Robert S Robins
Biographic Data
| ID | 207895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert S Robins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert S |
| FAMILY NAME | Robins |
| SIGNATURE | ROBINS R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Architects of Empire
Prophetic Charisma
Book Review| April 01 1999 Prophetic Charisma: The Psychology of Revolutionary Religious Personalities Prophetic Charisma: The Psychology of Revolutionary Religious Personalities. By Len Oakes. Syracuse University Press, 1997. 246 pages. $30.00 cloth. Robert S. Robins Robert S. Robins Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (1999) 2 (2): 321–322. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.1999.2.2.…
Eisenhower's Heart Attack
Journal Article Eisenhower's Heart Attack: How Ike Beat Heart Disease and Held On to the Presidency. By Clarence G. Lasby. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. xiv, 384 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0822-2.) Get access Robert S. Robins Robert S. Robins Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1132–1133,…
Political paranoia
Robert S. Robins and Jerrold M. Post, M.D., experts in political psychology, document and interpret the malign power of paranoia in a variety of contexts - in political movements like McCarthyism; in organizations like the John Birch Society; in leaders like Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Jim Jones, and David Koresh; and among extreme groups that commit violence in the name of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Indeed, Robins and Post show that the para…
Choosing a Healthy President
This article considers the requirement for-but dilemmas in-health screening of presidential candidates. It surveys the experience the United States has had since 1931 with the health of candidates for the presidency, especially those who have been elected. The tripartite role of the president-as chief executive, as party leader, and as national symbol/model-is stressed. Several instances of deception, or at least lack of candor, are described. Th…
When Illness Strikes the Leader
When Illness Strikes the Leader
Journal Article When Illness Strikes the Leader: The Dilemma of the Captive King. By Jerrold M. Post and Robert S. Robins. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. xviii, 243 pp. ISBN 0-3000-5683-4.) Get access Robert H. Ferrell Robert H. Ferrell Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Page 237, https://doi.org/10.…
When Illness Strikes the Leader
Stress and Political Leadership
The literature on stress and political leadership typically views such potential stressors as time-pressure, severe consequences for bad decisions, inadequate information, and conflicting demands as negative influences on political performance. We know, however, that many politicians thrive on or even require such circumstances. Drawing on medical, historical, psychiatric, psychological, and political science literature, this essay proposes that …
The Paranoid Theme in the Career of José Gaspar de Francia of Paraguay
This essay evaluates the alleged paranoia of the nineteenth century Paraguayan dictator, José Gaspar de Francia. Francia was highly suspicious in his rise to power, but not pathologically so. Prudent though brutal preemption would best describe his behavior up to about the age of fifty. Afterwards, this suspiciousness developed into a paranoidal personality disorder, and perhaps into the psychosis of paranoia
The Mental Side of Physical Illness
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Captive King and His Captive Court
Drawing on case material from recent and past history, this paper systematically examines the effects of leader disability on political decision making and behavior, giving special attention to the complex relationship between the disabled leader and his inner circle. Four groups of factors are examined: (1) factors related to the illness itself, including whether the illness is physical or mental, and whether the disability is temporary or prete…
Ethical Dilemmas of the President's Physician
During the 1984 presidential campaign, questions were raised concerning President Reagan's cognitive integrity in the televised debates. He hesitated before answering questions, appeared to lack attentiveness, and had difficulty remembering and finding words to accurately express his thoughts. These signs, sometimes indicative of early dementia, were reportedly intensified during the 1987 Reykjavik Conference, at which time the President was crit…
The Paranoid Political Actor
The psychodynamics and clinical phenomenology of the paranoid position are related to the phenomenon of the paranoid political actor. The paranoid political actor's interaction with the environment has characteristics of a self-fulfilling prophecy, for his defensive aggression ultimately creates a genuinely hostile environment which he at first only delusively fears. While the flagrant paranoid is usually recognized as ill, the unrecognized paran…
Psychopathology and Political Leadership
Votes, seats, and the critical Indian election of 1967
(1979). Votes, seats, and the critical Indian election of 1967. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 247-262
Language, Religion and Politics in North India. Paul R. Brass
Political Anthropology
Essays on Gandhian Politics
Political Elite Formation in Rural India
India
Journal Article India: Judicial Panchayats in Uttar Pradesh Get access Robert S. Robins Robert S. Robins *Duke University, Department of Political Science Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 11, Issue 2, Spring 1962, Pages 239–246, https://doi.org/10.2307/838710 Published: 01 April 1962
Votes, seats, and the critical Indian election of 1967
(1979). Votes, seats, and the critical Indian election of 1967. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 247-262
When Illness Strikes the Leader
Ethical Dilemmas of the President's Physician
During the 1984 presidential campaign, questions were raised concerning President Reagan's cognitive integrity in the televised debates. He hesitated before answering questions, appeared to lack attentiveness, and had difficulty remembering and finding words to accurately express his thoughts. These signs, sometimes indicative of early dementia, were reportedly intensified during the 1987 Reykjavik Conference, at which time the President was crit…
Choosing a Healthy President
This article considers the requirement for-but dilemmas in-health screening of presidential candidates. It surveys the experience the United States has had since 1931 with the health of candidates for the presidency, especially those who have been elected. The tripartite role of the president-as chief executive, as party leader, and as national symbol/model-is stressed. Several instances of deception, or at least lack of candor, are described. Th…
When Illness Strikes the Leader
Journal Article When Illness Strikes the Leader: The Dilemma of the Captive King. By Jerrold M. Post and Robert S. Robins. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. xviii, 243 pp. ISBN 0-3000-5683-4.) Get access Robert H. Ferrell Robert H. Ferrell Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Page 237, https://doi.org/10.…
Stress and Political Leadership
The literature on stress and political leadership typically views such potential stressors as time-pressure, severe consequences for bad decisions, inadequate information, and conflicting demands as negative influences on political performance. We know, however, that many politicians thrive on or even require such circumstances. Drawing on medical, historical, psychiatric, psychological, and political science literature, this essay proposes that …
The Captive King and His Captive Court
Drawing on case material from recent and past history, this paper systematically examines the effects of leader disability on political decision making and behavior, giving special attention to the complex relationship between the disabled leader and his inner circle. Four groups of factors are examined: (1) factors related to the illness itself, including whether the illness is physical or mental, and whether the disability is temporary or prete…
India
Journal Article India: Judicial Panchayats in Uttar Pradesh Get access Robert S. Robins Robert S. Robins *Duke University, Department of Political Science Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 11, Issue 2, Spring 1962, Pages 239–246, https://doi.org/10.2307/838710 Published: 01 April 1962
India
Journal Article India: Judicial Panchayats in Uttar Pradesh Get access Robert S. Robins Robert S. Robins *Duke University, Department of Political Science Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 11, Issue 2, Spring 1962, Pages 239–246, https://doi.org/10.2307/838710 Published: 01 April 1962
Political Elite Formation in Rural India
Essays on Gandhian Politics
Political Anthropology
Language, Religion and Politics in North India. Paul R. Brass
Votes, seats, and the critical Indian election of 1967
(1979). Votes, seats, and the critical Indian election of 1967. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 247-262
Psychopathology and Political Leadership
The Paranoid Political Actor
The psychodynamics and clinical phenomenology of the paranoid position are related to the phenomenon of the paranoid political actor. The paranoid political actor's interaction with the environment has characteristics of a self-fulfilling prophecy, for his defensive aggression ultimately creates a genuinely hostile environment which he at first only delusively fears. While the flagrant paranoid is usually recognized as ill, the unrecognized paran…
Ethical Dilemmas of the President's Physician
During the 1984 presidential campaign, questions were raised concerning President Reagan's cognitive integrity in the televised debates. He hesitated before answering questions, appeared to lack attentiveness, and had difficulty remembering and finding words to accurately express his thoughts. These signs, sometimes indicative of early dementia, were reportedly intensified during the 1987 Reykjavik Conference, at which time the President was crit…
The Captive King and His Captive Court
Drawing on case material from recent and past history, this paper systematically examines the effects of leader disability on political decision making and behavior, giving special attention to the complex relationship between the disabled leader and his inner circle. Four groups of factors are examined: (1) factors related to the illness itself, including whether the illness is physical or mental, and whether the disability is temporary or prete…
The Mental Side of Physical Illness
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Stress and Political Leadership
The literature on stress and political leadership typically views such potential stressors as time-pressure, severe consequences for bad decisions, inadequate information, and conflicting demands as negative influences on political performance. We know, however, that many politicians thrive on or even require such circumstances. Drawing on medical, historical, psychiatric, psychological, and political science literature, this essay proposes that …
The Paranoid Theme in the Career of José Gaspar de Francia of Paraguay
This essay evaluates the alleged paranoia of the nineteenth century Paraguayan dictator, José Gaspar de Francia. Francia was highly suspicious in his rise to power, but not pathologically so. Prudent though brutal preemption would best describe his behavior up to about the age of fifty. Afterwards, this suspiciousness developed into a paranoidal personality disorder, and perhaps into the psychosis of paranoia
When Illness Strikes the Leader
Journal Article When Illness Strikes the Leader: The Dilemma of the Captive King. By Jerrold M. Post and Robert S. Robins. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993. xviii, 243 pp. ISBN 0-3000-5683-4.) Get access Robert H. Ferrell Robert H. Ferrell Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Page 237, https://doi.org/10.…
When Illness Strikes the Leader
Choosing a Healthy President
This article considers the requirement for-but dilemmas in-health screening of presidential candidates. It surveys the experience the United States has had since 1931 with the health of candidates for the presidency, especially those who have been elected. The tripartite role of the president-as chief executive, as party leader, and as national symbol/model-is stressed. Several instances of deception, or at least lack of candor, are described. Th…
When Illness Strikes the Leader
Eisenhower's Heart Attack
Journal Article Eisenhower's Heart Attack: How Ike Beat Heart Disease and Held On to the Presidency. By Clarence G. Lasby. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. xiv, 384 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0822-2.) Get access Robert S. Robins Robert S. Robins Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1132–1133,…
Political paranoia
Robert S. Robins and Jerrold M. Post, M.D., experts in political psychology, document and interpret the malign power of paranoia in a variety of contexts - in political movements like McCarthyism; in organizations like the John Birch Society; in leaders like Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Jim Jones, and David Koresh; and among extreme groups that commit violence in the name of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. Indeed, Robins and Post show that the para…
Prophetic Charisma
Book Review| April 01 1999 Prophetic Charisma: The Psychology of Revolutionary Religious Personalities Prophetic Charisma: The Psychology of Revolutionary Religious Personalities. By Len Oakes. Syracuse University Press, 1997. 246 pages. $30.00 cloth. Robert S. Robins Robert S. Robins Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Nova Religio (1999) 2 (2): 321–322. https://doi.org/10.1525/nr.1999.2.2.…
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