Johns Hopkins Psych finally said it: Malignant Narcissism [View all]

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http://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2017-01-27/does-donald-trumps-personality-make-him-dangerous?src=usn_tw

John D. Gartner, a practicing psychotherapist who taught psychiatric residents at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, minces as few words as the president in his professional assessment of Trump.

"Donald Trump is dangerously mentally ill and temperamentally incapable of being president," says Gartner, author of "In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography." Trump, Gartner says, has "malignant narcissism," which is different from narcissistic personality disorder and which is incurable.

This is actually an enormous risk professionally. We've had a rule since the 1960s called the Goldwater Rule that prevents us from making diagnoses at a distance.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder is also incurable, at least with current methods. It can be managed, sometimes.