Justin A. Frank
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| citizenship = United States
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| workplaces = George Washington University
| alma_mater = Harvard Medical School
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Justin A. Frank (born February 25, 1943, in Los Angeles, CA) is an American author who practices and teaches psychoanalysis in Washington, DC. Frank is a frequent contributor to The Huffington Post on topics as diverse as politics, film, and theater. He is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center.
Frank completed his psychiatric residency at the Harvard Medical School and became the chief resident at the Cambridge Hospital. Frank was awarded the DuPont-Warren Fellowship by Massachusetts General Hospital. Frank is also the {{Nowrap|co-director}} of the Metropolitan Center for Object Relations in New York.
Frank employs the principles of applied psychoanalysis to put together the kind of psychological profile used in his books about U.S. presidents: Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President, which was extensively quoted from by Fidel Castro in his annual speech in 2004, and Obama on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. In 2018, he published Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President.
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{{cite web
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| title = Justin Frank
| publisher = Huffingtonpost
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| url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/justin-frank
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| accessdate = Nov 9, 2012
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{{cite book
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=cbO_S92HrOIC&q=bush+on+couch
| author = Justin A. Frank
| title = Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President
| publisher = Regan Books/HarperCollins
| date = 2004
| location = New York
| isbn = 9780061739781
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{{cite book
| url = https://archive.org/details/obamaoncouchinsi00fran
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| quote = bush on couch.
| author = Justin A. Frank
| title = Obama on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President
| publisher = Free Press/Simon & Schuster
| date = October 18, 2011
| location = New York
| isbn = 978-1451620641
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{{cite web
| last = Sandy, Psy.D.
| first = Debby
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| title = Interview with Justin Frank
| publisher = Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies (CIPS)
| date = Aug 9, 2011
| url = http://cipsusa.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,print,0&cntnt01articleid=7&cntnt01showtemplate=false&cntnt01returnid=49
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| accessdate = Nov 9, 2012
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{{cite news
| url = http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/27/1090693944160.html?from=storyrhs
| title = Castro to Bush: Cuba's no sex haven
| publisher = Sydney Morning Herald
| date = 2004-07-27
| accessdate = 2016-04-11
| quote = He questioned Bush's mental capacities, quoting from the "Bush on the couch" book to describe the US president as a past alcoholic.
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{{cite news
| url = http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5526645/ns/world_news/t/castro-responds-bushs-prostitution-charges/#.VwwjV-ArKVM
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140218205208/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5526645/ns/world_news/t/castro-responds-bushs-prostitution-charges/#.VwwjV-ArKVM
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| archive-date = February 18, 2014
| title = Castro responds to Bush's prostitution charges
| work = NBC News
| author = Mary Murray
| date = 2004-07-27
| accessdate = 2016-04-11
| quote = Castro quoted Frank, who delves into Bush’s professed bout with alcoholism and argues that his history of untreated alcohol abuse could impair his judgment.
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{{cite news
| url = http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/06/16/bush_on_couch/print.html
| title = The Inner W
| publisher = Salon magazine
| author = Laura Miller
| date = 2004-06-20
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| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20040619210919/http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/06/16/bush_on_couch/index_np.html
| archivedate = 2004-06-19
| accessdate = 2016-04-11
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{{cite news
| url = http://www.weeklystandard.com/Check.asp?idArticle=4644&r=uyavx
| title = Shrinking the President: A mind is a dangerous thing to psychoanalyze
| publisher = The Weekly Standard
| author = Irwin Savodnik
| date = 2004-09-18
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| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20040923023629/http://www.weeklystandard.com/Check.asp?idArticle=4644&r=uyavx
| archivedate = 2004-09-23
| accessdate = 2016-04-11
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|url = http://www.politicalaffairs.net/book-review-bush-on-the-couch-by-justin-frank/
|title = Book Review – Bush on the Couch, by Justin Frank
|publisher = Political Affairs
|author = Don Sloan
|date = 2003-10-03
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160327221133/http://politicalaffairs.net/book-review-bush-on-the-couch-by-justin-frank/
|archivedate = 2016-03-27
|accessdate = 2016-04-11
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{{cite web
| last = Castro Ruz
| first = Fidel
| authorlink = Fidel Castro
| title = Speech delivered by Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba
| publisher = Portal Cuba
| date = July 26, 2004
| url = http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/discursos/2004/ing/f260704i.html
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| accessdate = Nov 10, 2012
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{{cite news
| url = http://www.cbsnews.com/news/castro-blasts-bush-on-sex-charges/
| title = Castro Blasts Bush On Sex Charges
| work = CBS News
| author = Lloyd Vries
| date = 2004-07-24
| accessdate = 2016-04-11
| quote = Quoting extensively from the book "Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President" by Dr. Justin A. Frank, Castro suggested that Mr. Bush's accusations against Cuba's socialist government may be rooted in his untreated alcoholic past.
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Category:George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences faculty
Category:American psychology writers
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