Of recent leaders there have been depressives, alcoholics, narcissists, populists and those affected by hubris syndrome and driven by their religious beliefs, as in Bush and Blair. But Donald Trump, a world-class narcissist, presents a completely different set of issues. This book is the first to place him in his historical, political, philosophical and medical context.
It is appropriate that it should come from someone uniquely qualified to do so. A writer on Military Conversations of 1906-14, the War Cabinet in 1940 and UK foreign policy post Brexit. David Owen was British Foreign Secretary 1977-79 and EU peace negotiator in the Balkans 1992-95. Also he has served on the board of several large international companies with interests in Russia, the US and the UK. As a former neuroscientist he has written extensively on hubris syndrome in journals like Brain and in 2008 in his classic book, In Sickness and In Power, still in print in a revised edition from 2016.
Part of an exciting series of talks and events which coincide with the exhibition ‘Freud, Dali and the Metamorphosis of Narcissus’, on display until 24 February 2019.
A Writers' Conversation: Lisa Appignanesi and Ruth Padel
The Madness of Medea: Meike Ziervogel and Lisa Dwan
Virginia Woolf and the Perils of Hindsight
PROJECTIONS: Cinema Hysteria 2
Can Artists Teach the Mind Doctors? Can Artworks be a Case Study?
PROJECTIONS: Cinema Hysteria 1
Anna Kavan and the Politics of Madness
Women in Prison, Women in Treatment
Susan Hiller in conversation with Susie Orbach
The Many Minds of Marilyn Monroe
Freud in Bloomsbury
Sites of the Unconscious
Sincerity and Freedom in Psychoanalysis 9: Internal and External Reality: The Ferenczi Project
Sincerity and Freedom in Psychoanalysis 8: Psychoanalysis and Politics
Sincerity and Freedom in Psychoanalysis 7: Ferenczi and Others
Sincerity and Freedom in Psychoanalysis 6: Therapeutic Ethics and Analytic Concepts
Sincerity and Freedom in Psychoanalysis 5: Kino-Analytic Panel
Sincerity and Freedom in Psychoanalysis 4: From Babies to Maturity
Sincerity and Freedom in Psychoanalysis 3: Experiencing, Re-Experiencing, Symbolization and New Beginnings
Sincerity and Freedom in Psychoanalysis 2: Sincerity, Honesty and Freedom
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