Jan 07
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Bush Psycho Analysis
I can't remember any politician or public figure that has had as much written about his state of mind as GWB.
It continues….
Two eminent doctors (both with the name Briggs, so I presume they are father and son) have written in the last week about the GWB state of mind….
Here is a snippet:
and Condoleezza Rice functioning as Bush's puppet-masters are 180 (or at least
160) degrees off. Bush is the president; he gets his way, and they know it.
Chances are they have learned to channel his “gut” and give him policy
advice that matches it. They may even imagine they are steering him, not clear
about the ways that he has bullied them, elicited in them “The Stockholm
Syndrome,” in which hostages come to identify with and even defend the
very person who is threatening them. This is the same dynamic evident in the
behavior of battered spouses and members of gangs.
Ron Suskind described the small group around the president: “A disdain
for contemplation or deliberation, an embrace of decisiveness – a sometimes
bullying impatience with doubters and even friendly questioners.”
Biographical reports tell us that Bush's parents taught him to keep his inner
feelings to himself. As psychiatrist Justin A. Frank noted in Bush
on the Couch, this results in a “self-protective indifference
to the pain of others.” This is another aspect of his bully defense, projecting
his inner pain onto others. Bush's remarkable drive for the power to torture
terrorist suspects and his reported glorying in Texas executions during his
terms as governor testify to his lack of compassion, despite his recent statement
of qualms about seeing Saddam Hussein drop through the trap.