JUSTIN FRANK MD

The most recent article by Dr. Frank for Time.com is now out and ready to read.  This week he explores how Romney and Obama think, asking the question, who is more thoughtful?  Read more by clicking on the link below.

http://ideas.time.com/2012/05/16/who-is-more-thoughtful-obama-or-romney/?iid=op-main-lede

In celebration of the new edition of Obama on the Couch paperback, Dr. Frank takes a quick look at what prompted him to write the book as well as including a few paragraphs from the epilogue.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/justin-frank/obama-on-the-couch_b_1496363.html

Dr. Frank is extremely happy to announce the new paperback edition of Obama on the Couch today!  For those of you who have not yet read it – and even if you have – there is a new epilogue with updates about Obama’s presidential progress.  As the elections are drawing closer, the race between Obama and Romney will be heating up, making this the perfect time to better understand our President, as well as help him make more of the changes he set out to accomplish at the beginning of his first term.

You can purchase a copy from Amazon or pick one up at your local bookstore.

Dr. Frank wrote a special piece for the Huffington Post earlier this week regarding the newly published photos of U.S. soldiers holding up body parts of slain Afghan rebels.  Read more by clicking on the link below.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/justin-frank/the-virtue-of-being-whole_b_1440653.html

Please check out Dr. Frank’s latest post ‘The President Comes To Grips With Reality’ on Time.com

http://ideas.time.com/2012/04/12/the-president-comes-to-grips-with-reality/

Pornography? Gas prices? Nuclear bombs? Read why Republicans are being driven to such rhetorical extremes in Dr. Frank’s latest column.

Dr. Frank makes his Spanish television debut on Informe Semanal, that nation’s version of 60 Minutes!

http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/informe-semanal/informe-semanal-yes-we-can/1352136/

Out this morning is Dr. Frank’s latest column for Time.com titled How Obama Put Netanyahu in the Corner Over Iran.  Click the link below and read more about how the President’s remarks reveal he’s reached new heights in psychological maturity.

Now out, the latest article written by Dr. Frank on Time.com.  This week Dr. Frank discusses why the President risks shirking his leadership responsibilities by not responding to Republican attacks.  Read more at http://ideas.time.com/2012/02/22/the-price-of-obamas-continued-silence/?iid=op-main-lede.

Exciting news!  Below is a lead article in China Daily about Vice President Xi Jinping‘s visit to the US.  The article describes how a friend of Xi’s from Florida, Mrs. Dvorchak, brought a copy of ‘Obama on the Couch’ to Iowa to give to the visiting Chinese VP.  Below is the full article.

Town ready to welcome return of special guest

She has prepared a gift for Xi: Obama on the Couch, a book by Justin Frank, a highly regarded expert on psychoanalysis.

“I hope it will help Xi understand the man (US President Barack Obama) better and help them get along, so it will lead to a peaceful and successful relationship between China and the US,” she said.

The Dvorchaks visited China in 1987 with a tour group and are hoping to go again. Their son Mark runs a China-related business consulting company in California.

Other folk in Muscatine, including a Chinese language teacher and her students at Muscatine High School, are equally looking forward to the vice-president’s visit.

“He is such an important person from such an important country and all of us want to meet him in person,” teacher Carol Kula said.

Aric Bower, a senior student who has studied Chinese for four years, added: “I was really amazed when I heard Xi was visiting. I never expected him to come to Muscatine.”

For the local newspaper, the Muscatine Journal, it will be the biggest story of the year. Its editor Chris Steinbach has received dozens of calls from the media at home and abroad inquiring about Xi’s trip.

“We will see how people from two different countries get together again after almost 30 years,” he said. “It is pretty unusual and I have never heard anything like this happening before. It shows the importance of friendship and being open-minded about learning about other people’s countries. I think that’s pretty cool.”

Sweet memories

Writer Mark Twain, once writing for the Journal, remembers Muscatine for its sunsets, while Xi remembers the town for its people.

Iowa Governor Branstad said Xi has kept the itinerary of the 1985 Iowa trip. “When I met him last September in Beijing, he mentioned many people he had met in Muscatine,” Branstad said.

Xi Jinping (center) at a picnic at the farm of Janet Rauch in 1985. Janet Rauch / for China Daily

The hospitality of its people and its advanced agricultural industries were the reasons the small city was picked to host the Chinese delegation, Lande said.

“Joan and I had been to China in 1984 with the Sister State program and we were so excited about China, that we wanted them to share our homes and learn about our people,” she said.

As the delegation was on a budget of $400 for three days, most of the local programs then were run by volunteer hosts such as the Dvorchaks.

Xi stayed in the bedroom of their two sons who were at college at that time.

“There were two beds with Star Wars wallpapers and Star Trek toys – a typical middle-class children’s room,” Eleanor said.

After a busy day touring with his delegation, Xi would enjoy some peace and quiet at the Dvorchaks’ place. “I would make him a tea and let him unwind a little bit,” she said.

Most Chinese visitors did not stay with host families at that time, Lande said.

“But that’s one of the things Mr Xi enjoyed so much. He was brought in as part of the family, ate at the breakfast table and stayed in the kids’ room. He really got to see a slice of American life,” she said.

In addition to the tours to farms and companies, the delegation also enjoyed their social time with the hosts.

They had dinners at family homes, went on a boat trip on the Mississippi, had a farmhouse picnic and watched a local baseball game.

“It was the first delegation from China that we had and we were curious about each other,” Axel said. “We talked about the family, business, food, homes, the kids, dogs and so on.”

Xi is remembered as a good delegation leader with a warm heart.

“He was organized, curious and professional with a really warm nature,” Lande said.

“I remember that he had a really nice smile,” Axel said.

According to an article at the time in the Muscatine Journal, Xi said about the 1985 visit: “So far we have learned a lot, seen a lot and achieved a lot. The impression of the US is very good, I think. We have seen a lot of your advanced technology. The people here are very warm and very friendly. They too have left a very deep impression on us.”