Distinguished psychiatrist provides only reasonable explanation for deranged illogic of 'The Liberal Mind'
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The latter, posits Lyle Rossiter, Jr., M.D., with penetrating analysis in "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness." The radical left's politics and its destructive effects on our basic freedoms have provoked many to speculate on what makes these people tick. "The Liberal Mind" answers these questions, providing the first expert systematic analysis of the political madness that now threatens to destroy the West's greatest achievement: the American dream of civilized liberty. Rossiter reveals modern liberalism's assaults on:
"Modern liberalism's irrationality can only be understood as the product of psychopathology. So extravagant are the patterns of thinking, emoting, behaving and relating that characterize the liberal mind that its relentless protests and demands become understandable only as disorders of the psyche," declares Rossiter. Board-certified in both general and forensic psychiatry, Rossiter has diagnosed and treated mental disorders for more than 40 years. He received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago and served as a psychiatrist in the Army. Currently in private practice, Rossiter has been retained by numerous public offices, courts and private attorneys as a forensic psychiatrist, consulting in more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases in both state and federal jurisdictions. The Liberal Mind" reveals the madness of the modern liberal for what it is: a massive transference neurosis acted out in the world's political arenas, with devastating effects on the institutions of liberty. |