Posted on 01/27/2017 7:03:27 PM PST by AndyJackson
If there’s one thing we can say about Donald Trump, it’s that he’s unlike any other world leader we’ve seen to date. The problem, however, is that his differences fail to set him apart in a positive manner.
Almost daily, Trump tweets about the “biased media,” “fake news,” or a world leader who has suddenly done something so terrible that he must take to Twitter to publicly berate them. Notice, however, that it’s always someone else with the problem. It’s never him.
However, John D. Gartner, a registered psychotherapist from the renowned Johns Hopkins University Medical School seems to think Trump may, in fact, be the one with the problem. Gartner, who teaches psychiatric residents at Hopkins, decided to break the ethical code known as the “Goldwater Rule” in order to warn the American public about the dangerousness of our new commander-in-chief’s mental state.
The “Goldwater Rule” is defined as “the informal term for part of the ethics code of the American Psychiatric Association saying it is wrong to provide a professional opinion of a public figure without examining that person and gaining consent to discuss the evaluation.”
Trump’s Democratic challenger, Hillary Clinton called it first. She said Trump is “temperamentally unfit” to serve as president, following his numerous sexist remarks about women, mocking of a disabled reporter, and blatantly racist statements about basically every single human being who isn’t white.
Gartner, who is also the author of In Search of Bill Clinton: A Psychological Biography, says “Donald Trump is dangerously mentally ill and temperamentally incapable of being president.”
According to USNews, Gartner unofficially diagnosed Trump with “malignant narcissism.” Although he himself has not personally examined Trump, Gartner claims it’s obvious from watching even a little of his behavior that he meets the diagnostic criteria for the disorder. Some of the characteristics include:
Gartner says that individuals with malignant narcissism often lack impulse control and empathy. He also says many who suffer from this disorder believe that others around them don’t recognize their greatness.
‘We’ve seen enough public behavior by Donald Trump now that we can make this diagnosis indisputably,’ Gartner claims.
As Psychology Today notes, “Malignant Narcissists will go to great lengths to achieve their aim. They can be intelligent, high functioning (hold an important job for example) soft-spoken, charming, tearful/seemingly emotional, gracious, well-mannered, kind and have the ability to form relationships. They may lie, falsely accuse, dramatize, smear, cheat, steal, manipulate, accuse, blame or twist to get what they want and feel justified in doing so. Because they are entitled, egocentric and desperate, they do not experience it as wrong.”
Malignant narcissists are:
‘Determined to gratify their wishes and furious if thwarted. Their desire can be so consuming that there is little comprehension of, respect for or ability to empathize with the other. They lack guilt or remorse and tend to feel or pronounce that it is they who have been mistreated. They can be of any gender, race or social class.’
As if that weren’t enough, malignant narcissism is incurable.
So there you have it. The leader of the United States of America is more than likely a malignant narcissist who has the fate of the free world in his two tiny hands. Not to mention, he now has access to the United States government’s nuclear codes. If that’s not terrifying, we don’t know what is.
Seems to me that much of what he says applies to all politicians and especially the Clintons and especially Hillary.
What he doesn't understand is that Trump is operating inside the media's OODA loop. He is in their heads. He knows where he is going and they can't get a clue so they spew and lie and fabricate and spew and vomit garbage like this piece
Gee, none of us ever thought that Obama was a malignant narcissist, did we?
Anti-social behavior
Sadism
Aggressiveness
Paranoia
Grandiosity
Entitled
Regressed
Manipulative
Destructive
Egocentric
Use of projection
Lack of conscience
Narcissistic
Sounds a lot like the last President.
Standard issue leftist projection.
•Anti-social behavior NO
•Sadism NO
•Aggressiveness YES
•Paranoia NO
•Grandiosity YES
•Entitled NO
•Regressed NO
•Manipulative NO
•Destructive NO
•Egocentric YES
•Use of projection NO
•Lack of conscience NO
•Narcissistic NO
Of course.
They’ll make an exception and compromise their values with a conservative, and protect the privacy and reputation of a liberal.
How obvious.
Maybe we should do an analysis of him and post it for the whole world to see and see how he likes it.
Where is this ***hole’s “diagnosis” of Obonzo?
“...malignant narcissism is incurable...”
HA! John D. Gartner doesn’t see that he suffers from the very same ‘malignant narcissism’ that he accuses DJT of? HA!
Yes it sure does!
Cut off all federal funding for Johns Hopkins...that should restore their sanity! ;)
Johns Hopkins is now in the business of diagnosing people they have never met or had a conversation.
Quack.
And when was Trump examined by this yahoo?
On the other hand he says "Malignant Narcissists will go to great lengths to achieve their aim." Well good! I hope he accomplishes everything he said he wants to.
This.is.anti-professional and defamatory. He cannot make a diagnosis without a one-on-one relationship, and certainly ccouldn’t make it public. This quack should be censured and/or defrocked.
Yes, we can trade ethics for political expediency and exercises in narcissistic exhibitionism.
Where was he with his malignant narcissist diagnosis when Obama was in the White House?
A diagnosis of narcissism for Trump can be ruled out quite quickly. One of the classic signs of narcissism is a lack of empathy. President Trump has demonstrated time and again a very real and deep capacity for empathy. Get him started talking about our veterans, you’ll see it.
There is also a little known list of random acts of kindness and generosity performed by Trump over the years about which he doesn’t boast or even mention.
All of these behaviors are completely at odds with a diagnosis of narcissism. And frankly, no narcissist could have raised such happy, healthy, stable kids.
I’m only too familiar with narcissists and Trump is not one of them.
The shrink who wrote the article is guilty of an ethical violation. They cannot offer up a diagnosis of someone they have never evaluated.
"I didn’t set a red line; the world set a red line."
That’s why psychiatry is such a joke.
Let a cardiologist or gastro doctor or MOST doctors try and make a diagnosis from a thousand miles away.
I’ve read that now, after 100s of BILLIONS made off of SSRIs, scientists are beginning to wonder if Dopamine is actually more important than serotonin in causing depression.
Oops.
Is it defamatory of Trump if it is taken as self-parody of the psychopathic psychiatrist himself?
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