Sunday, June 13, 2004 10:20:03 AM
President's analyst? Doctor puts 'Bush on the Couch'
President Bush has never had much use for talking to shrinks. And, according to one Washington-based psychoanalyst, we may all be paying for it.
Dr. Justin Frank has taken it upon himself to put "Bush on the Couch" (the title of his new book). Based on his applied psychoanalysis of Dubya's life, the White House is occupied by an "untreated ex-alcoholic" with paranoid and megalomaniac tendencies. Even though he's a helluva nice guy.
"He's very affable," Frank, a professor of psychiatry at George Washington University Medical Center, tells us. "I like his sense of humor."
But although Frank has never met Dubya, the doc also finds:
-- Bush shows an inability to grieve - dating back to age 7, when his sister died. "The family's reaction - no funeral and no mourning - set in motion his life-long pattern of turning away from pain [and hiding] behind antic behavior," says Frank, who contends Bush may suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
-- His mother, Barbara Bush - tabbed by some family friends as "the one who instills fear" - had trouble connecting emotionally with her son, Frank argues.
-- George H.W. Bush's "emotional and physical absence during his son's youth triggered feelings of both adoration and revenge in George W."
-- Bush has shown a "lifelong streak of sadism," ranging from "childhood pranks (using firecrackers to explode frogs)" to "insulting journalists, gloating over state executions ... [and] pumping his fist gleefully before the bombing of Baghdad."
-- Bush's years of drinking "may have affected his brain function - and his decision to quit drinking without the help of a 12-step program [puts] him at far higher risk of relapse."
Frank's recommendation? "The sole treatment option - for his benefit and ours - is to remove [him] from office."
Though Frank told wouldn't comment on Bush's rival, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, he did express desire that someone else would study him and other politicians with the same level of scrutiny.
A Bush spokesman responded: "The White House simply does not offer book reviews."
© 2004 Daily News, L.P.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/200790p-173283c.html
President Bush has never had much use for talking to shrinks. And, according to one Washington-based psychoanalyst, we may all be paying for it.
Dr. Justin Frank has taken it upon himself to put "Bush on the Couch" (the title of his new book). Based on his applied psychoanalysis of Dubya's life, the White House is occupied by an "untreated ex-alcoholic" with paranoid and megalomaniac tendencies. Even though he's a helluva nice guy.
"He's very affable," Frank, a professor of psychiatry at George Washington University Medical Center, tells us. "I like his sense of humor."
But although Frank has never met Dubya, the doc also finds:
-- Bush shows an inability to grieve - dating back to age 7, when his sister died. "The family's reaction - no funeral and no mourning - set in motion his life-long pattern of turning away from pain [and hiding] behind antic behavior," says Frank, who contends Bush may suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
-- His mother, Barbara Bush - tabbed by some family friends as "the one who instills fear" - had trouble connecting emotionally with her son, Frank argues.
-- George H.W. Bush's "emotional and physical absence during his son's youth triggered feelings of both adoration and revenge in George W."
-- Bush has shown a "lifelong streak of sadism," ranging from "childhood pranks (using firecrackers to explode frogs)" to "insulting journalists, gloating over state executions ... [and] pumping his fist gleefully before the bombing of Baghdad."
-- Bush's years of drinking "may have affected his brain function - and his decision to quit drinking without the help of a 12-step program [puts] him at far higher risk of relapse."
Frank's recommendation? "The sole treatment option - for his benefit and ours - is to remove [him] from office."
Though Frank told wouldn't comment on Bush's rival, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, he did express desire that someone else would study him and other politicians with the same level of scrutiny.
A Bush spokesman responded: "The White House simply does not offer book reviews."
© 2004 Daily News, L.P.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/200790p-173283c.html
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"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790
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