Robert Samuels teaches writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He is also President of UC-AFT, the union representing 4,000 librarians and lecturers (non-tenured faculty) in the UC system, and has authored seven books, including Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free.

• Chapter 1. Victim Politics: Psychoanalyzing the Neoliberal Conservative Counter-Revolution.- Chapter 2. Beyond Hillary Clinton: Obsessional Narcissism and the Failure of the Liberal Class.- Chapter 3. Trump and Sanders on the Couch: Neoliberal Populism on the Left and the Right.- Chapter 4. Global Solidarity and Global Government: The Universal Subject of Psychoanalysis and Democracy.- Chapter 5. Conclusion.

“Psychoanalyzing the Left and Right after Donald Trump applies psychoanalytic theory to analyze the contemporary politics surrounding the 2016 election of the 45th president of the United States of America. … Students and teachers from a wide range of psychological disciplines with an interest in current politics may find this book an interesting example of the connection between contemporary issues relevant to the public and the historically fundamental concepts of psychology’s founding theories.” (Kara Ayers, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (11), March, 2017)