"W. D. Allen Sr." wrote:

"...Dr. Frank has been a psychiatrist for 35 years and is director of
psychiatry at George Washington University. A Democrat, he once headed the
Washington Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility...."

A democRAT no less! Why is that not a big surprise! Since he no longer heads
the Washington Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility has he since
started a Washington Chapter of Physicians for Social Irresponsibility? So
does he always "psychoanalyze" people he has never even met face to face?
Could it be he is a WITCH DOCTOR, not a real doctor?

WDA

From: "Dr. Blunt"

New Information Shows Bush Indecisive, Paranoid, Delusional
By TERESA HAMPTON
Editor, Capitol Hill Blue
Jun 17, 2004, 08:47

The carefully-crafted image of George W. Bush as a bold,
decisive leader is cracking under the weight of new revelations that
the erratic President is indecisive, moody, paranoid and delusional.
"More and more this brings back memories of the Nixon White
House," says retired political science professor George Harleigh, who
worked for President Nixon during the second presidential term that
ended in resignation under fire. "I haven't heard any reports of
President Bush wondering the halls talking to portraits of dead
Presidents but what I have been told is disturbing."

Two weeks ago, Capitol Hill Blue revealed that a growing
number of White House aides are concerned about the President's mental
stability. They told harrowing tales of violent mood swings, bouts
with paranoia and obscene outbursts from a President who wears his
religion on his sleeve.

Although supporters of President Bush dismissed the
reports as "fantasies from anonymous sources," a new book by Dr.
Justin Frank, director of psychiatry at George Washington University,
raises many similar questions about the President's mental stability.

"George W. Bush is a case study in contradiction," Dr.
Frank writes in Bush On The Couch: Inside the Mind of the President.
"Bush is an untreated ex-alcoholic with paranoid and megalomaniac
tendencies."

In addition, a new film by documentary filmmaker, and
frequent Bush critic, Michael Moore shows the President indecisive and
clearly befuddled when he learned about the terrorist attacks on the
World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

While conservative critics who have not yet seen
Fahrenheit 9/11 dismiss the work as an anti-Bush screed, Roger
Friedman of the normally pro-Bush Fox News Network has seen the film
and calls it "a tribute to patriotism, to the American sense of duty
- and at the same time a indictment of stupidity and avarice."

Friedman also says the films "most indelible moment" comes
when Bush, speaking to a group of school kids in Florida, is first
informed of the 9/11 attacks.

"Instead of jumping up and leaving, he instead sat in
front of the class, with an unfortunate look of confusion, for nearly
11 minutes," Friedman says. "Moore obtained the footage from a
teacher at the school who videotaped the morning program. There Bush
sits, with no access to his advisers, while New York is being
viciously attacked. I guarantee you that no one who sees this film
forgets this episode."

Dr. Frank says the episode is typical of how Bush deals
with death and tragedy. He notes that Bush avoids funerals.

"President Bush has not attended a single funeral - other
than that of President Reagan. In my book I explore some possible
reasons for that, whether or not it is "presidential". I am less
interested in judging his behavior on political grounds than I am in
thinking about its meaning both to him and to the rest of us," Dr.
Frank says. "He has spent a lifetime of avoiding grief, starting with
the death of his sister when he was 7 years old. His parents didn't
help him with what must have been confusing and frightening feelings.
He also has a history of evading responsibility and perhaps his not
attending funerals has to do with not wanting to see the damage his
policies have wrought."

In his book, Dr. Frank also suggests Bush resents those in
the military.

"Bush's behavior strongly suggests an unconscious
resentment toward our own servicemen, whose bravery puts his own
(nonexistent) wartime service record to shame," he wrote.

Supporters of President Bush dismiss Frank's book as the
work of a Democrat who once headed the Washington Chapter of
Physicians for Social Responsibility, but his work has been praised by
other prominent psychiatrists, including Dr. James Grotstein,
Professor at UCLA Medical Center, and Dr. Irvin Yalom, MD, Professor
Emeritus at Stanford University Medical School.

Dr. Carolyn Williams, a psychoanalyst who specializes in
paranoid personalities, is a registered Republican and agrees with
most of Dr. Frank's conclusions.

"I find the bulk of his analysis credible," she said in an
interview. "President Bush grew up dealing with an absent but
demanding father, a tough mother and an overachieving brother. All
left indelible impressions on him along with a desire to prove himself
at all cost because he feels surrounded by disapproval. He behavior
suggests a classic paranoid personality. Additionally, his stated
belief that certain actions are 'God's Will' are symptomatic of
delusional behavior."

Ryan Reynolds, a childhood friend of Bush, concurs.

"George wanted to please his father but never felt he
measured up, especially when compared to Jeb," Reynolds said.

Dr. Williams wonders if the Iraq war was not Bush's way of
"proving he could finish something his father could not by deposing
Saddam Hussein."

But Bush's desire to please his father may have backfired.
Former President George H.W. Bush has remained silent publicly about
the war, saying he will only discuss it with his son "in private."
Close aides say that is because he disapproves of his son's actions
against Iraq.

"Former President Bush does not support the war against
Iraq," says former aide John Ruskin. "It is as simple at that."

While current White House aides and officials would not
allow their names to be used when commenting about Bush's erratic
behavior, others like former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill confirm
concerns about Bush's mood swings.

O'Neill says Bush was moody in cabinet meetings and would
wander off on tangents, mostly about Saddam Hussein and Iraq. Bush, O'
Neill says, seemed more focused on Iraq than on finding Osama bin
Laden and would lash out at anyone who disagreed with him.

Harleigh says it is not unusual for White House staffers
to refuse to go public with their concerns about the President's
behavior.

"We saw the same thing in the Nixon years," he says.
"What is unusual is that the White House has not been able to trot out
even one staffer who is willing to go public and say positive things
about the President's mental condition. That says more than anything
else."

Dr. Frank, the Democrat, says the only diagnosis he can
offer for the President's condition is removal from office.

Dr. Williams, the Republican, says she must "reluctantly
agree."

"We have too many unanswered questions about the
President's behavior," she says. "You cannot have those kinds of
unanswered questions when you are talking about the leader of the free
world."


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