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• Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
• Midway through George W. Bush’s first presidential term, my concerns about Bush’s mental health led me to undertake an in-depth exploration of his psyche, using the discipline of applied psychoanalysis—the
• In 2004, I published my findings in Bush on the Couch, which struck a chord with readers and demonstrated that applied psychoanalysis can shed unique and invaluable light on who our current leaders are—and how they got that way.
• In Obama on the Couch I described our forty-fourth president as suffering from “Obsessive Bipartisan Disorder,” a characterological need to avoid partisan positioning that was rooted in his biography as the son of a broken, mixed-race marriage;
• The discipline of applied psychoanalysis has long been used by the CIA and other intelligence agencies to study foreign leaders and politicians, and I have no doubt that the Russian effort to interfere on Trump’s behalf in the 2016 election was preceded by an extensive assessment of his psyche.