A First-Fee Insanity: Uncovering the Hyperlinks Between Management and Psychological Sickness

“A provocative thesis . . . Ghaemi’s e-book deserves excessive marks for authentic pondering.” —The Washington Publish

“Provocative, fascinating.” —Salon.com

Historians have lengthy puzzled over the obvious psychological instability of nice and horrible leaders alike: Napoleon, Lincoln, Churchill, Hitler, and others. In A First-Fee Insanity, Nassir Ghaemi, director of the Temper Problems Program at Tufts Medical Heart, presents a myth-shattering exploration of the highly effective connections between psychological sickness and management and units forth a controversial, compelling thesis: The very qualities that mark these with temper issues additionally make for the most effective leaders in instances of disaster. From the significance of Lincoln's "depressive realism" to the lackluster management of exceedingly sane males as Neville Chamberlain, A First-Fee Insanity overturns a lot of our most cherished perceptions about greatness and the thoughts.