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A FIRST-RATE UNCOVERING THE LINKS BETWEEN LEADERSHIP AND MENTAL ILLNESS NASSIR GHAEMI the penguin press New York 2011 9781594202957_FirstRate_FM_pi-xii.indd iii 03/06/11 12:48 AM 9781594202957_FirstRate_FM_pi-xii.indd ii 03/06/11 12:48 AM A FIRST-RATE 9781594202957_FirstRate_FM_pi-xii.indd i 03/06/11 12:48 AM A FIRST-RATE UNCOVERING THE LINKS BETWEEN LEADERSHIP AND MENTAL ILLNESS NASSIR GHAEMI the penguin press New York 2011 9781594202957_FirstRate_FM_pi-xii.indd iii 03/06/11 12:48 AM THE PENGUIN PRESS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd) Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi— 110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), 67 Apollo Drive, Rosedale, Auckland 0632, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England First published in 2011 by The Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Copyright © Nassir Ghaemi, 2011 All rights reserved Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint an excerpt from “Home After Three Months Away” from Collected Poems by Robert Lowell. Copyright © 2003 by Harriet Lowell and Sheridan Lowell. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Excerpt from Aristotle’s Problemata from “The Paradox of Genius and Madness: Seneca and His Influence” by Anna Lydia Motto and John R. Clark, Cuadernos de Filología Clásica (Editorial Complutense, Madrid, 1992). Excerpt from On the Road by Jack Kerouac (Penguin Books). Copyright © Jack Kerouac, 1955, 1957. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Ghaemi, S. Nassir. A fi rst- rate madness: uncovering the links between leadership and mental illness / Nassir Ghaemi. p. ; cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1 -101-50819-0 1. Depressed person—P sychology. 2. Depression, Mental. 3. Leadership— Psychological aspects. I. Title. [DNLM: 1. Mentally Ill Persons— psychology. 2. Mood Disorders. 3. Leadership. 4. Temperament. 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Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated. 9781594202957_FirstRate_FM_pi-xii.indd iv 03/06/11 12:48 AM To my father, Kamal Ghaemi, MD, and my mother, Guity Kamali Ghaemi, and for Heather, Valentine, and Zane 9781594202957_FirstRate_FM_pi-xii.indd v 03/06/11 12:48 AM Why is it that all those who have become above average either in philosophy, politics, poetry or the arts seem to be melancholy, and some to such an extent that they are even seized by the dis eases of black bile? —Aristotle, Problemata, section XXX The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn. —Jack Kerouac, On the Road 9781594202957_FirstRate_FM_pi-xii.indd vii 03/06/11 12:48 AM CONTENTS THE INVERSE LAW OF SANITY INTRODUCTION: 1 PART ONE CREATIVITY MAKE THEM FEAR AND CHAPTER ONE DREAD US: SHERMAN 23 WORK LIKE HELL—AND CHAPTER TWO ADVERTISE: TURNER 40 PART TWO REALISM HEADS I WIN, TAILS IT’S CHANCE CHAPTER THREE 51 OUT OF THE WILDERNESS: CHAPTER FOUR CHURCHILL 57 BOTH READ THE SAME BIBLE: LINCOLN CHAPTER FIVE 68 PART THREE EMPATHY MIRROR NEURON ON THE WALL CHAPTER SIX 79 THE WOES OF MAHATMAS: GANDHI CHAPTER SEVEN 87 9781594202957_FirstRate_FM_pi-xii.indd ix 03/06/11 12:48 AM PSYCHIATRY FOR THE CHAPTER EIGHT AMERICAN SOUL: KING 99 PART FOUR RESILIENCE STRONGER CHAPTER NINE 117 A FIRST- RATE TEMPERAMENT: CHAPTER TEN ROOSEVELT 130 SICKNESS IN CAMELOT: KENNEDY CHAPTER ELEVEN 147 PART FIVE TREATMENT A SPECTACULAR PSYCHOCHEMICAL CHAPTER TWELVE SUCCESS: KENNEDY REVISITED 169 HITLER AMOK CHAPTER THIRTEEN 187 PART SIX MENTAL HEALTH HOMOCLITE LEADERS: CHAPTER FOURTEEN BUSH, BLAIR, NIXON, AND OTHERS 211 STIGMA AND POLITICS CHAPTER FIFTEEN 256 EPILOGUE 266 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 275 NOTES 277 BIBLIOGRAPHY 319 INDEX 329 9781594202957_FirstRate_FM_pi-xii.indd x 03/06/11 12:48 AM A FIRST-RATE 9781594202957_FirstRate_FM_pi-xii.indd xi 03/06/11 12:48 AM
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