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发帖数: 1932 | 1 He is a compulsive liar who creates his own fantasy world. Trump is also
extremely moody and impulsive. Trump’s advisers have to satisfy his extreme
narcissism and nurture his detachment from reality by presenting him — on
a twice-daily basis — with a file folder full of “good news”. Fellow
Republicans have been recorded on a hot mike suggesting that Trump may be “
crazy.” The American news media, as well as commentators from other
countries, have voiced serious concerns about Trump’s mental health and the
threat it poses to global security.
Clinically, if we were to look at the checklist for sociopathy, what are
some of the indicators that Trump is presenting?
It is people who lie and cheat. Everybody lies some of the time, but in this
instance we mean people who lie as a way of being in the world, to manage
relationships and also to manage your feelings about yourself. People who
cheat and steal from others. People who lack empathy … the lack of empathy
is a critical aspect of it. People who are narcissistic.
Trump’s case of narcissism is particularly severe because he also is out of
touch with reality whenever he becomes upset. When he says, “I had the
largest crowd at an inauguration in history,” it does not matter that you
can tell him that it is not true, he still insists on it. Well, that is very
troublesome because what it means is that he needs to believe it. He is
able to give up reality in exchange for his wished-for belief. Sometimes we
call that a delusion. We have not used that word much with Donald Trump
because that does get confused with people who think that they are Napoleon.
But Trump has a fluid sense of reality, which is a sign of a very sick
individual. Sociopathy itself is a sign of a very sick individual, someone
with a lying, cheating and emotional disorder. The intersection of those two
occurs in sociopathy. It is not just bad behavior that people have to lie
and cheat the way he does, it is an incapacity to treat other people as full
human beings. That is why his focus is on humiliating others to aggrandize
himself, as he did in the Republican primaries when he was debating and
calling people names. The same thing applies to Hispanic immigrants and
separating the children from their parents. That is a very, very serious
mental and emotional problem. Normal people have normal empathy. It is part
of being a human being. Lying and cheating and humiliating others and
grinding them into dust in order to triumph is not just bad behavior. It is
a serious mental illness.
http://www.salon.com/2017/09/12/harvard-psychiatrist-lance-dodes-donald-trump-is-a-sociopath-and-a-very-sick-individual/ |
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