Stanley Renshon


Stanley Renshon is a professor of political science at the City [University of New York Graduate Center], Lehman College and is a psychoanalyst.
Renshon grew up in New Jersey, went to college at Rutgers University, and then obtained a master's degree in international relations at American University, as well as a PhD in political science at the University of Pennsylvania. He entered a clinical psychology doctoral program at Long Island University, and received psychoanalytic training and certification at the Institute for Self Psychology. His wife Judith is also a psychoanalyst. He has two children Jonathan with Judith and David from a previous marriage to Nancy Sue Hano
Renshon has published fifteen books and approximately ninety professional articles related to presidential politics, leadership and political psychology. His book about Bill Clinton, High Hopes: The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition, was awarded the Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis for the best published work in the category of biography in 1998 and the 1997 Richard E. Neustadt Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book published on the presidency.

Books

  • Barack Obama and the Politics of Redemption
  • National Security in the Obama Administration: Reassessing the Bush Doctrine
  • The Bush Doctrine and the Future of American National Security Policy
  • Understanding the Bush Doctrine: Psychology and Strategy in an Age of Terrorism
  • The 50% American: National Identity in a Dangerous Age
  • In his Father's Shadow: The Transformations of George W. Bush
  • Good Judgment in Foreign Policy: Theory and Research
  • America's Second Civil War: Political Leadership in a Divided Society
  • One America?: Political Leadership, National Identity, and the Dilemmas of Diversity
  • Political Psychology: Cultural and Cross-cultural Foundations
  • High Hopes: The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition
  • The Psychological Assessment of Presidential Candidates
  • The Clinton Presidency: Campaigning, Governing and the Psychology of Leadership
  • The Political Psychology of the Gulf War
  • The Handbook of Political Socialization: Theory and Research
  • Psychological Needs and Political Behavior