Jerrold M. Post, Specialist in Political Psychology, Dies at 86
He invented the field at the C.I.A., producing influential “psychobiographies” of world leaders. He later used the same methods to analyze Donald Trump.
Dr. Jerrold M. Post at his home in Bethesda, Md., in 2004. President Jimmy Carter attributed the success of the Camp David accords in part to Dr. Post’s psychological assessments of the Israeli and Egyptian leaders.Credit.Doug Mills/The New York Times
Dec. 12, 2020
In August 1978, shortly before the opening of negotiations between Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel and President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt at Camp David, President Jimmy Carter paid a visit to C.I.A. headquarters in Langley, Va.