Pundits have labeled Donald Trump crazy, a toddler, a narcissist. To get beyond the punditry we went to actual mental health professionals for this series of special podcasts based on the New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. In conversations with a dozen psychiatrists and psychologists, we explore the pathologies that make Donald Trump the terrible person and worse president he is. Today’s episode features the editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, Dr. Bandy Lee, a psychiatrist on the faculty of the Yale Medical School. Also Dr. James Gilligan who was on the faculty of The Harvard Medical School and was for 13 years, the director of the Harvard Institute of Law and Psychiatry; Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, one of the most prominent psychiatrists in America and one of the originators of the field of psycho-history, which is the study of psychological motivations for war, terrorism, and genocide. He wrote the forward to the first edition of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. He was a lecturer at The Harvard Medical School and is a professor emeritus at The City University of New York. And Stanford Professor Emeritus, social psychologist Phillip Zimbardo; Stephen Soldz, a clinical psychologist and director of the Social Justice and Human Rights program at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis and Harvard Psychiatrist, Dr. Harry Friedman. Drs. Gilligan, Zimbardo, Soldz and Friedman all contributed chapters to The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump.

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The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. Episode 1