Click Here to View: Why Ailing Trump Is Paranoid About Mental Decline: The Daily Beast Podcast on You Tuble.
Dr. John Gartner joins Joanna Coles to explain why Donald Trump’s worsening paranoia, erratic behavior, and visible health problems point to a dangerous mix of malignant narcissism and possible frontotemporal dementia. Drawing on clinical practice and the shift toward observable diagnostic criteria, Gartner argues that Trump’s public performances reveal more than enough: the “25th time” fixation, the aspirin theories, the right-side weakness, and the drifting, rambling speeches. The conversation ends with a stark question: What happens when a country is governed by a man whose greatest vulnerability is his own deteriorating mind?
Click Here to Read: Naloxone for the Cell Phone: An Absurd Antidote to the Greatest Addiction in History (Vol. 6; Issue 2) by Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD on his Journeys Into the Unconscious Mind website on January 14, 2026.
Two women text messaging on their cell phones in a coffee shop on the campus of California State University, Fullerton Image: Paul Martin Lester. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Dante and Milton, Religion and Politics: Four centuries and a thousand miles apart, each epic poet was traumatized by bloody factional strife that tore his country to pieces. One craved a worldwide monarchy. The other supported a regicide by Jamey Hecht on his Substack on January 6, 2026.
Gustav Doré, Satan Confronting Sin and Death at the Gates of Hell, c 1880. Woodcut on wove paper by Francois Pannemaker and Albert Doms. Collection of the Satanic Temple. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. 
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Dear Colleagues and Friends:
We’re excited to bring you Symposium 2026 titled “PsychE/PsychAI”. The meeting is Saturday, April 18 in Goldwurm Auditorium at Mount Sinai (live and virtual). Dr. Dennis Charney, MD will give the Plenary and receive the Freud Award. Dr. Todd Essig, PhD will give the Keynote. Distinguished faculty include David Forrest, MD, Amy Levy, PsyD and Heather Berlin, PhD among other leading experts.
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Click Here to Read: Accountability: We must never just turn the page by Elliot Kirschner on his Throught the Fog Substack on January 10, 2026.
Protesters at Foley Square by the federal government building protesting the ICE killing of Renee Good hours earlier. People spoke at the monument, before walking around 26 Federal Plaza, and ending back at Foley Squar Image: SWinxy. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
