This fascinating interdisciplinary work explores US politics since 2015 and offers psychodynamic insights into the unconscious undercurrents of contemporary culture and politics in the United States.

Seth Allcorn is the former Vice President for Business and Finance at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. Dr. Allcorn has more than 20 years of experience working with physicians, hospitals and academic medical centers and organizational consultant specializing in the management of change, strategic planning, and organizational restructuring. He is a founding member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organization.

Howard F. Stein is an organizational, applied, psychoanalytic, and medical anthropologist, psychohistorian, organizational consultant, and poet. He is Professor Emeritus of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where he taught for nearly 35 years. He facilitated the American Indian Diabetes Prevention Center's meetings from 2012 to 2017. He is a long-time member of the International Psychohistorical Association.

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Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

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1. Introduction
2. Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory in Making Sense of the Age of Trump

PART I: Trump the Man, the President

3. Overview of Trump's Business and Political History
4. Narcissism
5. Autocracy

PART II: Charismatic Leaders and Their Sycophants

6. Charismatic Leaders
7. Sycophants and Their Charismatic Leader
8. The Reality of Chaotic Leadership

PART III: The Power of Ideologies

9. Introduction to Ideology
10. Contemporary Right-Wing Ideology and Its Relationship to Shame
11. Deregulation as a Right-Wing Ideology

PART IV: The Followers of Trump

12. The Sentience of Followership
13. A Culture of Grievance: Creating Polarization from Chosen Traumas
14. White Supremacy and the Pursuit of Power
15. The Learning Curve