Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President...chilling...

[bridgit]

'As the author clearly details, Bush’s dominant worldview of competitiveness, coldness and restless anxiety bordering on paranoia have led him to where we stand now in history – in a quagmire of a war in Iraq, poverty on the rise at home, and on the brink of environmental collapse. All of these issues seem distant, even unimportant, to Bush, the man, who seems to have no capability of feeling the pain and suffering of others, or even recognizing and fixing his own mistakes. As the author deftly points out, Bush’s inability to take responsibility for his actions and his illusions of omnipotence and grandeur have led him and our nation on a disastrous path. This is a man who laughed when he executed dozens as Texas governor, including a born-again Christian woman who pleaded for forgiveness. So much for a culture of life.' http://www.curledup.com/bushhead.htm

'If one of my patients frequently said one thing and did another, I would want to know why. If I found that he often used words that hid their true meaning, and affected a persona that obscured the nature of his actions, I would grow more concerned. If he presented an inflexible worldview characterized by an oversimplified distinction between right and wrong, good and evil, allies and enemies, I would question his ability to grasp reality. And if his actions revealed an unacknowledged – even sadistic – indifference to human suffering, wrapped in pious claims of compassion, I would worry about the safety of the people whose lives he touched.' http://hnn.us/articles/7106.html

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060736704/102-4522798-9537767?v=glance&n=283155

head's up America, the President of the United States of America, is a mid...to high level charismatic sociopath :thumbsdown:

[omega minimo]

1. Charismatic?

:puke:

The author was on Randi Rhodes show. Chilling indeed.

[bridgit]

7. oh yes, that inclusion was mine = of, relating to, or being a type of...

...Christianity that emphasizes personal religious experience and divinely inspired powers, as of healing, prophecy, and the gift of tongues

[Octafish]

2. Psycho with Nukes

Houston. We've got problems.

Two Psychiatrists Look at the Bush Administration

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A summary by Jack Dresser, Ph.D., with selected excerpts from two books:
Bush on the Couch by Justin A. Frank, M.D.
Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, George Washington University
and
The Superpower Syndrome by Robert Jay Lifton, M.D.
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Harvard University

Psychiatrist Jerrold Post, M.D., founder of the CIA’s Center for the Analysis of Personality and Political Behavior, stated, “the leader who cannot adapt to external realities because he adheres to an internally programmed life script...has displaced his private needs upon the state.” Applied psychoanalysis is a discipline used routinely by intelligence agencies since early in World War II to identify such distortions and predict political behavior through psychological profiles of foreign leaders. Although lacking the data of direct doctor-patient interaction, such analyses have far greater external data available to draw upon. Dr. Frank has applied these methods to George W. Bush. Dr. Lifton focuses on the theme of grandiosity and unresolved personal self-doubt projected into our foreign policy.

A Sense of Entitlement

A lifelong “sense of entitlement” has been exhibited by Mr. Bush, described by Washington psychoanalyst Justin Frank. Dr. Frank has published a comprehensive study of Mr. Bush’s personality, based upon his many public statements, public actions, and the historical record provided by biographers, journalists, and others who have known him well and observed him closely over many years. Specifically, Mr. Bush feels and acts entitled to disregard the laws, rules and expectations governing ordinary people.

SNIP...

Aggression and Cruelty

This is a lifelong pattern. As a child, little George blew up frogs with firecrackers inserted into their bodies. Lacking scholastic and athletic abilities, he used unkind teasing in school. In college, he hazed new fraternity pledges with branding irons on the buttocks. As Governor he mocked death-row inmates and smirked at their executions. As a political campaigner, he relies heavily on smug ridicule and mockery of opponents.

The smirk – one of Mr. Bush’s characteristic expressions that has worried his political handlers – is a telltale indication of sadism. It reveals pleasure in inflicting or observing pain, defeat or discomfort in others while attempting to suppress more overt and unbecoming expressions of his pleasure. He is a profoundly angry, destructive man who, in Dr. Frank’s words, “needs to break things.”

SNIP...

Untreated alcoholism.

Mr. Bush displays common characteristics of a “dry drunk,” struggling to protect self-esteem and cope with anxiety without the liquid crutch. Symptoms include inflated self-confidence, judgmental intolerance, denial of responsibility, avoidance of introspection, simplistic thinking, and compulsive daily habits that remove him from responsibility and stress. Without treatment, the alcohol is removed without the “ism.” Instead, self-esteem is now protected by his born-again Christianity, which permits escape from accountability for his past while avoiding the self-examination and restitution of a 12-step program. Many of his actions are “dry” efforts to reduce anxiety by avoiding his inner world. In Dr. Frank’s words, “Throughout his life, George W. Bush has taken many detours from the path to self-knowledge.”

SNIP...

The Overall Diagnosis: Megalomania \

“The evidence suggests that behind Bush’s exterior operates a powerful but obscure delusional system that drives his behavior,” concludes Dr. Frank. Omnipotence and grandiosity are clearly reflected in Mr. Bush’s identification with God’s purposes and his flouting of international opinion and international will. Omnipotent fantasy is a self-esteem protecting mechanism from early childhood, outgrown in normal development that Mr. Bush lacked. This childish omnipotence is identified and described by both authors.

CONTINUED...

http://www.squadron13.com/JackDresser/psychoanalysis.htm

Great post, bridgit! Much obliged for the insight and the warning.

[bridgit]

8. firecrackers up the asses of animals...at the age of 10-11; any age...

for that matter :wtf: i think his handlers, the people who picked him; knew perfectly well that he was thee embodiment of just the kind of psycho they needed to carry out their human end-game = a shit talking little square of texas toilet paper

[Jigarotta]

24. purposely groomed to be an uncaring nasty freak.

I can dig that.

[bridgit]

26. i think that is the operative here...

x(

[seemslikeadream]

12. Is like licking honey off a knife

:hi:

AMERIMACKA

Miss Liberty turn inna Jezzabelle
All de dreams you go sell, de whole dem turn inna hell
Her bed of roses are filled with thorns
Her righteous robes are tattered and torn

If she had only stood for love
That would have been enough
She wouldn’t have to hide her shame
If she had only stood for love
That would have been enough
But now she’s burnt us all with her flames

Amerimacka
Oh what a beautiful life
Amerimacka
Is like licking honey off a knife

Amerimacka
Oh what a beautiful sight
Amerimacka
Oh what a beautiful life

The land of the free built on slavery
Our consciousness in captivity
The promise land is the liar’s den
Your culture of greed has got to end

Now we’re laying in the mud
Looking up above
Tear water just ah drop from the sky
They try to keep us in the mud
Separating us from love
But me nah go let dem conquer de I

Amerimacka
Oh what a beautiful life
Amerimacka
Is like licking honey off a knife

Amerimacka
Oh what a beautiful sight
Amerimacka
Oh what a beautiful life

Thievery Corporation

[Digit]

3. K&R

[EricWhitaker]

4. In other words

...he's Micheal Jackson without the weird nose

The "boy who refused to grow up/old"

A dimwitted Peter Pan

[bridgit]

11. welcome to du, EricWhitaker...

:hi: :kick:

[cliss]

5. yes, absolutely chilling.

I've read this before the DU, but we should be re-posting this, just to make sure everyone gets a chance to read it.

It makes your blood run cold in their veins, when you realize who is at the helm.

[bridgit]

9. a little something for what was memorial day as it were...

:hi:

[mcctatas]

6. Well since Barbara is the woman of whom tricky dick nixon said....

"That woman knows how to hate", I would say this is a clear case of nature and nurture combining to form the perfect combination of evil, narcissism, hubris and stupidity necessary to finally bring about the end of the world!!! :smoke:

[bridgit]

10. and she carries every CRACK of it in her face, she is hateful beyond...

the pale..."beautiful mind" :wtf: she is a walking talking picture of dorian grey

[exlrrp]

13. Inside the mind of Bush......

Goshh its dark in here--isn't there any light??? It feels empty, except for all these old beer bottles.

[gauguin57]

14. ... and empty coke packets ...

dick? laura? where am i? WHO am I? Why am I living in this big white house?

[bridgit]

15. only homo-erotic narcissism it would appear...

x(

[Avalux]

16. Yep - he is. And we are all in danger because of it.

Remember, this man has the ability to launch a nuclear assault and he would do it without regard for human lives - if he though t would serve his purposes.

[bdamomma]

17. here's another chilling analysis of this maniac

I wish everyone would read this, make copies of it, and leave it somewhere.

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/interviews/2006/3314justin_frank.html

it is an interview.

bush is a very sick man.

[bridgit]

19. as i think i'd mentioned up thread, his handlers knew just how...

disassociated he was from the Gitmo, they knew he'd saunter out there and say anything, sign anuthing, do anything they wanted him to do just so long as they threw in a "nice shot, mr. president..." somewhere in the mix; 'they' had been watching him since childhood is my greater suspicion, and they felt they had to install him here & now to perform their greater of nefarious plans knowing he would ask no questions so long as he had a fresh bag of pretzels

[Bucky]

18. Articles like this make me glad Cheney's on the job.

Simple greed and evil are somehow comforting thoughts if they're in a position to control the deeper sickness of Bush.

[bridgit]

20. i do appreciate your humor, while it is true imo as well; this bush guy...

is in contiguous need of parental control

[WinkyDink]

21. I've touted it on DU for AGES!

It is THE best insight to Bush I've ever read.
And makes it easy to PREDICT his moves.

[El Fuego]

22. I'm sure it's a big, empty place.

This was interesting: "...he regularly introduces Vice President Cheney as the greatest vice president in history, without mentioning that his father was VP for eight years."

[bridgit]

23. there'ya go, El Fuego, too true...

:spray:

[Jara sang]

25. Bush is a psychopath

[bridgit]

27. that is my position as well...