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Stephen J. Ducat is an author, political psychologist, psychoanalyst, and former psychology professor in the School of Humanities at New College of California, where he taught courses in political psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and psychohistory.From the beginning of his career as a psychologist and writer, he has been ceaselessly plagued by what drives people to support autocrats and persecute out-groups, even at the cost of their material self-interest. His history of publications reflects those long-standing concerns. For several years, the political psychology blog he wrote for HuffPost took up those questions from various perspectives, one of which was selected for the anthology Race in William Shakespeare's Othello (Greenhaven Press, 2012). A version of another appeared among a collection of essays in River of Fire: Commons, Crisis, and the Imagination (Pumping Station, 2016), along with contributions by Mike Davis and Rebecca Solnit. Ducat's last book, The Wimp Factor: Gender Gaps, Holy Wars, and the Politics of Anxious Masculinity, features wide-ranging essays on the psychology of public life.His doctorate is from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. He completed his psychoanalytic training at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and is a licensed psychologist in California and Oregon.
""A remarkably well-written and lucid excavation of the current political psyche. The growth of tribalism, the propensity for treating political antagonists as ""psychological wastebins,"" and the seductions of authoritarianism are only a few of the tough subjects Stephen Ducat takes on in this astute and necessary book."" --Laura Kipnis, New York Times Editor's Choice author of Love in a Time of Contagion: A Diagnosis ""With so many books about Trump, it is refreshing to read one that analyzes the power he has over his followers... Dr. Ducat is a psychoanalyst who lives in a rural setting awash with Trump signs and MAGA hats, making this deep dive into what he calls 'tribal psychology' unusually authentic and well-worth reading."" --Justin A Frank, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President ""...His is the most compelling analysis of these distressing truths I have read since Hannah Arendt's."" --Mark Solms, PhD, author of The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness ""...Stephen J. Ducat lucidly synthesizes the psychological and tribalistic roots of today's democracy crisis. This is a wide-ranging and penetrating look at how we got to this sorry pass in our national life and how we might move beyond it..."" --Jonathan Alter, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, NBC and MSNBC political analyst, and New York Times bestselling author of His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, A Life ""... Ducat pulls no punches while positioning himself in a complex and thoughtful way without disavowal and sanctimony..."" --Neil Altman, PhD, author of The Analyst in the Inner City: Race, Class, and Culture Through a Psychoanalytic Lens and White Privilege: Psychoanalytic Perspectives ""...Written with panache, Ducat's study successfully asks us to dwell more deeply and darkly into the meanings of our current crisis."" --Richard Steigmann-Gall, PhD, a contributor to Fascism in America: Past and Present and author of The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, 1919-1945
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