Mary Trump's book to be released 2 weeks early

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One thing, though, about really dysfunctional families. They usually affect every member of the family. So, in this case, wouldn’t Mary Trump also likely be somewhat dysfunctional herself, in addition to her uncle, Donald? No wonder she became a clinical psychologist.
 
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Books like this, and Bolton’s book, are distractions from the issues that are really important to our nation, and the good Mr. Trump has done for our country and the American people. They focus on family matters and personality issues, and on personal conflicts, when the attention of our nation should be on Mr. Trump’s policies which have benefited us and the promises he has kept.

This is largely sensationalism, with maybe an element of revenge because certain people didn’t get their way. And, clinical psychology is way over-rated. What qualifies Mary Trump, or anyone else in that field, to analyze another person’s heart and soul? I don’t think she’s as smart as she thinks she is. It’s more like she’s out to make a name for herself.

Since when is ANY president perfect? Look hard enough, and a myriad of human flaws are sure to be discovered, some more obvious than others. So, what? Grab a mirror, Mary, and see if you haven’t a few of your own.

Read this book if you must – maybe out of curiosity – but I won’t be spending any of my money on it. I consider it irrelevant.
 
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JanR said:
Books like this, and Bolton’s book, are distractions from the issues that are really important to our nation, and the good Mr. Trump has done for our country and the American people. They focus on family matters and personality issues, and on personal conflicts, when the attention of our nation should be on Mr. Trump’s policies which have benefited us and the promises he has kept.
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Which of Trump’s policies have benefited us? How about his policies in handling the coronavirus pandemic so far? I just read this interesting statistic in an article today in the New York Times by Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman:
At this point Florida alone has an average daily death toll roughly equal to that of the whole European Union, which has 20 times its population.
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Or how about these interesting observations and statistics in an article from a couple of days ago in the New York Times by John M. Barry, a professor at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine:
When you mix science and politics, you get politics. With the coronavirus, the United States has proved politics hasn’t worked. If we are to fully reopen both the economy and schools safely — which can be done — we have to return to science.

To understand just how bad things are in the United States and, more important, what can be done about it requires comparison. At this writing, Italy, once the poster child of coronavirus devastation and with a population twice that of Texas, has recently averaged about 200 new cases a day when Texas has had over 9,000. Germany, with a population four times that of Florida, has had fewer than 400 new cases a day. On Sunday, Florida reported over 15,300, the highest single-day total of any state.

The White House says the country has to learn to live with the virus. That’s one thing if new cases occurred at the rates in Italy or Germany, not to mention South Korea or Australia or Vietnam (which so far has zero deaths). It’s another thing when the United States has the highest growth rate of new cases in the world, ahead even of Brazil.

Italy, Germany and dozens of other countries have reopened almost entirely, and they had every reason to do so. They all took the virus seriously and acted decisively, and they continue to.
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Far from benefiting us, his handling of the coronavirus pandemic has been disastrous. No wonder Mary Trump has called her uncle “the world’s most dangerous man.”
 
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They (clinical psychologists) are not overrated by us non-clinical psychologists. We know how incompetent and/or crazy many of them are.
 
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They (clinical psychologists) are not overrated by us non-clinical psychologists. We know how incompetent and/or crazy many of them are.
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Do you feel the same about psychiatrists? I haven’t been very impressed by the ones I’ve seen.
 
A friend who is like a brother to me dated one for a short while. That woman was… interesting. Is a mild way to put it. That she gave out mental health advice astounded me. Talk about inmates running the asylum.
 
Briefly, could you explain the difference between clinical and non clinical psychologist?

I’ve seen a neurologist in the past who is also a psychiatrist. I see that combo sometimes. I was told that the boards are so similar, that many times they will specialize in both.
 
Clinical psychologists are therapists who treat patients having psychological problems, conditions, disorders.

Non-clinical psychologists include all the other kinds of psychologists who have nothing to do with therapy. For example, cognitive psychologists study (mainly) normal thought processes such as cognitive perception, memory, paying attention, reasoning, problem solving, decision making. Developmental psychologists study (mainly) normal processes of growth and decline throughout the lifespan. Social psychologists focus on processes that involve social influence such as conformity, persuasion, prejudice, helping behavior, aggression, attraction. Personality psychologists study how (mainly) normal personality is formed and whether and how it may change throughout life. And so on.
 
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Books like this, and Bolton’s book, are distractions from the issues that are really important to our nation, and the good Mr. Trump has done for our country and the American people.
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The “good Mr. Trump” has forcibly separated children from their parents at the border, the most blatantly white supremacist policy the country has had a long time (to say nothing of the muslim travel ban.) Could we have seen it coming? Of course we could, if we had looked at the kind of person Trump is, and the kind of people he surrounds himself with.
 
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And not a single one of these kinds of psychologists, nor clinical psychologists impresses me. Nor do psychiatrists. The few times I’ve ventured into speaking with them, I have found them condescending, not really listening, and not very helpful. So, I don’t see them.
 
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Since when is ANY president perfect?
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I don’t think anyone here has expressed the expectation that any president be perfect.
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This is largely sensationalism, with maybe an element of revenge because certain people didn’t get their way.
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Addressed in the first chapter, and in the interviews.
JanR said:
Books like this, and Bolton’s book, are distractions from the issues that are really important to our nation
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Perceptions on the importance of issues will vary from one person to another (subjective). As for distraction, it is possible to both read the book and allocate attention resources to issues that one considers important.
 
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This is largely sensationalism, with maybe an element of revenge because certain people didn’t get their way.
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It lines up with Trump re-tweeting white supremacist accounts (or that other time when his campaign literally copied an image from an anti-semetic thread on 8chan):


It lines up with the administration pushing the media to run racist propaganda:


It lines up with Trump taking out a full page ad in major newspapers calling for the death of the “central park 5” one of whom was 14 years old.

It lines up with Trump and his father being caught refusing to sell apartments to black people, resulting in a consent decree forcing them to take affirmative action to ensure they housed people equitably. (As an aside, I suspect this experience is why Trump had his Justice Department scrap Obama-era consent decrees designed to reform the police.) The WW2 era anti-fascist Woodie Guthrie wrote a song documenting Trump Senior’s discriminatory housing policies.

It lines up with things other people have said about him well before he ran for office.
Besides that, I’ve got to tell you something else. I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not something they can control. … Don’t you agree?
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–Trump, according to John O’Donnell in 1991.
 
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Have you spoken with many psychologists who are not therapists? Do you have a background in any area of psychology yourself or have you taken psychology classes?
 
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