# Book: "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump..." **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 25, 2017, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-the-dangerous-case-of-donald-trump/797247 "2017-09-25T02:20:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-the-dangerous-case-of-donald-trump/797247/1 "2017-09-25T02:20:16Z")
Full title: _[The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President](https://www.amazon.com/Dangerous-Case-Donald-Trump-Psychiatrists-ebook/dp/B07262SJDC)_ If there’s already a thread on this, I missed it. Also, I put it in CS, 'cause it’s a book, but maybe it needs to be moved? > [@](#): > > Amazon blurb: The consensus view of two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists that Trump is dangerously mentally ill and that he presents a clear and present danger to the nation and our own mental health. Reviewed in the Washington Post along with other books on related topics. > [@](#): > > Gone are the days when euphemisms about President Trump’s mental health insulated the man like so many padded walls. Erratic. Unpredictable. Unstable. Unmoored. Temperamentally unfit. This was what politicians and commentators said when they wished to question Trump’s state of mind but feared the consequences of a more colloquial assessment. Yet the deeper we plunge into this presidency, the more willing people become to call it like they see and hear it. > … > > Now, some psychiatrists and other mental-health professionals are shedding long-held norms to argue that Trump’s condition presents risks to the nation and the world. “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump” features more than two dozen essays breaking down the president’s perceived traits, which the contributors find consistent with symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder, sociopathy and other maladies. “Collectively with our coauthors, we warn that anyone as mentally unstable as Mr. Trump simply should not be entrusted with the life-and-death powers of the presidency,” Judith Lewis Herman of Harvard Medical School and Bandy X. Lee of the Yale School of Medicine write in the book’s prologue… [Cite](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2017/09/22/is-trump-mentally-ill-or-is-america-psychiatrists-weigh-in/?utm_term=.247bd47ab100) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-the-dangerous-case-of-donald-trump/797247)._