The Psychology of a Dictator: An American Psychiatrist Profiles Putin

Ken Dekleva is a psychiatrist who has spent over twenty-five years carefully analyzing adversary foreign leaders and making leadership assessments for the national security and policy community. Among his most high-profile assignments were the five years he spent at US Embassy in Moscow, providing medical support to US diplomats and their families, and also carefully studying the leadership style of Russia’s President Putin. Based upon this experience, Dekleva sheds light on what we can expect from Putin who is increasingly ostracized and facing Day 320 of his three-day war.

Dekleva has recently published a new mystery novel, The Negotiator’s Cross, about an American priest, pulled into a dangerous world of hostage negotiations in Mexico and Russia, which test his mettle, and most importantly, his faith, in a series of life and death scenarios.