First, read the BuzzFlash interview with the esteemed author of the exploration of Bush's damaged psyche, Justin A. Frank, M.D., a noted psychiatrist. You can find it here. It is called, "Justin A. Frank, M.D., Author of "Bush on the Couch" Gets to the Heart of the Matter: We Have a Sociopath as President."

Updated version released on October 23, 2007.

Americans have always been uncomfortable about mental health problems, so it is not surprising that there there is no discussion of the impact of having a narcissistic sociopath as our president.

Yet, all the evidence is there before our eyes: delusional behavior, inability to empathize with others, disasscotiaon from the impact of his actions, self-centered behavior, inability to accept personal responsibility, assumption that he is the government, and so on and so on.

You don't need a couch to analyze this baby; you just need a television set.

We normally don't offer a book a THIRD time around on BuzzFlash, but we decided to bring back the excellent psychiatric profile of Bush by Dr. Justin Frank, a D.C.-based psychoanalyst.

Recently -- with the euphemististic adoption of the Bush "surge" in lieu of calling it what it really is: the escaclation of a war without end -- we came to realize even more that our nation is being driven by one person's psychiatric problems, not concerns for our national security.

How ironic that a man touted for his affability and outward empathy is devoid of any inner empathy, the true ability to feel the pain of others.

That is why he keeps sending GIs -- including young women and grandmothers in the reserves -- to their deaths.

Bush feels only self-righteousness and that nothing will prove him wrong, even if others must die for his mistakes. His face must be saved at all costs, including the deaths of others.

We tend to think of Christians from the Midwest and South -- as far as stereotypes -- as regarding pschoanalysis as some kind of self-indulgent weakness. It is viewed by many of the fundies and red staters as the nefarious territory of that cosmopolitan Jew, Dr. Freud. Texans don't need psychological self-exploration; they just need guns and wars to blow away people who get in their way.

Such is the case of one George W. Bush.

"Bush on the Couch" received a brief buzz a couple of years back, but it deserves much more than that.

It is, in essence, the Rosetta Stone to George W. Bush, a man who will not confront his inner demons.

As a result, the world will be destroyed because he is unable to admit that he is capable of error or guilt.

This is a must-read book, because our White House has now transcended politics.

We are into a deep, deep psychoanalytic cul-de-sac, because the patient is non-compliant.