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Brian Kilmeade Show

Jonathan Alpert: Is "Trump Derangement Syndrome" Real?

Brian Kilmeade Show

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4.12K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Is "Trump Derangement Syndrome" a legitimate psychological pathology? Psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert joins Brian Kilmeade to discuss his new book, "Therapy Nation," and how the mental health profession is increasingly being fueled by political agendas and radicalization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Let's take a break from the breaking news and talk about something that's always in the news, and that is Trump Derangement Syndrome.

0:35.3

It's a real thing. Jonathan Albert wrote about it, and he also has a brand new book. He's a psychotherapist, a therapy nation, how America got hooked on

0:42.0

therapy and why it's left us more anxious and divided. So I thought when I saw the title, I thought

0:48.5

I was looking at a book that talks about how people are looking to people going to therapy too young and trying to identify normal

0:56.0

things that life brings and overreacting to it and trying to.

1:01.1

So the book is actually a little bit different in that, Jonathan, if you're wrestling

1:06.1

with your headsets in a way I've never seen before, the book's a little different in that

1:09.8

you see these therapists are almost like the college

1:12.6

professors working to push a political agenda you're finding out.

1:18.8

Oh, absolutely.

1:19.8

There's an agenda and no longer are grad students learning how to become therapists.

1:25.3

They're learning how to become social justice warriors.

1:29.5

And, you know, that's, that's part of the problem that we're seeing. My profession is just

1:33.8

riddled with people who are looking to get out there and get their agenda out there. And they're

1:40.0

not really looking to treat mental health disorders like we're supposed to do. So here is Caroline Levitt on some of the rhetoric that we're hearing because you said in therapy,

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