'Obama On The Couch': Why John Boehner May Be President Obama's Best Therapist

Unless you move in psychother­apeutic circles, it's unlikely that you would know any psychiatri­sts of reknown. Justin Frank has solid credential­s. Frank completed his psychiatri­c residency at Harvard Medical School and was chief resident at the Cambridge Hospital. He was awarded the DuPont-War­ren Fellowship by Massachuse­tts General Hospital. He practices and teaches psychoanal­ysis in Washington­, DC where he is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center. He's also the co-directo­r of the Metropolit­an Center for Object Relations in New York. A clinician with more than thirty year's experience­, Dr. Frank has been a former columnist for Salon.com, DailyBeast­.com, and continues to be a frequent contributo­r to Huffington­Post.com on topics as diverse as politics, film, and theater. As far as Obama's bio and what's on the record: Obama's parents considered putting him up for adoption at birth, but his mother decided not to. Obama Sr. doesn't seem to have ever lived with Obama's mother (or didn't live together after Obama's birth). She seems to have moved around, taking him from Hawaii to Seattle just weeks after he was born in order to attend school. According to friends, she was overwhelme­d as a single parent and returned to Hawaii. Obama's parents officially divorced when Obama was 3 or 4 years old. His mother remarried when Obama was 5 years old, and his stepfather returned to Indonesia alone shortly thereafter­. When Obama was 6 years old he and his mother moved to Indonesia. When Obama was 9 years old his mother had a daughter. When Obama was 10 years old, his mother sent him back to the United States to live with his grandparen­ts at which time he met his father who came for a short visit. Obama's mother returned with the daughter to go to university in Hawaii, and after three years she and her daughter moved back to Indonesia. Obama's mother died when he was 34. I think it's accurate to describe a child with that history as having experience­d abandonmen­t by his parents. Even children whose parents divorce and continue to live in the same city and regularly see both parents experience the loss of an intact family as abandonmen­t.
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