A First-Rate Madness Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

by Ghaemi, Nassir

• ISBN13: 9780143121336
• ISBN10: 0143121332
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-06-26
• Publisher: Penguin Books

Summary

Ghaemi, who runs the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts University Medical Center, draws from the careers and personal plights of such notable leaders as Lincoln, Churchill, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., JFK, and others from the past two centuries to build an argument at once controversial and compelling 320 pp.

Author Biography

Nassir Ghaemi, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and director of the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. He has published more than a hundred scientific articles and several books on psychiatry.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Inverse Law of Sanity	p. 1
Creativity
Make them Fear and Dread Us: Sherman	p. 23
Work Like Hell-and Advertise: Turner	p. 40
Realism
Heads I Win, Tails It's Chance	p. 51
Out of the Wilderness: Churchill	p. 57
Both Read the Same Bible: Lincoln	p. 68
Empathy
Mirror Neuron on The Wall	p. 79
The Woes of Mahatmas: Gandhi	p. 87
Psychiatry for the American Soul: King	p. 99
Resilience
Stronger	p. 117
A First-Rate Temperament: Roosevelt	p. 130
Sickness In Camelot: Kennedy	p. 147
Treatment
A Spectacular Psychochemical Success: Kennedy Revisited	p. 169
Hitler Amok	p. 187
Mental Health
Homoclite Leaders: Bush, Blair, Nixon, and Others	p. 211
Stigma and Politics	p. 256
Epilogue	p. 266
Acknowledgments	p. 275
Notes	p. 277
Bibliography	p. 319
Index	p. 329
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