The Big Truth

Jafrankmd
3 min readJan 11, 2022

Close readers of my 2018 book, Trump on the Couch, reached out to me in the 24-hours before January 6, 2022, urging that the book’s core premise needs to be aired yet again. So here it is: Donald Trump is a damaged person who in turn damages everything and everyone he touches. This is not a diagnosis. It’s an historical fact.

But my concern one year after the violent coup attempt is not simply about Trump. He is alone and unloved by…

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Jafrankmd

Dr. Justin A. Frank MD is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst best known as the quintessential expert in the psychology of the 21st-century American presidents.