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Monday, October 31, 2005

VERY FRIGHTENING
HALLOWEEN POST



The worse things get for George Bush, the better things get for UD’s GW colleague and presidential psychoanalyst, Justin Frank.

Frank, a clinical professor of psychiatry, believes that the president is a full-throttle psychotic. His “multiple mental illnesses” date from the death of his younger sister. In books, articles, and a spate of recent interviews, Frank has warned America that it elected a madman, and now, as Bush drunkenly falls off of his bicycle (“Nobody confronts him about falling off of his bicycle. People are too afraid to even ask the question.”) and reveals other signs of trauma- and alcohol-induced dementia, Frank can only say I told you so.

Professor Frank has appeared lately in the Larouche Executive Intelligence Review, Mathaba.net, and the National Enquirer to discuss the president‘s psyche. His technique is “applied psychoanalysis,” the deep analysis of a person based on watching them on television and reading news reports about them:

In 2002, he became concerned about Bush’s abnormal behavior. Using applied psychoanalysis, a scientific method of studying historical figures and foreign leaders, Dr. Frank reached his conclusions based on massive amounts of public documentation — autobiographical and biographical accounts, public video footage of the President, and statements by Bush’s associates and relatives. This is the first case study of applied psychoanalysis on a sitting president.

Dr. Frank diagnosed the President suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); an Oedipal Complex; untreated and uncured alcoholism (“dry drunk"); paranoia; sadism; psychical reality; and a megalomania complex.


Although he begins a recent interview by complaining that his book about the president‘s insanity, Bush on the Couch, has “been not well-promoted by my publisher, unfortunately,” Frank is undaunted.

Prompted by his interviewer, who notes that in fact “the whole underlying concept of applied psychoanalysis is that public figures offer, in some respects, more clinical material than even individuals who are patients whom you only see under limited circumstances,” Frank reviews the president’s life and concludes that his escalating insanity derives from “the fact that he was never able to mourn, and when you don't mourn, you can't integrate your inner life. What happens is that, as I write in the book, sorrow is the vitamin of growth, and until you face who you are and what you've lost, you really can't organize your mind, and so what happens is when you're the first born, and the next one dies, you're left with a lot of unworked-out hostility, anger, guilt, that maybe your wishes killed them. You have lots of magical thinking, and if you don't have a family that helps you gather those things together, you can be in a lot of trouble.” Pursued by demons, Bush retreats, Frank reports, “to his inner version of Crawford, Texas, just retreat[s] to the Crawford of his mind.”

Most recently, in an exclusive interview to the Enquirer, Frank reveals that: "Bush is drinking again. Alcoholics who are not in any program, like the President, have a hard time when stress gets to be great. I think it's a concern that Bush disappears during times of stress. He spends so much time on his ranch. It's very frightening."