 | Shame and Humiliation: Presidential Decision Making on Vietnam Subjects: Vietnamese Conflict 1961–1975 -- United States; United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Eisenhower Dwight D. (Dwight David) 1890–1969 -- Psychology; Johnson Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) 1908–1973 -- Psychology; Nixon Richard M. (Richa; Blema Steinberg adopts a psychoanalytical approach in her examination of the decision making of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Dwight Eisenhower during the Vietnam War. She argues that personality traits, such as narcissism, influenced critical decisions they made about U.S. intervention in Vietnam. Steinberg Blema S. : Blema Steinberg is professor emeritus, McGill University, the author of Shame and Humiliation: Presidential Decision Making on Vietnam, a member of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society, and a practicing psychoanalyst. |
