Jon KARL spin: Maybe SHITLER *is* mentally ill, makes for "successful leadership"

For years my Wingnut Radar has ping-ed off the hook anytime KARL peers through the camera. My impression of him has been that he has always been an apologist for any Repuke, Shrub, whoever, the way one of his predecessors at ABC, Brit HUME, would skew, slant, tilt all his "objective reporting" in his role of consigliere for the BUSH Family Evil Empire, and we know where HUME has slithered his career to (the Faux Propaganda Network).

So get ready for the book tour. On GMA, STEPHANOPOULOS spotlighted one story in the book that he said made his eyes bug out, that when MULVANEY took over as Acting Chief of Staff, he assigned all his senior staff to read this book linking mental illness to "successful leadership," that the greatest leaders have had mental illness. Yeah-yeah, George said he was shocked, but KARL had a little smile, like what a mole would have when his mark has swallowed the hook.

So here we go, all those hundreds of clinical psychiatrists who have been publishing all the diagnoses for SHITLER over the past three years are now going to be revisioned out of their credentials, doncher-no, since their diagnoses, unbeknownst to them, have actually made the case for SHITLER as a worthy Dear Leader.

Video to the GMA plug: https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/video/abcs-jon-karl-talks-book-front-row-trump-69868943

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by S. Nassir Ghaemi

In A First-Rate Madness, Nassir Ghaemi, who runs the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts University Medical Center, draws from the careers and personal plights of such notable leaders as Lincoln, Churchill, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., JFK, and others from the past two centuries to build an argument at once controversial and compelling: the very qualities that mark those with mood disorders - realism, empathy, resilience, and creativity - also make for the best leaders in times of crisis. By combining astute analysis of the historical evidence with the latest psychiatric research, Ghaemi demonstrates how these qualities have produced brilliant leadership under the toughest circumstances.

Take realism, for instance: study after study has shown that those suffering depression are better than "normal" people at assessing current threats and predicting future outcomes. Looking at Lincoln and Churchill among others, Ghaemi shows how depressive realism helped these men tackle challenges both personal and national. Or consider creativity, a quality psychiatrists have studied extensively in relation to bipolar disorder. A First-Rate Madness shows how mania inspired General Sherman and Ted Turner to design and execute their most creative-and successful-strategies.

Ghaemi's thesis is both robust and expansive; he even explains why eminently sane men like Neville Chamberlain and George W. Bush made such poor leaders. Though sane people are better shepherds in good times, sanity can be a severe liability in moments of crisis. A lifetime without the cyclical torment of mood disorders, Ghaemi explains, can leave one ill equipped to endure dire straits. He also clarifies which kinds of insanity - like psychosis - make for despotism and ineptitude, sometimes on a grand scale.

Ghaemi's bold, authoritative analysis offers powerful new tools for determining who should lead us. But perhaps most profoundly, he encourages us to rethink our view of mental illness as a purely negative phenomenon. As A First-Rate Madness makes clear, the most common types of insanity can confer vital benefits on individuals and society at large - however high the price for those who endure these illnesses.


*** ABOUT S. NASSIR GHAEMI
.... His clinical work and research has focused on depression and manic-depressive illness. In this work, he has published over 200 scientific articles, over 50 scientific book chapters, and he has written or edited over half a dozen books. He is an Associate Editor of Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association.

After his medical training, he obtained an MA in philosophy from Tufts University in 2001, and a MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2004.

Born in Tehran, Iran, he immigrated to the US at the age of 5 with his family and was raised in McLean, Virginia by his father Kamal Ghaemi MD, a neurosurgeon and neurologist, and his mother Guity Kamali Ghaemi, an art historian. A graduate of McLean High School (1984), he received a BA in history from George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia, 1986). ....


https://www.axios.com/jonathan-karl-front-row-at-the-trump-show-kelly-venezuela-e9025e17-8486-47d2-abdf-16d771877812.html


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