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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMental health experts: Trump's been out of sight because he's been out of his mind
What is Donald Trump doing right now? He has not spoken in public for several days, though he and his wife posed for a Veterans Day photo-op at Arlington Cemetary. The White House is still barricaded within a non-scalable fence, similar to the one it erected when the president went into bunker mode in June. There are ominous firings within the Pentagon, lots of ALL-CAPS tweets, reports that Jared Kushner and other insiders have tried to talk him into conceding, and even one report that he is devouring fast food.
While we cannot read a persons mind, mental health professionals have an excellent understanding of Donald Trump, thanks to the more abundant and higher-quality information available about him than almost any patient we have ever treated. Direct reports from close associates about their interactions with him, under sworn testimony, from the highest-order criminal investigations are just one example. Personal interviews are of little value at best and misleading at worst with the kind of pathology in Donald Trump.
Hell hath no fury like a pathological narcissist scorned.
Since dozens of mental health experts put together our bestselling public-service book, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, at the start of this presidency, all our warnings have been realized, almost as if on schedule. We now feel the need to warn againagainst his rage. We have done so before and were on the mark when we warned against what became a massacre of our Kurdish allies and the assassination of a top Iranian general, to the surprise even of Pentagon officials. We knew what the outcome of his disastrous mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic would become, before it happened, as our blow-by-blow account reveals. When we speak of his rage, we do not mean any garden-variety rage but the kind pathological narcissism portends, with any level of destruction.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/mental-health-experts-trumps-been-out-of-sight-because-hes-been-out-of-his-mind/
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Mental health experts: Trump's been out of sight because he's been out of his mind (Original Post)
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liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)1. trump has a mind?
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)2. Great article. This sentence rather leaps off the page:
Shame is worse than death for a pathological narcissist, because it exposes some flaw in him, even if it is a natural human flaw.
Shame Intolerance is superficially dealt with in The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, in nowhere near the depth it is explored in this article.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)3. Mike Pence has been duly warned. n/t
-Laelth
LeftishBrit
(41,205 posts)4. Was he ever in it?