The language of the totalist environment is characterized by the thought-terminating cliché. The most far-reaching and complex of human problems are ….

There's an all-enveloping destructiveness in Donald Trump's character and in his psychological tendencies. But I've focused on what professionally I ….

While Donald Trump doesn't have any systematic ideology, he does have a narrative, and in that narrative, America was once a great country, it's been….

For anyone with the traits - of feeling himself victimized, of seeking to be the strongman who resolves everything, yet sees truth only through his o….

There is a movement of more people recognizing global warming as a danger, recognizing the human contribution to global warming, recognizing the nece….

With the nuclear threat we know that if sufficient weapons are used, human civilization - all of humankind - could be extinguished literally by "nucl….

In sum, doubling is the psychological means by which one invokes the evil potential of the self. That evil is neither inherent in the self nor foreig….

In early psychoanalytic thought, narcissism was - and still, of course, is - self-love. The early psychoanalysts used to talk of libido directed at t….

The one-sided exploitation of existential guilt is thought reform's trump card, and perhaps its most important source of emotional influence over its….

People with what we call mental illness can indeed serve well, and people who have no discernible mental illness - and that may be true of Trump - ma….

Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work..

One reason that I embarked on a study of Nazi doctors was that in this personal journey, I had the feeling increasingly that I did want to do a Holoc….

Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of Judaism, which hi….

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and ….

The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a privat….

Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created..

David Frankfurter's valuable, well-written study takes us to the far reaches of demonology. In documenting the harm done by labeling others evil, he ….

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there..

There are people who believe that there should be a standard psychiatric examination for every presidential candidate and for every president. But th….

Donald Trump doesn't have clear contact with reality, though I'm not sure it qualifies as a bona fide delusion. He needs things to be a certain way e….

The American president has particular power. This makes Trump the most dangerous man in the world. He's equally dangerous because of his finger on th….