Prominent DC Shrink Diagnoses Bush to be a Paranoid, Sadistic Meglomaniac
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By Staff and Wire Reports
Jun 14, 2004, 00:22

A new book by a prominent Washington psychoanalyst says President George W. Bush is a "paranoid meglomaniac" as well as a sadist and "untreated alcoholic." The doctor's analysis appears to confirm earlier reports the President may be emotionally unstable.

Dr. Justin Frank, writing in Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, also says the President has 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."

Even worse, Dr. Frank concludes, the President's years of heavy 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."

Dr. Frank's revelations comes on the heels of last week's Capitol Hill Blue exclusive that revealed increasing concern by White House aides over Bush's emotional stability.

Aides, who spoke only on condition that their names be withheld, told stories of wide mood swings by the President who would go from quoting the Bible one minute to obscenity-filled outbursts the next.

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 says Bush may suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Other findings by Dr. Frank:
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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."
The President suffers from "character pathology," including "grandiosity" and "megalomania" -- viewing himself, America and God as interchangeable.
Dr. Frank has been a psychiatrist for 35 years and is director of psychiatry at George Washington University. A Democrat, he once headed the Washington Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility.

In an interview with The Washington Post's Richard Leiby, Dr. Frank said he began to be concerned about Bush's behavior in 2002.

"I was really very unsettled by him and I started watching everything he did and reading what he wrote, and watching him on videotape. I felt he was disturbed," Dr. Frank told Leiby. Bush, he said, "fits the profile of a former drinker whose alcoholism has been arrested but not treated."

Dr. Frank's expert recommendation? "Our sole treatment option -- for his benefit and for ours -- is to remove President Bush from office . . . before it is too late."

White House spokesman Scott McClellan refused to comment on the specifics of Dr. Frank's book or the earlier story by Capitol Hill Blue.

"I don't do book reviews," McClellan said, even though he last week recommended the latest book by the Washington Post's Bob Woodward to reporters at the daily press briefing.

I still have a hard time comprehending the fact that he has been placed in the White House. I shake my head and think that my neighbors kid that is always in trouble, and is quite addleminded, has a chance to become president.

It is a scary thought.

Oh no ... this profile sounds like a Middle Eastern dictator!!!

What's so bad about using firecrackers to explode Frenchmen?

RLTW

Ann Coulter wrote a wonderful book about the nonsensical slanders that the Left will use to disparage Republicans and conservatives.

This reminds me of the crap used to slander Barry Goldwater in 1964.  Or, at least, what I read about it (being fourteen months old at the time).

BTW, the second word in the second line of the illustration is about three letters off.  Place "EN" at the beginning, and interpose "L" between "S" and "A," and that would be more accurate.

I can't believe that you actaully posted this trash. And you had a fit about my WMD link??

So tell us oh fact demander, on what date did this doctor examine GWB?

Firecrackers do not work.

You need to use M-80's.

It demonstrates how idiotic some people can become because of pathological hatred towards EvilBush(tm). I truely believe that silly crap like that can only help EvilBush(tm) by turning reasonable, open-minded voters away from the Democrats. We'll see in November if I'm right.

I'll bet that Carl Rove gets a giggle every time Ted Kennedy and the hard-left haters start howling histerically about secret conspiracies and the dangers of EvilBush(tm).

RLTW

-- Modified on 6/17/2004 8:02:35 AM

Maybe I took this too seriously.  It could, after all, simply be a satire, which is even harder to deliver on the internet than in person.  But with some of these people, it's difficult to discern the difference between what they say which they believe to be true and what they say as mere farce.

and at least one of his peers is aware of his work