Interview: "Does Donald Trump have a sense of his own limitations?"
"Deep down, absolutely. That's why he's constantly on guard. He's paranoid".
When he demands power, "he's doing so from a place of pathology. He's doing so in a way that actually fuels his sense of insecurity, of his unfitness, of his unbelonging."
"So he will increasingly become more defensive, dangerous & tyrannical."
Dr Bandy X. Lee, forensic psychiatrist
@DrALJONES I would like to hear a psychiatrist discuss Trump, not as a malignant narcissist, but as a sadistic psychopath.
...relationships among the Dark Triad (DT) traits—Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy—are well-established in psychological literature. However, with the inclusion of everyday sadism in the proposed Dark Tetrad, it is important to determine whether sadism adds significant explanatory power beyond psychopathy...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886924004331
Yes, agree.
However, the APA has silenced its members from using technical psychiatric terms about public figures.
Obviously bought/threatened by the Trump administration. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7wDDQMBIp4 .
PS "narcissistic psychopathy" and "malignant narcissism" are used interchangeably & include cruelty as a symptom.
Yes, and they're still warning, just not employing the technical diagnostic terms.
DrALJONES
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