3 Mental Health Experts on Dr. Mary Trump's Book.
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Mary Trump's Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, is a runaway bestseller and a crucial window into the dangerous mental life of the most powerful man in world. We decided to gather three mental health professionals to read the book and compare it to their own work in their bestseller from 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. Bill is joined by Dr. Bandy Lee, Assistant Clinical Professor at the Yale school of Medicine and Editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, Dr. Ellyn Kaschak, Professor Emerita of Psychology at San Jose State University and Dr. Edwin Fisher,m Clinical Psychologist and Professor at the Gillings School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome to a very special episode of the Bill Press Pod focused on the uproar surrounding publication of a new book by Dr. Mary Trump, |
| 0:17.4 | Donald Trump's niece, and a clinical psychologist about her scatterbrained uncle and the |
| 0:23.0 | whole dysfunctional Trump family. Of course, Trump tried to block publication of the book, |
| 0:29.0 | but his efforts backfire big time. Sales of Mary Trump's book, too much and never enough, |
| 0:34.7 | set a new record for Simon & Schuster, 950,000 sales on day one. |
| 0:41.1 | Her interview with Rachel Maddow also sent a record for any MSNBC program ever, 5.23 million |
| 0:48.3 | viewers. |
| 0:49.2 | And her book, written by a trained clinical psychologist remember, also confirms many of the warnings |
| 0:56.0 | first raised about Donald Trump's mental capacity three years ago in a landmark study by 27 |
| 1:02.7 | mental health professionals called the Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. |
| 1:08.3 | By now, you've probably seen interviews with Mary Trump about her book, but we |
| 1:12.3 | decided to take a different approach today to find out what fellow mental health professionals |
| 1:17.8 | think of her book, what they learn from it, and what it says about the mental stability of |
| 1:24.2 | Donald Trump. So we're joined today by three leaders in their field, Dr. Bandi Lee, |
| 1:30.4 | assistant clinical professor, the Yale School of Medicine, and editor of the New York Times |
| 1:36.3 | bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump. Dr. Alan Cashack, Professor Emerita of |
| 1:42.4 | Psychology at San Jose State University, and Dr. Edwin Fisher, |
| 1:47.4 | clinical psychologist and professor at Gilling School of Public Health at the University of North |
| 1:53.1 | Carolina in Chapel Hill. |
| 1:55.2 | Dr. Lee, Dr. Cashack, Dr. Fisher, thank you all for joining us today. |
| 1:59.7 | And we wanted to get your thoughts on the new book, |
| 2:03.2 | the controversial new book by Mary Trump, about her uncle, too much and never enough. |
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