By Avner Falk
The Riddle of Barack Obama: A Psychobiography is the 1st whole mental biography of President Barack Obama written by way of a qualified medical psychologist. protecting Obama's lifestyles so far, in addition to the lives of his mom and dad, grandparents, and different ancestors, this interesting quantity illuminates the non-public, expert, political, emotional, highbrow, and inventive facets of Obama's character, in addition to the motives--conscious and unconscious--for his ideals and actions.
Dr. Avner Falk attracts on thousands of biographies, newspaper and journal articles, interviews, investigative reviews, and extra, utilizing psychoanalytic versions built via Sigmund Freud, Donald Winnicott, Peter Blos, Heinz Kohut, and Schiffer to probe Obama's mental improvement. reading each part of the president's biography, he delves into his earliest emotions of abandonment and helplessness, his internal conflicts, his protecting dating along with his mom, his ambivalent id along with his father, and his quest for identification. probably such a lot intriguingly, Dr. Falk explores the mental origins of Obama's "fierce targets" and the constituents of his aura.
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