Psychoanalytic and Historical Perspectives on the Leadership of Donald Trump

Name: Psychoanalytic and Historical Perspectives on the Leadership of Donald Trump
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9780367897123
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This compelling volume explores the personality and leadership of Donald Trump through the combined lenses of psychoanalysis, history, and sociology. Expert contributors examine whether Trump exhibits narcissistic traits or mental illness, analysing his personal history, leadership style, and relationship with his base. The book situates Trump within broader American culture and politics, critically engaging with themes such as gaslighting, demagoguery, and fascism.

Psychoanalytic and Historical Perspectives on the Leadership of Donald Trump challenges prevailing diagnoses of narcissistic personality disorder and argues that Trump's behaviour and policies are shaped by a distinct blend of marketing savvy and narcissism. It offers valuable insights for understanding both Trump’s rise and the motivations of his followers by integrating multiple disciplinary perspectives.
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Ideal for academics and students of psychoanalysis, history, sociology, and political science, as well as readers interested in contemporary American politics and leadership psychology.

In this fascinating and highly relevant new book narcissism is defined and applied to Donald Trump, his personal history and style of leadership, and the relationship between Trump and his base is explored as a symptom of his needs and the needs of his followers.

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What is Donald Trump’s personality? Is he mentally ill? What in American culture and history enabled him to become president? How does his personality shape his policies and leadership?

In this fascinating and highly relevant new book, these questions are answered by a selection of expert contributors, including psychoanalysts, historians, and a sociologist. Narcissism is defined and applied to Donald Trump, his personal history and style of leadership, and the relationship between Trump and his base is explored as a symptom of his needs and the needs of his followers. U.S. culture and U.S. politics are put under the lens, as chapters draw on contemporary academic and journalistic analysis, continuing discussions around gaslighting, demagoguery, and fascism in terms of their validity in application to Trump.

Psychoanalytic and Historical Perspectives on the Leadership of Donald Trump refutes many of the mental health experts who label Trump as suffering from a narcissistic personality disorder and makes the case that Trump’s personality combines a marketing and narcissistic orientation that determines his behaviour and policies. The authors also assert that to understand Trump’s rise and his followers, it is valuable to combine psychoanalytic, historical, and sociological perspectives. This book will therefore be of great interest to academics in those fields and all those with an interest in contemporary American politics.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367897123

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 May 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 1 Line drawings, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Michael Maccoby
Edited by Ken Fuchsman

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 510g

Pages: 180

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Business & Entrepreneurship Education & Reference Non-Fiction Philosophy & Psychology Politics & Current Affairs

About the Author

Michael Maccoby, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and anthropologist, who is a globally recognized expert on leadership. He has taught or consulted to leaders in 36 countries and has taught leadership at Oxford’s Saïd Business School and Sciences Po, Paris. He is the author of The Gamesman, Narcissistic Leaders, The Leaders We Need: And What Makes Us Follow, and Strategic Intelligence.

Ken Fuchsman, EdD, has been President of the International Psychohistorical Association since 2016. He is Emeritus faculty from the University of Connecticut, where he taught American history and interdisciplinary studies. He has written on Presidents Kennedy, Nixon, Obama, and Trump.