Bandy X. Lee

An unprecedented report for unprecedented times, Profile of a Trump’s Mind, America’s Soul is a unique and timely accomplishment by one of America’s leading intellectuals.Dr. Bandy Lee’s previous New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President, opened the door to understanding the Trump presidency from a mental health perspective and has been published in many countries and languages. This new book goes beyond Donald Trump to explaining the followers who elevated him and the nation that tolerated him as president.Why does Donald Trump have such a hold on his followers? Why must he provoke violence? What is going on in the minds of those who support and follow him, after so many scandals, failed policies, and even a deadly insurrection? What caused his ascendancy, and how can we prevent another one?Dr. Lee’s epic new book is “the missing piece” that answers these questions with accessible language. She was the first to call out Donald Trump’s psychological dangers in a major way at the start of his presidency. Written over the summer of 2020, she explains why, after almost 200,000 coronavirus deaths and economic devastation, he is still a candidate for reelection and correctly predicts that he would not concede an election loss, would declare it a fraud, and would not let go of power unless severe limits are set on him from without. She outlines what citizens can do at this critical time to help the nation heal and prevent another Trump travesty.With 20 years of experience treating violent offenders and advising on violence prevention programming for prisons, communities, and governments, Dr. Lee is uniquely well positioned with a considerable track record of accuracy. She has also blown the whistle on the American Psychiatric Association’s misuse of the now-infamous “Goldwater rule” to silence mental health professionals under the Trump presidency. The muzzling of intellectuals and journalists, she has warned, is the first sign of tyranny.Melding the techniques of CIA profiling with established methods of public health, this report represents an attempt to meet mental health professionals’ responsibility to society. At this critical time all seriously concerned Americans need to be aware of Dr. Lee’s conclusions and recommendations.

The New York Times bestseller! More than two dozen psychiatrists and psychologists offer their consensus view that Trump's mental state presents a clear and present danger to our nation and individual well-being.This is not normal.Since the start of Donald Trump’s presidential run, one question has quietly but urgently permeated the observations of concerned citizens: What is wrong with him? Constrained by the American Psychiatric Association’s “Goldwater rule,” which inhibits mental health professionals from diagnosing public figures they have not personally examined, many of those qualified to answer this question have shied away from discussing the issue at all. The public has thus been left to wonder whether he is mad, bad, or both.In THE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP, twenty-seven psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health experts argue that, in Mr. Trump’s case, their moral and civic “duty to warn” America supersedes professional neutrality. They then explore Trump’s symptoms and potentially relevant diagnoses to find a complex, if also dangerously mad, man.Philip Zimbardo and Rosemary Sword, for instance, explain Trump’s impulsivity in terms of “unbridled and extreme present hedonism.” Craig Malkin writes on pathological narcissism and politics as a lethal mix. Gail Sheehy, on a lack of trust that exceeds paranoia. Lance Dodes, on sociopathy. Robert Jay Lifton, on the “malignant normality” that can set in everyday life if psychiatrists do not speak up.His madness is catching, too. From the trauma people have experienced under the Trump administration to the cult-like characteristics of his followers, he has created unprecedented mental health consequences across our nation and beyond.It’s not all in our heads. It’s in his."There will not be a book published this fall more urgent, important, or controversial than The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump...profound, illuminating and discomforting" —Bill Moyers

Why is Donald Trump so popular? How has he amassed such a following, despite his deadly Covid-19 mismanagement, a violent insurrection against the government, and a felony conviction, with others likely to come? Specializing in treating violent offenders and advising on violence prevention programming for prisons, communities, governments, and international organizations, Dr. Bandy X. Lee explains the phenomenon of “Trump Contagion” as no other.Dr. Lee’s 2017 New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President, was so unexpectedly successful, it took one of the Big Five publishers five weeks of repeat printings to catch up with the demand! Even White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is reported to have used it as an “owner’s manual” for dealing with Donald Trump, which may have prevented a nuclear war with North Korea. Her second book on Trump, Profile of a Trump’s Mind, America’s Soul, predicted in 2020 a violent insurrection and “a presidency that will not end with the loss of an election.” Her warnings were so accurate, Congress members messaged her from the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, “You are vindicated!” and a major Mother Jones article was subtitled, “The vindication of Bandy Lee.”But Dr. Lee says it is not over. She brings her prescience to a third book, The Psychology of Trump An Existential Danger to American Democracy and All Humankind, and her warnings are she explains the rise of fascism, which she calls, “not a political ideology but mental pathology in politics.” No one has elucidated “the dangerous case of Donald Trump” so accurately and so early as Dr. Lee, and similarly no one will illustrate “the more dangerous case of Donald Trump,” from his deterioration to his spread of symptoms across the culture at large, as Dr. Lee in her new book!

Today, the 2017 instant New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts, seems almost prophetic. The updated and expanded version, The Dangerous Case of Donald 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts, correctly predicted that, unless contained, the dangers would spread exponentially. Now, many more psychiatrists and mental health experts join the original mental health experts who spoke out, to describe the dangers a second Trump presidency would bring to American democracy and human civilization. World-renowned authors lead the volume in asserting their obligation to speak under the Declaration of Geneva, which decries doctors’ silence in the face of destructive regimes. They describe a man who could not pass a basic fitness test because of his pattern of psychological deficits and dysfunctions, who scored extremely high on a dangerousness risk assessment, and whose impairments are only growing more severe with time, to the point of posing existential dangers for humankind.

A comprehensive overview of the integrative study of violenceViolence continues to be one of the most urgent global public health problems that contemporary society faces. Suicides and homicides are increasing at an alarming rate, particularly in younger age groups and lower-income countries. Historically, the study of violence has been fragmented across disparate fields of study with little cross-disciplinary collaboration, thus creating a roadblock to decoding the underlying processes that give rise to violence and hindering efforts in research and prevention. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Causes, Consequences, and Cures assembles and organizes current information into one comprehensive volume, introducing students to the multiple sectors, disciplines, and practices that collectively comprise the study of violence.This innovative textbook presents a unified perspective that integrates the sociological, biological, politico-economic, structural, and environmental underpinnings of violence. Each chapter examines a distinct point of learning, beginning with an overview of the content and concluding with discussion questions and an analytical summary. The chapters focus on key domains of research encouraging interdisciplinary investigation and helping students to develop critical analytical skills and form their own conclusions.Fills a significant gap in the field by providing a coherent text that consolidates information on the multiple aspects of violence Examines current legal, medical, public health, and policy approaches to violence prevention and their application within a global context Illustrates how similar causes of violence may have dissimilar manifestations Presents a multidisciplinary examination of the symptoms and underlying processes of violence Offers a thorough yet accessible learning framework to undergraduate and graduate students without prior knowledge of the study of violence More than just an accumulation of facts and data, this essential text offers a broad introduction to a thinking process that can produce rigorous scholarship across disciplines and lead to a deeper understanding of violence in its many forms.

The 2017 instant New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President, was extremely accurate in its predictions of danger. The updated and expanded version, The Dangerous Case of Donald 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President, further warned that, unless contained, the dangers would spread exponentially. Many more psychiatrists and mental health experts have since joined the effort to warn and inform the public, leading to The More Dangerous Case of Donald 40 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Warn Anew, now expanded to the current volume, The Much More Dangerous Case of Donald 50 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Warn Anew. World-renowned authors lead the volume in asserting their obligation to speak under the Declaration of Geneva, which decries doctors’ silence in the face of destructive regimes. They describe a man who showed increasing cognitive deficits, scored extremely high on a dangerousness risk assessment, and could not pass a basic fitness test because of his pattern of psychological deficits and dysfunctions. His worsening impairments, while holding the most powerful position on the planet, pose many existential dangers for humankind.

In historically unprecedented ways, thousands of mental health professionals came forth to warn against the dangers of the current presidency, forming the World Mental Health Coalition. Because of mental impairments and proneness to violence, they argued, the public would be subject to dangers like no other time. Bandy X. Lee, editor of the New York Times bestseller THE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP, introduces this documentation of their efforts. Tracing their conferences, media appearances, letters, petitions, and even a full mental capacity evaluation and a “Prescription for Survival,” this volume brings together in one place, for the first time, a record of how mental health professionals endeavored to protect the public’s health and safety. Acting on a medical consensus but finding no support from their professional associations, they not only risked their careers and their own safety to try to alert the public, but also found themselves fighting against the powerful American Psychiatric Association. They allege that this psychiatric association, at the start of the Trump presidency, had modified “the Goldwater rule”—the purpose of which is to protect public health—to protect a political figure at the expense of public health. Now, over 150,000 deaths have occurred not only because of a novel virus but as a direct result of the president’s mental state. A vast majority of those deaths, they argue, were avoidable. Find out through this collection about the critical role of expertise in the public’s ability to protect itself and to make informed decisions. The World Mental Health Coalition is a story about the mobilization of professionals, their response to a societal medical need, and the public they serve. Bandy Lee, MD, MDiv, is a forensic psychiatrist, violence expert, and faculty member of Yale School of Medicine for 17 years, who taught at Yale Law School 15 of those years and consulted with the World Health Organization since 2002. The urgencies she saw with Donald Trump’s election led to her holding the “Duty to Warn” conference, editing The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, and becoming president of the World Mental Health Coalition. “I applaud all of the brave professionals who have spoken out about Trump’s mental illness. He is extremely dangerous, but I don’t know if people in our government will believe it until the unthinkable happens.” – Member of the Public, December 2019

Our “Prescriptions for Survival” began in March 2020 with the onset of the Covid pandemic in the United States. It came with concerns that Donald Trump, in the office of the presidency, would be ill-equipped to handle any crisis. The World Mental Health Coalition therefore issued their first “Prescription”, stating that his removal, or at least removal of his influence, was critical to avoiding a catastrophic death toll. Of course, this did not happen, and the United States, with the world’s greatest concentration of medical and scientific expertise and relatively limitless resources, would come to experience more deaths than any other country—more than 1.1 million mostly unnecessary deaths.The coming years necessitated that mental health experts expand their “Prescription for Survival” to cover more than the pandemic, as the years of having a mentally-impaired president in office and failing to contain him revealed that many of the world’s perils have psychological origins. Some are in dangerous leadership.

Preview of The Dangerous Case of Family Courts.

This book chronicles how judges such as Jane Gallina-Mecca have come to prey on innocent children, loving women, and the child-adult bonds that are the foundations of human society.

Judge Jane Gallina-Mecca is being referred to the New Jersey legislature for impeachment.More than 30 mothers (and one father), as well as 2700 petitioners, have come forward with their enormous pain, as their children have undeservedly become victims of a system that was designed to protect them. Judge Jane Gallina-Mecca of Bergen County, New Jersey, is at the epicenter of their grievance, as she has egregiously mismanaged each of their cases, resulting in their children being trafficked to their abusers. The Judge’s abuses of authority have created unimaginable horrors for many families.The Judge’s repeated failure to conduct thorough investigations, failure to hold violent abusers accountable, but rather rewarding them with sole custody of their victims, child support payments, and no obligations to the parent who raised these children has turned our lives into living nightmares. The issues are not isolated and reflect a larger, egregious pattern of abuses of authority.New York Times bestselling author Dr. Bandy Lee, who has testified in over 200 court cases as an expert witness and before seven different legislatures on Family Court abuses, recounts her experience with Judge Gallina-Mecca.

We do not ordinarily think of family courts as sites of violence, but by denying or, worse, by exploiting the existence of domestic violence and child abuse, family courts have become one of the deadliest places for innocent children and the loving adults who try to protect them. This is the second of two volumes illustrating how it happens.

We do not ordinarily think of family courts as sites of violence, but by denying or, worse, by exploiting the existence of domestic violence and child abuse, family courts have become one of the deadliest places for innocent children and the loving adults who try to protect them. This is the first of two volumes illustrating how it happens.

Dr. Bandy Lee, forensic psychiatrist and violence expert, delivers a stunning testimony on the violence of the family courts before the Arizona Senate Ad Hoc Committee on Family Court Orders.Frankly, ma’am, you put more sunshine on this than many of the people that have testified over the last three hearings.- Senator Mark Finchem, addressing Dr. Bandy Lee

New York Times bestselling author Dr. Bandy X. Lee scarcely remains silent when she sees dangers to the public. Since 2022, she has written a series of Medium articles that exposed, perhaps for the first time, the full extent of Family Court violence. Now, the Family Courts are coming after her in a scorched-earth campaign of censorship. Her articles are therefore published in book form so that, even if Medium is forced to take down her articles by “judicial decree”, the public will still have a way to access them and learn about what is happening in the deep, dark recesses of the so-called “Family Courts.”

It was inevitable that humankind should finally have to confront itself. The rapid growth of human sciences, especially psychology, anthropology, sociology, and social psychology, over the past one hundred years or more has been the main line of the evolution of humanity toward self-consciousness. It is the age-old tension between our path to enlightenment versus our own resistance.We try to acknowledge through the title, “One World or None,” the mission that Albert Einstein, H.H. Arnold, J.R. Oppenheimer, and others announced exactly 75 years ago for humanity’s survival in the Atomic Age. At the time of this writing, the Doomsday Clock, a metaphor for the end of humanity, strikes at 100 seconds, but the next positioning is likely to be even closer to midnight.The World Mental Health Coalition attempts to confront this Psychological Age, where a correct understanding of our own mind and its dynamics has become quintessential to survival. We begin with our core membership of mental health professionals but endeavor to reach out to a broad range of domains to exchange knowledge and to collaborate in developing solutions. This book outlines a town hall series that begins this dialogue.

“What you have accomplished is really therapeutic for those who receive the message, all around the world. Thank you so much for not letting others stop you in your e􀄁orts of communication.” – A member of the public, from Switzerland In April 2017, Yale psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee held an ethics conference by the title, “Does Professional Responsibility Include a Duty to Warn?” The conference drew national attention and led to the New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. She was joined by thousands of mental health professionals from around the country and then the world, hence forming the World Mental Health Coalition. These were historic events. Congress members reached out and asked her to “do your part so that we could do ours”: namely, that she and her colleagues educate the public from a medical perspective so that they could take action from the political domain. Lee and colleagues were successful in raising the issue to become the number one topic of national conversation, and the whole country was hopeful. Then, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) stepped in, and within weeks all discussion with the press came to a halt. Less than two months into the Trump presidency, the APA had turned “the Goldwater rule,” a guideline intended to protect public health into a silencing mechanism that would protect a political figure at the expense of public health. The APA refused any discussions internally but went on campaigns publicly to shut down those who would speak up. Now, it seems only the forerunner of institutions that would behave this way under this administration, including the Department of Justice. Lee has persisted undaunted. From her invited op-eds for the Guardian, Politico, the Boston Globe, and the New York Daily News, to her interviews on CNN, Democracy Now! and Salon, this collection of her expert opinion reads like a historic narrative of a national mental health crisis. With the realization that 70 to 99 percent of deaths from a viral pandemic, the worst economic devastation since the Great Depression, and a potentially looming collapse of democracy are all attributable to one man’s mental compromise, the public has never stopped clamoring for mental health expertise. Authoritarianism rises where authoritative voices—the Free Press and access to experts—diminish. This collection of Lee’s op-eds and interviews is a small antidote.