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Eric Reinhart
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Psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and political anthropologist
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Trump’s health and the medicalization of American politics
Whether it’s Trump’s ankles or Biden’s gait, our leaders’ bodies have become sites for projection and speculation.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Thank you, and thanks for sharing it.
November 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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This connection isn’t articulated often enough.
That is why care has transformative power beyond health. To be truly listened to – to be recognized not as a case but as a person – can change not just how one experiences illness, but how one experiences oneself and the world. It can foster the capacity to care for others across differences, to resist hatred and violence, to build the fragile social ties upon which democracy depends. By contrast, when medicine is reduced to data and transactions, it not only fails patients and demoralizes doctors. It also degrades democracy itself. A system that alienates people in their moments of deepest vulnerability – bankrupting them, gaslighting them, leaving them unheard – breeds despair and rage. It creates the conditions in which authoritarians gain traction.
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM