The Riddle of Barack Obama
A Psychobiography
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Product details:
- Publisher Praeger
- Date of Publication 3 August 2010
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9780313385872
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages350 pages
- Size 234x155 mm
- Weight 709 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
An internationally noted clinical psychologist offers readers the first psychological biography of Barack Obama.
The Riddle of Barack Obama: A Psychobiography is the first complete psychological biography of President Barack Obama written by a professional clinical psychologist. Covering Obama's life to date, as well as the lives of his parents, grandparents, and other ancestors, this fascinating volume illuminates the personal, professional, political, emotional, intellectual, and creative aspects of Obama's personality, as well as the motives-conscious and unconscious-for his beliefs and actions.
Dr. Avner Falk draws on hundreds of biographies, newspaper and magazine articles, interviews, investigative reports, and more, using psychoanalytic models developed by Sigmund Freud, Donald Winnicott, Peter Blos, Heinz Kohut, and Schiffer to probe Obama's psychological development. Examining every facet of the president's biography, he delves into his earliest feelings of abandonment and helplessness, his inner conflicts, his protective relationship with his mother, his ambivalent identification with his father, and his quest for identity. Perhaps most intriguingly, Dr. Falk explores the psychological origins of Obama's "fierce ambitions" and the ingredients of his charisma.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. "Gramps" and "Toot"
2. A Girl Named Stanley
3. A Paternal Grandfather Named "The Terror"
4. A Narcissistic and Self-Destructive Father
5. The Fatherless Child and His Unhappy Mother
6. A Stepfather from Indonesia
7. Protecting His Mother
8. Adolescence and the Quest for Identity
9. In His Father's Footsteps
10. Name Change and Identity Struggle
11. The Community as Family
12. Outdoing His Father
13. Michelle: Mentor, Lover, Wife, and Mother
14. Marriage: The New Family
15. Fatherhood and Politics
16. A Humiliating Defeat
17. Fierce Ambitions
18. The Audacity of Ambition
19. Abandoning Another "Bad Father"
20. Obama's Charisma
21. Repairing "Mother America"
22. A Happy Conclusion
References
Index
