{"product_id":"the-riddle-of-barack-obama-avner-falk-9780313385872","title":"The Riddle of Barack Obama: A Psychobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn internationally noted clinical psychologist offers readers the first psychological biography of Barack Obama.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Riddle of Barack Obama: A Psychobiography\u003c\/i\u003e is the first complete psychological biography of President Barack Obama written by a professional clinical psychologist. Covering Obama's life to date, as well as the lives of his parents, grandparents, and other ancestors, this fascinating volume illuminates the personal, professional, political, emotional, intellectual, and creative aspects of Obama's personality, as well as the motives--conscious and unconscious--for his beliefs and actions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDr. Avner Falk draws on hundreds of biographies, newspaper and magazine articles, interviews, investigative reports, and more, using psychoanalytic models developed by Sigmund Freud, Donald Winnicott, Peter Blos, Heinz Kohut, and Schiffer to probe Obama's psychological development. Examining every facet of the president's biography, he delves into his earliest feelings of abandonment and helplessness, his inner conflicts, his protective relationship with his mother, his ambivalent identification with his father, and his quest for identity. Perhaps most intriguingly, Dr. Falk explores the psychological origins of Obama's \"fierce ambitions\" and the ingredients of his charisma.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Avner Falk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0313385874\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780313385872\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Praeger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/03\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2010 pg. 71","brand":"Avner Falk","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086483042559,"sku":"9780313385872","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_341004d9-4bab-4c93-a59b-e3c6954ac10f.jpg?v=1769094925","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-riddle-of-barack-obama-avner-falk-9780313385872","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}