Why Wall Street Deserves a Bonus
Dr. Doug Hirschhorn is one of the premier trading coaches on Wall Street, whose client list includes Deutsche Bank and numerous billion-dollar hedge funds. The co-author of The Trading Athlete and the forthcoming 8 Ways to Great, he is a former columnist for Trader Monthly, and a regular commentator on CNBC.
Obama says that instead of billions in bonuses, the banking industry needs a change of culture. Doug Hirschhorn goes inside the Wall Street mind-and reports its denizens really have learned a lesson.
News Shrink: The Lovesick Statesman
News Shrink
The release of Gov. Mark Sanford's emails to his mistress prove he's not a Spitzer, a Clinton, or an Edwards-he's a lovesick adolescent. The Daily Beast gets a psychologist to shrink America's latest love guv from afar.
Losing Money Is Good for My Narcissistic Wall Street Patients
Dr. Stephen C. Josephson is an Associate Professor at both Cornell University Medical Center-New York Hospital and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He currently directs Behavioral Medicine Associates, a private group practice based in NYC and Chappaqua.
To paraphrase The Notorious B.I.G., "Mo money, mo problems." The Daily Beast's News Shrink on what his patients can learn from watching their fortunes dwindle.
Bush is Broken, Frightened, And Plagued By Voices
Justin A. Frank is a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and a teaching analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. He is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and author of Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President.
Psychiatrist Justin Frank, author of Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, says Bush's final speech revealed a fragile man still fighting imaginary enemies to battle his inner demons.
Madoff's Houdini Syndrome
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Despite his yacht and penthouse, Bernard Madoff wasn't in it for money. The Daily Beast's News Shrink on what Wall Street's biggest fraudster shares with the world's greatest magician.
Gamblers Take Note
News Shrink
From McCain's smile to Obama's hands, our team of psychiatrists on what the candidates were really saying. By Drs. Stephen Josephson...
What McCain Was Really Saying
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Psychiatrists deconstruct the hidden conversation during last night's debate.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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