Justin A. Frank | |
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Born | February 26, 1943 |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | Harvard Medical School |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | George Washington University |
Justin A. Frank (born February 25, 1943, in Los Angeles, CA) is an American author who practices and teaches psychoanalysis in Washington, DC. Frank is a frequent contributor to The Huffington Post on topics as diverse as politics, film, and theater. [1] He is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center. [1]
Frank completed his psychiatric residency at the Harvard Medical School and became the chief resident at the Cambridge Hospital. Frank was awarded the DuPont-Warren Fellowship by Massachusetts General Hospital. Frank is also the co-director of the Metropolitan Center for Object Relations in New York. [2]
Frank employs the principles of applied psychoanalysis to put together the kind of psychological profile used in his books about U.S. presidents: Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, which was extensively quoted from by Fidel Castro in his annual speech in 2004, [3] [4] [5] [6] and Obama on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] In 2018, he published Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President.
Quoting extensively from the book "Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President" by Dr. Justin A. Frank, Castro suggested that Mr. Bush's accusations against Cuba's socialist government may be rooted in his untreated alcoholic past.
Castro quoted Frank, who delves into Bush's professed bout with alcoholism and argues that his history of untreated alcohol abuse could impair his judgment.
He questioned Bush's mental capacities, quoting from the "Bush on the couch" book to describe the US president as a past alcoholic.
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