Double D: are you calling US military researchers quacks? lol sorry, but this is the same form of behavioral science that our military uses to assess everyone from rank-and-file soldiers to world leaders.
two things here -- 1. i read another personality profile of GWB that essentially adds up to him being a "dry drunk." for those not familiar with the term, an alcoholic can be DRY (not actively drinking) without being SOBER. someone who is dry but not sober has stopped drinking but has replaced alcohol with something else (gambling, religion, etc.). that something else may appear to be a positive thing (like religion), but it in essence does the job that alcohol used to do -- cover up pain, numb emotions or give a sense of elation or a "high," etc. i talked to several alcoholism treatment professionals who agreed with the synopsis.
2. analyze ANYONE and you're going to see a lot of stuff that sounds like the person is full-blown bat crap crazy and out of touch with reality. especially when you get into freudian territory, the very terminology sounds "creepy" and "weird." you can take the most well-respected person in the world, and when you start talking about his urge to kill his dad and have sex with his mom... well, that's some pretty freaky stuff, period!
personally, i give props to freud for being the father of modern psychology ONLY in that he made it permissable to talk about the "reasons underlying the reasons" for human behavior. i do NOT subscribe to his view that child development is all about sexual urges and such, and i also don't trust his theories because he saw what was going on at the time (namely, girls and women being molested) and, due to victorian values, refused to DO anything about this; instead he came up with the theory that these women were merely WISHING that their fathers, cousins, and uncles were having sex with them. outrageously unethical. not to mention the fact that freud did enough cocaine to kill an army. :P
