In Search of Bill Clinton : A Psychological Biography寻找克林顿——著名心理学家对克林顿的心理分析

作者： John Gartner著

出 版 社： 中国科学技术大学出版社

出版时间： 2008-9-30字数：版次： 1页数： 466印刷时间： 2008/09/30开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780312369767包装： 精装编辑推荐

“John Gartner's new book,In Search of Bill Clinton, will,Ithink,help solve the riddle of the forty-second president:how a man with such superhuman talent could risk his entire life's work,as he did over Monica Lewinsky,In a wonderfully engaging quest,Gartner—a highly experienced therapist—does what no psychologist has bothered to do over the past two decades of Clinton watching:interview those who grew up with the man and have intimate knowledge of his strengths and weaknesses.Wrtten with lucidity,humor,compassion,and amazing insight,it is a tour de force that not only helps explain one of the smartest yet complex men of our time,but shines a fascinating spotlight onto the problem of the supergifted individual in our society.”

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From Publishers Weekly

The language of clinical psychology can convey detachment—or, as in this starstruck study of the 42nd president, gushing admiration. Deploying his trademark diagnosis, Johns Hopkins psychologist Gartner (The Hypomanic Edge) pegs Clinton as a hypomanic personality with boundless energy and charisma, but prone to impulsive appetites and lapses in judgment. The author attributes much of Clinton's psyche to genes (many inherited, he argues, from an illegitimate father he tentatively identifies), but he also embraces Freudian notions: Clinton's relationships with women, Gartner contends, follow a pattern established in childhood when he felt torn between his bossy, Hillaryesque grandmother and his lushly erotic, Monica-like mother. Gartner sometimes overreaches—We can almost see Clinton going through the stages of his relationship with [stepfather] Roger in his approach to Bosnia—but his analysis of Clinton's political talents, right down to his mesmerizing facial expressions while on receiving lines, yields intriguing insights. The author himself unabashedly surrenders to Clinton's magnetism and genius intellect: [H]e has been walking in the footsteps of moral giants, Gartner rhapsodizes about Clinton during an AIDS-relief junket, comparing him to Jesus as a healer of the sick. Nevertheless, Gartner reminds us why this complex figure still fascinates. 17 pages of b&w photos. (Oct.)

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目录

PART Ⅰ:ORIGINS

1.Like Mother,Like Son

2.Searching for Bill Clinton's Father

3.One in a Quadrillion

4.The Boy Who Walked to Church Alone

PART Ⅱ:ARKANSAS POLITICS

5.Three Pairs of Shoes

6.The Education of Governor Clinton

PART Ⅲ:THE PRODIGY PRESIDENT PROSPERITY AND PEACE

7.It's the Economy,Genius

8.A Thousand Welcomes

PART Ⅳ:IMPEACHMENT-GATE

9.The Horse-Whipping

10.Monica and Bill:A Romantic Tragedy

11.High Noon

PART Ⅴ:AFRICA:JULY 2007

12.Healing the Sick

Epilogue

List of Interviews

Notes

Index