Praise for Trump Bubbles
Bill Eddys latest book, Trump Bubbles, takes his high-conflict personality analysis into a sweeping look at political leaders and the high-risk effect of their personal patterns of behavior. At times frightening, insightful and hopeful, this book is a fascinating read about important issues. Narcissistic political leaders are highly attractive, but also can be very dangerous.
JOSEPH BURGO, PhD, clinical psychologist and author of
The Narcissist You Know: Defending Yourself Against Extreme
Narcissists in an All-About-Me Age
Bill Eddy comes through in the nick of time with this tremendous exploration of high-conflict personalities in politics. Whether you are an anxious voter, a citizen whos fed up with American politics, or someone whos tired of drama in leadership, this book is for you. Nobody understands the psychological dynamics of high-profile and high-conflict politicians, or how to deal with them, better than Eddy. Get this book now, read it, and apply whats inside. Trump Bubbles may be one of the most significant and needed books of the decade.
NATE REGIER, PhD, CEO of Next Element Consulting
and author of Beyond Drama: Transcending Energy Vampires and
Conflict without Casualties: A Field Guide for Leading
with Compassionate Accountability
Picking up on the themes that Bill Eddy and I wrote about in our book Splitting America, published just before the 2012 presidential election, Trump Bubbles offers a stimulating, insightful, and in-depth historic analysis of previous political and economic bubbles that, predictably, have risen and fallen over the years, and carries us forward into the unsettling 2016 presidential electionwith its worrisome Trump phenomenon. Bills well-documented explanation of this phenomenon is fascinating and informative, as he clearly illustrates the perils for our nation of having a high-conflict person in a major leadership position of power.
DONALD T. SAPOSNEK, PhD, author of
Mediating Child Custody Disputes: A Strategic Approach and
co-author of Splitting America: How Politicians, Super PACs and the
News Media Mirror High Conflict Divorce
From the rise and fall of Nazi Germany, to McCarthyism, to the Vietnam War and the Iraq War, Eddy points out how political leadership by narcissistic personalities is nothing new. Whats new are the recent cultural, economic, and social changesincluding American media practicesthat have created the perfect storm of American politics in 2016. Eddy offers concrete recommendations on how each of us can respond to Trump bubbles now and in the future. This book should be required reading before voting for any candidate.
ALISON L. PATTON, Esq., attorney, mediator, and
contributing writer to Huffington Post and lemonadedivorce.com
No matter where you stand on the politic spectrum, you have a responsibility to read this book. Bill Eddy brings the reality of our world into focus through the lenses of history, psychology, and politics. He gives us all a way to make sense of the high-conflict culture in which we live and offers the long-overdue gift of sound, down-to-earth advice about how to maintain our sanity, if not our civilization. If only Trump Bubbles had been in print seventy or eighty years ago, humanity would today be in a far healthier place.
BENJAMIN D. GARBER, PhD, author of
Holding Tight/Letting Go, Developmental Psychology for
Family Law Professionals, and Keeping Kids Out of the Middle
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Copyright 2016 by Bill Eddy
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Also by Bill Eddy:
Splitting America: How Politicians, Super PACS, and the News Media Mirror High-Conflict Divorce, with Donald Saposnek
Its All Your Fault at Work! Managing Narcissists and Other High-Conflict People, with L. Georgi DiStefano
BIFF: Quick Responses to High-Conflict People, Their Personal Attacks, Hostile Email, and Social Media Meltdowns (Second Edition)
So, Whats Your Proposal? Shifting High-Conflict People from Blaming to Problem-Solving in 30 Seconds
Its All Your Fault! 12 Tips for Managing People Who Blame Others for Everything
High Conflict People in Legal Disputes
New Ways for Work Coaching Manual & Workbook: Personal Skills for Productive Relationships, with L. Georgi DiStefano
Dont Alienate the Kids! Raising Resilient Children While Avoiding High Conflict Divorce
Splitting: Protecting Yourself While Divorcing with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorder, with Randi Kreger
Managing High Conflict People in Court
The Future of Family Court
New Ways for Families in Separation and Divorce:
Professional Guidebook
Parent Workbook
Collaborative Parent Workbook
Decision Skills Class Instructors Manual & Workbook
Pre-Mediation Coaching Manual & Workbook
Dedicated to future leaders everywhere:
May you learn to build bridges and not walls.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
D ONALD TRUMP is potentially the most dangerous person in politics since Adolf Hitler. Not because of his politics (which are ever changing), but because of his personality (which is never changing).
Trump has a seductive US-against-THEM personality style that far exceeds any other candidate, Republican or Democrat, and can inspire violence. Sure, there was Stalin, Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein, and other ruthless dictators. But Hitler took a cultured democracylike oursand turned it into a hate machine that he led into World War II.
Cant happen here? There are many high-conflict personality warning signs that say it can. Donald Saposnek and I predicted some of this in 2012 in our book Splitting America.