitle of her book Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (Cambridge University Press, 2001) -- assuming that we pause and reflect on the intelligence our emotions are communicating to us.Now, Dr. Frank says, “This book is a call to action for all Americans, because Trump reminds us what happens when anxiety is denied or ignored. He is consumed and misled by a lifetime of unprocessed, unacknowledged anxiety, which has no doubt been exacerbated by the power and responsibility of his office. Trump challenges us to avoid making the same mistakes. The work begun in this book must continue” (page 237).I would urge readers to take Dr. Frank’s book as a call to action in the sense of undertaking the action to reflect on their own lives as they read his chapters. After all, even though Freud used the masculine pronoun, he clearly did not mean to exclude female babies from his famous quip. We humans are all born as babies, and we start our lives in a relationship with our mothers (or mother-figures), just as baby Donald did. Usually, we also form a relationship with our fathers (or father figures). Oftentimes, we have brothers and sisters, and we form relationships with them as well. Consequently, as we read Dr. Frank’s book about Trump, we should try to compare our life experiences with his – our “inner” Trump, as it were – as Dr. Frank himself suggests we should (page 231).Finally, on the television show Criminal Minds, when a serial killer appears to be escalating, the FBI agents refer to him or her as “devolving.” This word caught my attention because it is not a word I usually use, but I will now use this terminology here.Now, in the Iliad, King Achilles is portrayed at a certain juncture as going on a killing spree (that the terminology the FBI agents in Criminal Minds use), killing Trojans left and right after he has made his fateful decision to re-enter the war. His decision to re-enter the war is fateful because he has been told by his goddess-mother that if he re-enters the war, he will never return home alive. But despite this certain knowledge, King Achilles decides to re-enter the war – and then he goes on his killing spree. In the terminology of the FBI agents in Criminal Minds, we might say that he devolves. Nevertheless, later on, when King Priam somehow secretly enters King Achilles’ camp to request the body of his dead son Hector so that he can receive a proper hero’s funeral inside the walls of Troy, King Achilles grants King Priam his son’s body for the funeral. Thus, King Achilles does not completely devolve (to use the terminology the FBI agents in Criminal Minds use).In effect, Dr. Frank is alerting us to the possibility that President Trump could devolve – that is, he could get worse. I know, I know, he’s bad enough as it is. But he could get worse. But could he possibly somehow get better – even by a wee bit? Dr. Frank doesn’t think so – not even by a wee bit. In short, Dr. Frank sees Trump as effectively locked in place, except for the possibility that he could devolve and get worse.

Dr. Frank covers well-rehearsed ground in this book, albeit with a Kleinian psychoanalytic perspective. What's missing is a solid analysis of Trump's followers. Why do so many people support a President who even they say they don't believe most of the time? Frank limits his comments about the mass psychology of trumpism to a few passing remarks. He does mention the "genuine grievances [they have] with Washington elites" as well as the "real and passionate feelings of dislocation and impotence to which Trump has given voice." Otherwise no light is thrown on why nearly half the electorate worships a man who jokes that he could kill them in public. Admittedly this is a book about Trump on the couch, but until we understand more about the group psychology of his millions of followers, we will have to wait for time to heal all wounds.

I just finished reading Trump on the Couch by Justin Frank. It is excellent, although if you’re hostile to the building blocks of Freudian analysis, you may find yourself rolling your eyes now and then. But all in all, it’s a pretty comprehensive look at Trump as a psychoanalytic subject, by a guy who knows what he’s talking about.I wish Frank had written a bit more about Trump as a father. There were a few references to his inappropriate fixation on Ivanka, and young Barron is mentioned en passant, but I don’t think Tiffany or the older boys are even named, let alone discussed; I think there’s some good fodder there. Also, I would like to have seen some discussion of Trump’s body language, facial grimaces, and odd gestures. Apart from those omissions, though, I found it a useful and sobering read. Highly recommended.

I am reading this for the second time. It’s challenging because of its academic language and psychological discussion but gives insight into Trump’s highly unusual personality traits. So in short it’s worth the effort if you can follow his presentation. I decided that I needed to read it a second time to fully process what he was saying about Trump. Before buying it, I advise potential buyers to download the sample to see how difficult it might be for them to read.

This is a must read to understand what is happening politically!

So much of the Trump commentary is by random talking heads. It's nice to listen to an actual expert in psychiatry on the subject. The insights are powerful and insightful.

This is a very Freudian analysis of Trump it also has insight into his behavior. Linguistics explains his speech patterns.

This is a book EVERY American should read! Very helpful in trying to understand this president!

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