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

Name: First-Rate Madness Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
Price: 3.71 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780143121336

ISBN-10: 0143121332

ISBN-13: 9780143121336

Edition: 2012

Authors: Nassir Ghaemi

List price: $19.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

3 new & used from $3.71

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

Historians have long puzzled over the apparent mental instability of great and terrible leaders alike: Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, Hitler, and others. In A First-Rate Madness, Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Mood Disorders Program at Tufts Medical Center, offers a myth-shattering exploration of the powerful connections between mental illness and leadership and sets forth a controversial, compelling thesis: the very qualities that mark those with mood disorders also make for the best leaders in times of crisis. From the importance of Lincoln’s “depressive realism” to the lackluster leadership of exceedingly sane men as Neville Chamberlain, A First-Rate Madness overturns many of our most…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/26/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.43" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Introduction: The Inverse Law of Sanity



Creativity



Make them Fear and Dread Us: Sherman



Work Like Hell-and Advertise: Turner



Realism



Heads I Win, Tails It's Chance



Out of the Wilderness: Churchill



Both Read the Same Bible: Lincoln



Empathy



Mirror Neuron on The Wall



The Woes of Mahatmas: Gandhi



Psychiatry for the American Soul: King



Resilience



Stronger



A First-Rate Temperament: Roosevelt



Sickness In Camelot: Kennedy



Treatment



A Spectacular Psychochemical Success: Kennedy Revisited



Hitler Amok



Mental Health



Homoclite Leaders: Bush, Blair, Nixon, and Others



Stigma and Politics


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index