RE: One Month into his term, Trump goes....back on the campaign trail?
February 17, 2017 at 7:53 pm
(February 17, 2017 at 7:30 pm)Mathilda Wrote: Understanding Trump’s narcissism could be the key to opposing him
Quote:Making a formal diagnosis without an assessment would be misguided, but in some situations, I imagine psychiatrists would be obliged to make their concerns about a politician’s mental health known. If a public official was displaying clear signs of a serious mental illness such as psychosis and had not received the necessary help, psychiatrists should notify the relevant authorities for the sake of the individual as well as the public, so an assessment can be conducted. However, that is not the situation we are in and irrespective of the ethics of their assertions, those who believe that Trump has a mental illness are wrong for the clinical reasons outlined by Frances.
Trump does have multiple narcissistic traits, he simply does not qualify for a diagnosis of the personality disorder
Trump does indeed have multiple narcissistic traits – the grandiose sense of self importance; the preoccupation with power, success and beauty; the need for admiration and the sense of entitlement – but without distress or impairment he simply does not qualify for a diagnosis of the personality disorder. Furthermore, the speculative diagnosis of malignant narcissism – said to include aspects of narcissism, sadism, psychopathy and aggression – is not recognised in either of the two major diagnostic manuals used by psychiatrists around the world, so should be disregarded. No “alternative diagnoses” allowed.
Quote:Declaring Trump mentally ill and calling for his removal may be erroneous and unethical, but we must not close the door on understanding his thinking and predicting his behaviour by shutting down the discourse around his personality.
The really scary thing is that Trump has the largest, most sophisticated nuclear arsenal in the World, and if he gives the order to launch, such must be obeyed without question.
