Michael J Tansey, PhD
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       312-560-1353    1723 N Dayton St  Lincoln Park  Chicago,IL 60614
          The following links will take you to articles I have published on the Huffington Post and, most recently, Medium.com They focus on psychological aspects of the Sandy Hook massacre; corruption in the NRA and politics; psychological topics of general interest to the public; police brutality and the impact of videos; an ongoing series on the psychology of Donald Trump; my letter to the editor of New York Times; and my chapter in the NYT Bestseller The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump (2017).

"Why 'Crazy Like a Fox' versus 'Crazy Like a Crazy' Really Matters: Delusional Disorder, Admiration of Brutal Dictators, and the Nuclear Codes," in The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump (Macmillan, 2017).

08/31/2017 Letter to the editor of the New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/31/opinion/president-trump-mental-fitness.html?_r=0 (third letter in sequence) 


01/18'2018
The Bill Press Show, TV interview regarding DJT's extreme psychological instability, 23 minutes, beginning at 1 hour 7 minutes, January 18th program.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkO4CiVosGk&t=4016s

03/15/2018
Trump’s Rogue Rage: We are Not Nearly as Afraid as We Should Be

02/26/2018
Trump’s Preposterous Delusion of Heroism: A Clinical Perspective In the densely populated world of untruths told by Trump, I have elsewhere harped on the need to distinguish between his garden variety…


02/23/2018
Axis of Evil: Trump, Putin, and the NRA In Trump’s Mad Max presidential campaign to Make America Hate Again, he enthusiastically welcomed the support of anyone who came forward…
Published Feb 23

​01/15/2018
Part XVI. “THIS IS NOT A DRILL”: Response to Jeffrey Lieberman

12/05/2017
Part XV. What is Delusional Disorder? Why is it so Difficult to Grasp? How does it Apply to Trump?


11/28/2017
Part XIV. Response to “Trump’s Judgment is Debatable. His Sanity is Not”: Hubris and Hypocrisy

11/11/2017
Part XIII. The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: A Letter to Congress

 
​09/20/2017
​Part XII. Donald Trump: The Eye of the Hurricane

07/18/2017
Part XI. Rogue Rage and Presidential Power
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​​​03/19/2017
Part X. Trump And The Codes: Why “Crazy Like A Fox” Vs. “Crazy Like A Crazy” Really Matters
Part XIV. Response to “Trump’s Judgment is Debatable. His Sanity is Not”: Hubris and Hypocrisy

03/08/17
Part IX. Should Professionals Speak out Regarding Trump: Frances vs. Dodes and Gartner

02/23/17
Part VIII. Delusional Disorder: Diagnostic Criteria for Evaluating the Mental Health of Donald Trump—You Make the Call


12/27/16
Part Vll. Is Alec Baldwin a Terrorist?

11/26/16
Part VI. The Silent Minority Speaks

11/08/16
Part V: With A Trump Loss, Will There Be Blood?

09/19/16
Part IV. A Clinical Perspective: Why Does Trump Admire Brutal Dictators?


08/19/16
Part III. The Psychological Meltdown of Donald Trump: A Clinical Perspective

08/09/16
Part II. Being Donald Trump: Delusions, Dishonesty And The Empathy Of A Hornet’s Nest

08/03/16
Diagnostic Criteria For Evaluating The Mental Illness of DT — You Make the Call

06/22/16
Part 2: An NRA Lobbyist, A Domestic Terrorist, And 53 Republican Senators Walk Into A Bar...

12/16/15
A Gun Lobbyist, a Domestic Terrorist, and 53 Republicans Senators Walk into a Bar...

12/02/15
Horror and Hope in the Murder of Laquan McDonald

10/07/15
Live Video: Its Impact on Police Brutality; Its Absence in Mass Murders

12/09/14
The Tale of Two Tapes

06/18/14
Coping With the Anguish of Fertility Treatment

03/20/14
Psychotherapy? Medication? Both? Neither?

02/27/14
Searching for a Great Psychotherapist

12/13/13
Our Year of Living Dangerously

06/28/13
Guns, Demoralization, and the Saboteur Within

03/27/13
Guts and Guns

03/08/13
PTSD: The Invisible Laceration

01/21/13
It’s the Guns, Stupid!

01/11/13
Guns, Lies, and Suicides

01/04/13
Guns Don’t Kill People... Lax Laws Kill People
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12/19/12
When Children Are Slaughtered



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