Jerrold M Post – an unsung trailblazer in profiling

Jerrold Post, a psychological profiler for the CIA, whose expertise about the mental illness of foreign leaders made him much in demand in the White House, has died. Latterly he published “Dangerous Charisma” on Trump defying the APA’s ‘Goldwater Rule’ about publishing analytical critiques of individuals without their consent.  Born 8 February 1934 in Connecticut, he put himself through Yale and Harvard and went onto an action-packed life marrying his triple pa