Rx for W: Electoral Surgery - an exploration of Bush's psyche

[TacticalPeek]

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Rx for W: Electoral Surgery

By Richard Leiby
Thursday, June 10, 2004; Page C03

We can assure you nobody will be caught perusing this book in the White House. "Bush on the Couch," authored by a longtime Washington psychiatrist who has never met or treated the president, offers "an exploration of Bush's psyche" that delves into such touchy topics as his baby sister's death, his relationship with his mother and father and his drinking history.

In the book, to be released Tuesday, Justin A. Frank, a clinical professor at George Washington University Medical Center, claims President Bush exhibits "sadistic tendencies" and suffers from "character pathology," including "grandiosity" and "megalomania" -- viewing himself, America and God as interchangeable. Frank told us yesterday that his opinions are based on publicly available materials, adding, "I've never met the president or any members of his family."

A Democrat who once headed the Washington chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Frank concludes in the book: "Our sole treatment option -- for his benefit and for ours -- is to remove President Bush from office . . . before it is too late."

Frank, who has practiced for 35 years, told us he began noting Bush's mannerisms in the fall of 2002. "I was really very unsettled by him and I started watching everything he did and reading what he wrote, and watching him on videotape. I felt he was disturbed." In the book, he writes that Bush "fits the profile of a former drinker whose alcoholism has been arrested but not treated."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30085-2004Jun10.html

[arwalden]

1. FINALLY An Authoritative Voice, Instead Of Our Amateur Armchair Analysises

that explains the warped inner workings of the pussbag's brains. (and I use the term "brains" with reservation.)

[TahitiNut]

2. Unsurprisingly, it matches our less-informed diagnoses.

The creature is pathological - Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

[arwalden]

4. I Wonder If There Is Anything About His Lack Of Intelligence And...

his inability and lack of desire (read: laziness) and the fact that he's totally uninformed and incurious about the world around him.

We all know that his vocabulary and command of the English language is sub-standard and about par with that of a 5th grader... So I wonder if he's aware of it himself--and if he is, does he care? And if not, why not?

Consider also: His odd speech patterns, and odd way of reading, and his strained pronunciations and over-pronunciations, his facial contortions, his inability to recall people's names and place names --- Are these things also related to his personality disorder?

[Warpy]

6. Well, there are two things at work here.

One is that it takes a certain level of competence to recognize whether or not one is competent. Check out http://www.lingsoft.fi/~reriksso/competence.html I think you'll be able to apply the article more widely than just to Bush.

Superimposed on this is damage from years of heavy alcohol abuse. No, he has obviously received no treatment. Yes, he does have significant danage that will explain everything you cited. Check out http://www.healthcentral.com/mhc/top/000771.cfm for a description of the damage.

If this combo aint Bush, what is?

[arwalden]

7. ALSO... Are His Supporters Aware Of How Dumb He Really Is?

Or do they simply not care because he's a Republican in the White House and he's not Clinton and that's all that matters.

Are the members of his cabinet aware that they work for a man-child? Are they blind, do they not care... or do they roll their eyes and giggle amongst themselves in private.

I'd almost feel sorry for what Dr. Rice must go through in her private tutoring sessions... but I don't. I'd love to hide behind the sofa and listen to her trying to explain things to him and helping him to rehearse pronouncing those funny-sounding foreign-names.

Can you imagine how Laura must feel whenever she hears him talk or sees his odd public behavior?

-- Allen

[susu369]

11. We had it figured out long before the fall of 2002

I might add.

:-)

[reprobate]

8. Actually, your use of the plural "brains" is correct.

Jr. really has two brains.

One is the size of a pea.

Then there is the small one.

[Tellurian]

3. Remove Bush and lock him up with Charles Manson...

where as adoring soul mates, they can mirror each other's frontal lobe talismans.

[Edmond Dantes]

5. Now we know why....

... George the Elder supported the Americans with Disabilities Act. His own son is mentally impaired.

I hope this isn't the prelude to an insanity defense when * is prosecuted for war crimes. Can't you just see the headline?

"Megalomaniac Shrub Committed to Grandiose Ward of Ronald Reagan Hospital for the Criminally Insane."

[AndyTiedye]

10. I am Sure they Know How to Deal with Insane War Criminals Here

The UN Prison undoubtably has a psychiatric wing somewhere.

[spooked]

9. More about this book at HarperCollins!

This books ties right in with the torture at Abu Ghraib!!

http://www.harpercollins.com/catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0060736704


"Among the other subjects Frank explores:

Bush's false sense of omnipotence, instilled within him during childhood and emboldened by his deep investment in fundamentalist religion

The president's history of untreated alcohol abuse, and the questions it raises about denial, impairment, and the enabling streak in our culture

The growing anecdotal evidence that Bush may suffer from dyslexia, ADHD, and other thought disorders

His comfort living outside the law, defying international law in his presidency as boldly as he once defied DUI statutes and military reporting requirements

His love-hate relationship with his father, and how it triggered a complex and dangerous mix of feelings including yearning, rivalry, anger, and sadism

Bush's rigid and simplistic thought patterns, paranoia, and megalomania -- and how they have driven him to invent adversaries so that he can destroy them
At once a compelling portrait of George W. Bush and a damning indictment of his policies, Bush on the Couch sheds startling new light on an administration whose record of violence and cruelty seems increasingly dependent on the unstable psyche of the man at its center. Insightful and accessible, courageous and controversial, Bush on the Couch tackles the question no one seems willing to ask: Is our president psychologically fit to run the country?"

[truth2power]

12. There's something creepy about Bush

As Prof. Frank says,"I was really very unsettled by him and I started watching everything he did and reading what he wrote, and watching him on videotape. I felt he was disturbed."

Whenever I watch Bush it makes my skin crawl. And it has nothing to do with his policies or the direction he's taking this country. Those are other issues entirely.

There's something very wrong, and it's in his demeanor, his eyes, and his body language. It gives me the creeps. I think it's what others here have described when they say they can't stand to watch him. Most of us here intuitively recognize it and it's very abnormal. "Unsettling" is a good word.

[agingdem]

14. Out of the mouth of babes...

my six year old granddaughter was channel surfing and she landed on CNN. Bush was waving to some reporters...my granddaughter looked really hard at the guy and said..."Grammy, that guy has crazy eyes."

[mom cat]

15. Keep encouraging your grand-daughter to tell the truth. Her generation

will need all the truth tellers it can get. If she becomes a politician, let us at DU know.

[agingdem]

17. The way I see it...

my parents were Holocaust survivors...the collective survivors, their children, etc., raised their fists and shouted "Never again!"...Because of the damage that Bush and his minions have inflicted on the United States and the world as a whole I think, for the sake of our children and grandchildren, our mantra, as we go to the polls, should be "Never again"!

[mom cat]

21. We will win with souls like you out there.

[shanti]

16. interesting...

children and animals are often correct when they size someone up!

[rocktivity]

18. Bush's relationship with animals would fill a book in itself.

He's been pecked by turkeys, and remember when he dropped his dog?

:headbang:
rocknation

[Vitruvius]

19. Bu$h also blew up frogs with firecrackers as a child.

Torturing small animals as a child is an early sign of sociopathy -- and is utterly common amongst serial killers.

[Eloriel]

13. Hope this one makes the best-seller list too n/t

[Just Me]

20. Gee, I was thinking schizo-affective and anti-social *LOL*!!!

He's definitely disturbed AND disturbing.

I hope this book hits the best-seller list!!! :bounce:

[Emillereid]

22. As a ex-psychologist I agree with Frank 100% -- Bush is a

dangerous, dry drunk who is quite capable of taking the whole world down with him if he thinks he's 'not understood' and feels cornered.

[Carolab]

23. He's a sociopath...

Sociopaths ALL lie--can't help it.

Compare the truth about his position on Iraq and his service record to this quote from his 1999 book, "A Charge to Keep", for example:

* When he left Yale in spring 1968 as the Vietnam War intensified, "I knew I would serve," Bush writes. "Leaving the country to avoid the draft was not an option for me; I was too conservative and too traditional. My inclination was to support the government and the war until proven wrong, and that only came later, as I realized we could not explain the mission, had no exit strategy and did not seem to be fighting to win."

Bush served in the Texas Air National Guard and never went to Vietnam. For years, he has denied reports that he got the National Guard position because of his father's influence. "I heard from contemporaries that there were openings for pilots in the Texas Air National Guard, and I called to ask about them," he writes. "There were several openings, I was told, because many people who wanted to go into the guard were unwilling to spend the almost two years of full-time duty required for pilot training."

He writes that he volunteered to rotate into Vietnam to relieve active-duty pilots but was told "the program was being phased out, that a few more pilots would go, but that I had not logged enough flight hours to participate."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/e659.htm

[TacticalPeek]

24. Kick.

:kick: