In The Media
Below is a sampling of news media interviews and articles featuring or by Harper West, Psychology Expert and Media Commentator.
DC Report article, December 2020, “Whatever He Wants: Why Donald Trump’s Supporters Stay with Him No Matter What” by Harper West and Bandy X. Lee. With the vote of the Electoral College confirming the election result of Joe Biden’s win, many are asking: How do we heal the country?
“How Trump short-circuits his supporters’ brains — and makes them blind to the fact he’s harming them,” July 2019. Raw Story spoke with Harper West, a clinical psychologist who studies emotional problems as adaptive responses to fear, trauma, and lack of secure attachment, about the odd relationship between Donald Trump and his supporters.
“So, Does George Conway Have a Point About President Trump and Narcissistic Personality Disorder? We asked a bunch of mental health professionals.” by Jack Holmes in Esquire, March 2019. Excerpt, quote from Harper West: “Because we have far more evidence on Trump’s behaviors and mental functioning than any patient who self-reports their behaviors to us…I believe this permits mental health professionals to offer [that Trump possibly] meets criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder…”
Article, May 2020, “How to escape our abusive relationship with Trump: Or the president will continue to sow distrust and fear and manufacture chaos” by Bandy X. Lee, Harper West and Kevin Washington. “For many of us, watching both the unwavering cult-like support of Donald Trump and the passivity of some of the news media is confusing and frustrating…”
Interview on The Pet Show with Dr. Katy Nelson, WJLA ABC-7 Washington, DC, September 28, 2013, discussing Pack Leader Psychology (Interview starts at 1:45)
Article on “Shame: The Emotion that Explains Trump, Hate Groups — AND the ‘Better Angels of Our Nature'” on The Daily Kos website, August 17, 2017
Part 1: Interview on Doctor on Call with Dr. Jane Greer, SoundCloud, 2014, discussing Pack Leader Psychology
Part 2: Interview on Doctor on Call with Dr. Jane Greer, SoundCloud, 2014, discussing Pack Leader Psychology
Interview on “How to Be a Pack Leader” (PDF) in New Living Magazine, a New York City-area wellness publication, August 2013
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