In Bush On the Couch, Dr. Justin Frank, a renowned Washington, DC-based psychoanalyst, assembles a comprehensive psychological profile of President George W. Bush. Using the principles of Applied Psychoanalysis, the discipline of psychoanalyzing public and historical figure pioneered by Freud, Frank fearlessly builds his case, which concludes with a most disturbing diagnosis.

With an eye for the subtleties of human behavior sharpened through thirty years of clinical practice, Dr. Frank traces the development of Bush’s character from childhood to present day, identifying and analyzing Bush’s patterns of thought, behavior and communication. A thorough and authoritative examination of Bush’s public appearances and speeches, along with historical, biographical, and journalistic records, Bush On the Couch is a compelling portrait of George W. Bush, filled with controversial and disturbing revelations about our nation’s leader:

• The scion of a powerful family that failed to nurture its first-born son even as it instilled

within him a false sense of omnipotence

• An individual in the grip of anxieties that require a monumental effort to manage

• An untreated alcoholic supported by a nation of enablers

• A rigid thinker with a perilously simplistic worldview

• And a megalomaniacal leader driven to invent adversaries so he can destroy them