Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump

He is professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Duke University School of Medicine.. Allen Frances, MD, was the chair of the DSM-IV Task Force and part of the leadership group for DSM-III and DSM-III-R

“Allen Frances is right: the deep questions are not about Trump but about the society in which he became even a plausible candidate, much less the president. Readers might disagree with some of his conclusions, but they will always find them provocative and well argued.” (Marcia Angell, MD, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine) . Twilight of American Sanity leaves no topic untouched. May Twilight of American Sanity be an opoprtunity to think more clearly about who we are and what we really want!” (Bill McKibben, enviornmentalist and author of The End of Nature and Free Radio Vermont)“One of the world’s most promenent psychiatrists.” (The Atlantic)“An eminent psychiatrist.” (New York Times)“In this wide-ranging and enlightening book, Allen

Frances argues that Trump is "bad not mad"--that the real question to wrestle with is how we as a country could have chosen him as our leader. A landmark book, from “one of the world’s most prominent psychiatrists” (The Atlantic, June 2017): Eminent psychiatrist Allen Frances analyzes the national psyche, viewing the rise of Donald J. To answer this, Frances looks deeply at at the American past and present, in hope of Twilight of American Sanity is an essential work for understanding ou