Dr Allen Frances

Listen to "Dr Allen Frances Twighlight Of American Sanity" on Spreaker. Dr. Allen Frances’s landmark new book seeks to make sense of our time and how we got here: TWILIGHT OF AMERICAN SANITY: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump (William Morrow/On-sale September 5th, 2017) examines the national psyche, viewing the rise of President Trump as “as mirror on our soul,” one that is darkly symptomatic of a deeper societal distress. Environmentalist Bill McKibben recently commented on TWILIGHT OF AMERICAN SANITY, "Allen Frances is right: the deep questions are not about Trump, but about the society in which he became even a plausible candidate, much less the president. May this be an opportunity to think more clearly about who we are and what we really want!" Indeed Frances provides a fascinating study of the underlying societal sickness that made possible Trump’s unlikely ascent. Instead of name-calling and partisan retrenchment, we must engage in honest reflection to understand why our society is self-destructing, and how we can fight the societal delusions that ushered Trump into office!! For the countless Americans who are concerned about the future of our democracy, TWILIGHT OF AMERICAN SANITY provides an urgently needed prescription for reclaiming our psychological bearings. “If we want to get sane,” Frances writes, “we must first gain insight about ourselves.”