A Clear and Present Danger: Narcissism in the Era of Donald Trump

by Steve Buser (Editor), Leonard Cruz (Editor)

Overview

Narcissism is epidemic and there is scarcely a domain that is immune to its effects. A Clear and Present Danger: Narcissism in the Era of Donald Trump brings together bestselling authors, university professors, and practicing clinicians to explore this vital topic. "Every country has the government it deserves," said Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America. Whatever history eventually records about the 2016 presidential election, this frank and thoughtful exploration of narcissism will prove to be a timely and timeless study.

Narcissism demands to be mirrored and refuses to be challenged. It demands acclaim, obedience, and accommodation, while disregarding others. Whether narcissism overtakes the home, the workplace, or the national stage, everyone who comes under Narcissus's spell, both the narcissist and their subjects, suffer.

Pundits insist that politics has seldom been as polarized as it became during the 2016 election in the United States. This was a coincidence of opposites, a coincidentia oppositorum. While Donald Trump galvanized vast numbers of angry, disaffected voters, Senator Bernie Sanders mobilized enormous crowds of young voters who seemed passionately committed to revolutionizing American politics. Regardless of the winner of the contest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, it is vital to recognize what is happening on this global stage of politics. A Clear and Present Danger: Narcissism in the Era of Donald Trump explores the phenomenon of Trump as well as the vast landscape of narcissism in general.

The contributors share a hope that these essays will become a mirror for the reader and for a nation called to examine itself. Dr. Estés reminds us in the closing pages, "We were made for times like these."

(Contributors include: Jean Shinoda Bolen, James Hollis, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Susan Rowland, and more than a dozen others. For more information: trumpnarcissism.com)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940156977222
Publisher:	Chiron Publications
Publication date:	07/26/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	185,500
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. , is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, author of 13 influential books in 85 foreign translations. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, former clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF.


Steven Buser, M.D. is a psychiatrist and serves as Publisher of Chiron Publications.


Leonard Cruz, M.D. is a psychiatrist and Editor-in-Chief of Chiron Publications


Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D. , Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., [doctorate in ethno-clinical psychology: thought processes/ life choices within diverse groups] is a Mestizo Latina poet, award-winning storyteller in the old traditions, a senior Jungian training analyst, and post-trauma recovery specialist who began working with war veterans at Hines VA Hospital in 1965. Her Post-Trauma Recovery Protocol is used worldwide to help train citizens in post-trauma recovery work following tragedies and disasters. Her books, Women Who Run with the Wolves, about the wild woman archetype, and Untie the Strong Woman, about the mercies of La Señora, Our Lady of Guadalupe, are published in 37 languages.


Nancy Swift Furlotti, Ph.D. is a Jungian Analyst, co-chair of the C.G. Jung Professorial Endowment in Analytical Psychology, UCLA, and board member at Pacifica Graduate Institute.


James Hollis, Ph.D. is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Washington, D.C., where he is Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington, and author of 14 books.


Alden Josey Ph.D. completed training at the C.G. Jung Institute for Analytical Psychology in Zürich and has lectured widely in this country and abroad on various topics.


Thomas Patrick Lavin, Ph.D. is a Zürich-trained Jungian analyst with a PhD in clinical psychology and theology.


Kathryn Madden, Ph.D. psychoanalyst, editor of The Unconscious Roots of Creativity, and has been the Editor-in-Chief of Quadrant: The Journal of the C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology for 12 years


Eve Maram, Psy.D. is a clinical and forensic psychologist and a Jungian-oriented psychotherapist in private practice in Orange, California.


John McClain, Ph.D. teaches in the Humanities Program at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. His doctorate in political theory is from the University of North Carolin