Bush on the Couch

I started reading Bush on the Couch by Justin A. Frank, M. D. Doctor Frank is clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at George Washington University Medical Center.

Frank uses the methods of applied psychiatry to analyze President Bush. Applied psychiatry has been used and pioneered by the CIA to build psychological profiles of world leaders.

The book, highly controversial since first published, presents a picture of President Bush as a person of many unresolved conflicts and dangerous behavioral tendencies, tendencies which may have been made worse by his reelection in 2004. The book is relentless in tracing President Bush's sadistic, paranoid, delusional, and megalomaniac behavior.

Beyond the political and philosophical issues with the Bush Administration, we measure the man in power, as is only natural. Doctor Frank continues a long tradition, one stretching back to the likes of Plutarch, and uses the methods of modern psychiatry for treating patients with mental disturbances. President Bush appears as a person dangerous to the world, not because he is evil, but because he is ill, and his illness continues to go untreated.