Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016
Stephan: I have thought since the 1980s, when Gary Trudeau first began to focus on Donald Trump in Doonesbury, that Trump was a Narcissistic Sociopath. Here is the current formal definition:
"The American Psychiatric Association (2013) describes and defines both
Antisocial Personality Disorder (the clinical term for what is commonly called
psychopathy or sociopathy) and narcissistic personality disorder in its authoritative
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition.
- Antisocial personality disorder is "a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, occurring since age 15 years"
- Narcissistic personality disorder is "a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning in early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts.
Those are separate definitions of these personality disorders. It is possible to be clinically diagnosed with both simultaneously. Cold callousness and lack of empathy for others, plus grandiose self-admiration and disdain for others equals a sociopathic narcissist who believes that she
deserves to exploit people and dispose of them when finished."
It now is becoming apparent that health professionals throughout the country are also beginning to think in this way.
Donald Trump, Republican Presidential Candidate
Credit: Reuters
“Donald Trump is not of sound mind.”
Trump “appears haunted by multiple personality disorders.”
“Donald Trump is not a well man.”
These are the comments of dismayed conservative political analysts who have watched the unorthodox campaign of 2016 GOP nominee Donald Trump lurch from one crisis to another due to the New York businessman’s erratic behavior.
According to the Toronto Star, what started out as whispers about Trump have worked their way up to a scream as it begins to dawn on steadfast Republicans that a man whose mouth they can’t control might be a danger to the country should he ascend to the highest office in the land.
Last week at the Democratic National Convention, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg alluded to Trump’s possible lack of competency, as he endorsed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, saying, “Let’s elect a sane, competent person.”
Questions about Trump’s mental state are nothing new. In an interview in January, Harvard professor and researcher Howard Gardner, […]
I recently visited my mainstream Christian sister in Minnesota and I was surprised when she said “Clinton is an evil woman.”