Michael Diamond, PhD, FIPA, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies. He is a Fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Clinical Psychology.  He has published over one hundred journal articles and book chapters as well as four books across wide-ranging topics, including psychoanalytic technique and analytic mindedness; trauma and dissociation; masculinity, femininity, and gender theory; fathering and the paternal function; hypnosis and altered states; and group processes and social action. He is well known for national and international presentations and is the honored recipient of numerous awards for his teaching, writing, and clinical contributions. His four previous books are: Masculinity and Its Discontents: The Male Psyche and the Inherent Tensions of Maturing Manhood (Routledge 2021), The Second Century of Psychoanalysis: Evolving Perspectives on Therapeutic Action (Karnac 2011), My Father Before Me: How Fathers and Sons Influence Each Other Throughout Their Lives (Norton 2007), and Becoming a Father: Contemporary Social, Developmental, and Clinical Perspectives (Springer 1995). Several of his publications have been translated into other languages, including German, Portuguese, Korean, Arabic, Mandarin, and French. He has a full-time clinical practice in Los Angeles, California, where is also active in teaching, supervising, and writing.

'Michael J. Diamond’s book Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times is a book I highly recommend. [...] Psychoanalysts, more than ever before, need to take psychoanalytic ideas and concepts beyond the consulting room. Diamond has written a vital and important book (of which I have only touched the surface) that does indeed take psychoanalytic thinking into the larger sociopolitical world and uses a psychoanalytic lens to both examine current sociopolitical dynamics and explore possibilities for change and hope as we journey into the future.'

• AcknowledgmentsAbout the authorPreface CHAPTER 1Introduction: Exploring the Nonrational, Unconscious Dimensions in American Politics CHAPTER 2Democracy and Populism: Sociopolitical Perspectives on the American Experiment CHAPTER 3Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Destructive Populism and Large-Group Regression: The Rise of Trumpism in the US CHAPTER 4Psychotic Processes, Paranoia, and Conspiratorial Thinking in Large Groups CHAPTER 5The Malignant Leader’s “Perversion” of the Containing Function and the Perils of Cultism CHAPTER 6Containing Trumpism and Destructive Populism: Addressing, Encompassing, and Restraining Regressive Malignant Dynamics CHAPTER 7Concluding Thoughts: A Plea For Hope In These Uncertain Times  GLOSSARY OF TERMS REFERENCES INDEX

Michael Diamond, PhD, FIPA, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies. He is a Fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Clinical Psychology.  He has published over one hundred journal articles and book chapters as well as four books across wide-ranging topics, including psychoanalytic technique and analytic mindedness; trauma and dissociation; masculinity, femininity, and gender theory; fathering and the paternal function; hypnosis and altered states; and group processes and social action. He is well known for national and international presentations and is the honored recipient of numerous awards for his teaching, writing, and clinical contributions. His four previous books are: Masculinity and Its Discontents: The Male Psyche and the Inherent Tensions of Maturing Manhood (Routledge 2021), The Second Century of Psychoanalysis: Evolving Perspectives on Therapeutic Action (Karnac 2011), My Father Before Me: How Fathers and Sons Influence Each Other Throughout Their Lives (Norton 2007), and Becoming a Father: Contemporary Social, Developmental, and Clinical Perspectives (Springer 1995). Several of his publications have been translated into other languages, including German, Portuguese, Korean, Arabic, Mandarin, and French. He has a full-time clinical practice in Los Angeles, California, where is also active in teaching, supervising, and writing.

'Michael J. Diamond’s book Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times is a book I highly recommend. [...] Psychoanalysts, more than ever before, need to take psychoanalytic ideas and concepts beyond the consulting room. Diamond has written a vital and important book (of which I have only touched the surface) that does indeed take psychoanalytic thinking into the larger sociopolitical world and uses a psychoanalytic lens to both examine current sociopolitical dynamics and explore possibilities for change and hope as we journey into the future.'

• AcknowledgmentsAbout the authorPreface CHAPTER 1Introduction: Exploring the Nonrational, Unconscious Dimensions in American Politics CHAPTER 2Democracy and Populism: Sociopolitical Perspectives on the American Experiment CHAPTER 3Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Destructive Populism and Large-Group Regression: The Rise of Trumpism in the US CHAPTER 4Psychotic Processes, Paranoia, and Conspiratorial Thinking in Large Groups CHAPTER 5The Malignant Leader’s “Perversion” of the Containing Function and the Perils of Cultism CHAPTER 6Containing Trumpism and Destructive Populism: Addressing, Encompassing, and Restraining Regressive Malignant Dynamics CHAPTER 7Concluding Thoughts: A Plea For Hope In These Uncertain Times  GLOSSARY OF TERMS REFERENCES INDEX

Michael Diamond, PhD, FIPA, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies. He is a Fellow of the International Psychoanalytical Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Clinical Psychology.  He has published over one hundred journal articles and book chapters as well as four books across wide-ranging topics, including psychoanalytic technique and analytic mindedness; trauma and dissociation; masculinity, femininity, and gender theory; fathering and the paternal function; hypnosis and altered states; and group processes and social action. He is well known for national and international presentations and is the honored recipient of numerous awards for his teaching, writing, and clinical contributions. His four previous books are: Masculinity and Its Discontents: The Male Psyche and the Inherent Tensions of Maturing Manhood (Routledge 2021), The Second Century of Psychoanalysis: Evolving Perspectives on Therapeutic Action (Karnac 2011), My Father Before Me: How Fathers and Sons Influence Each Other Throughout Their Lives (Norton 2007), and Becoming a Father: Contemporary Social, Developmental, and Clinical Perspectives (Springer 1995). Several of his publications have been translated into other languages, including German, Portuguese, Korean, Arabic, Mandarin, and French. He has a full-time clinical practice in Los Angeles, California, where is also active in teaching, supervising, and writing.

'Michael J. Diamond’s book Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times is a book I highly recommend. [...] Psychoanalysts, more than ever before, need to take psychoanalytic ideas and concepts beyond the consulting room. Diamond has written a vital and important book (of which I have only touched the surface) that does indeed take psychoanalytic thinking into the larger sociopolitical world and uses a psychoanalytic lens to both examine current sociopolitical dynamics and explore possibilities for change and hope as we journey into the future.'

• AcknowledgmentsAbout the authorPreface CHAPTER 1Introduction: Exploring the Nonrational, Unconscious Dimensions in American Politics CHAPTER 2Democracy and Populism: Sociopolitical Perspectives on the American Experiment CHAPTER 3Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Destructive Populism and Large-Group Regression: The Rise of Trumpism in the US CHAPTER 4Psychotic Processes, Paranoia, and Conspiratorial Thinking in Large Groups CHAPTER 5The Malignant Leader’s “Perversion” of the Containing Function and the Perils of Cultism CHAPTER 6Containing Trumpism and Destructive Populism: Addressing, Encompassing, and Restraining Regressive Malignant Dynamics CHAPTER 7Concluding Thoughts: A Plea For Hope In These Uncertain Times  GLOSSARY OF TERMS REFERENCES INDEX