Posted on 11/09/2014 2:04:37 PM PST by Patton@Bastogne
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2014-11-09
Is Obama Presidentially-Incapacitated by Narcissistic Rage?
For those perplexed by Barack Obama's often inexplicable behavior, wonder no more.
An individual with narcissistic personality disorder exhibits extreme self-importance, has a constant need for attention and admiration, is secretive and controlling, cannot empathize with others, and has a heightened sensitivity to criticism. To get the attention he craves, a narcissist may try to create crises or diversions that return the focus to him. The narcissist feels entitled, that the world owes him, regardless of whether he makes a contribution.
Narcissists are selfish and self-centered people, who are capable only of thinking about their own issues regarding power, prestige, and personal adequacy. They cannot understand the problems of people around them, and are not aware of other peoples' feelings. Although they act superior and confident, this actually hides the fact that they have very fragile egos. They live with the illusion that they are perfectionists and that people revere them. The slightest disrespect or challenge can quickly lead to the development of "Narcissistic Rage," a term coined by Heinz Kohut in his 1972 book "The Analysis of the Self." The fuming rage the narcissist exhibits is different from the anger that people usually feel; it is either irrational or severely blown out of proportion from an insignificant remark or action. According to Kohut, this rage impairs a narcissist's cognition, therefore impairing his judgment.
A narcissist needs to sustain the illusion of being bigger, larger, smarter and more successful than everyone else in order to feel stable. Narcissists need constant admiration, attention and compliments, not to increase their self-esteem, but to prevent a feeling of instability that could lead to dysfunction or breakdown. Narcissistic rage occurs when that core instability is heightened. In essence, the reason narcissists are so self-centered is that their grandiosity-based personality needs to be constantly reinforced to remain stable.
In the present context, narcissistic rage can take two forms:
I. Explosive - The narcissist attacks everyone in his immediate vicinity and is verbally and psychologically abusive.
II. Pernicious or Passive-Aggressive - The narcissist sulks, gives the silent treatment or is vindictive, plotting how to put the transgressors in their proper place. They can sabotage the work of people whom they regard to be the sources of their mounting wrath.
As described by Ernest Istook, Obama's behavior matches the American Psychiatric Association's definition of passive-aggressive behavior, "a habitual pattern of passive resistance to expected work requirements, opposition, stubbornness, and negativistic attitudes in response to requirements for normal performance levels expected of others." Often, such persons see themselves as blameless victims, projecting fault onto others. Commonly, they follow erratic paths and cause constant conflicts.
Obama is cautious and dithers even on perilous issues like confronting the ISIS threat, not as a result of campaign promises, but because to make any decision risks the reassuring adulation of his political base and a fawning media.
And nothing the narcissist says is ever what he means. Language is simply used as a tool for deception, and manipulation. Everything they do is for show, or only meant in the moment. That's why everything around them seems so chaotic and confusing.
Obama's vindictive and illegal use of the IRS results from his perception that critics are enemies, seeing Republicans as a greater threat to him personally than terrorists. When you are a narcissist, the world looks like it should approve, adore, agree and obey you. Anything less than that seems like an assault and a narcissist feels justified in raging back at it.
No one should expect a significant change in Obama's behavior because narcissists demonstrate an enduring pattern of inflexibility that is pervasive across a broad range of personal and social situations.
Nevertheless, even narcissists eventually have to be held accountable for their actions.
Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D. is a retired colonel with 29 years of service in the US Army Reserve and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. Colonel Sellin is the author of "Restoring the Republic: Arguments for a Second American Revolution ". He receives email at lawrence.sellin@gmail.com.
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What kind of idiots would vote twice
for this? Oops.
The time has come.
Obama ignores his conscience therefore he can do whatever he likes and the fact that he is president of the United States makes him a powerful man with no conscience.
The problem is that when we have no idea that we are dealing with a psychopath, we always just wonder after him meanwhile the perpetrator skates.
What do we do?
We resist him to his face.
Congress should do likewise.
This is why I believe Obama will ignore Congress & continue implementing his radical Marxist, reparations driven agenda.
Only impeachment will stop him, yet Congress is too afraid to impeach the first black President.
This man will reek such havoc on our country that it will take generations to repair, if ever.
why would impeachment stop him?
To everyone. Obama is worse than a simple narcissist. He is a neo-marxist hell bent on destroying this country and the people in it. It is a disease of the soul indeed
We tried to warn y'all in 2012, unfortunately, those of us who tried to tell you the sheer evil this administration would do will suffer every bit as much as you do.
too bad there isn’t a real opposition party in this country
No willingness to admit they were wrong, no capacity to do so.
Telling.
But Obola’s slavish ABCNNBCBS press corpse ignored it. As usual.
The Republican establishment is the one to blame.
The democrats will get rid of him if it becomes apparent that he is distroying the party like the Republicans forced Nixon to resign.
I'm no fan of the R establishment, but for you not to know the difference between the sheer evil of this Marxist America hater and the stupidity of RINO's is incomprehensible.
YOU left him in office, YOU let him stay there to ruin stuff, it's YOUR fault.
The president needs to go to CODA.
I believe his passive aggressive narcissism led him to abandon our Marine in Mexico. American public wanted the president to help the Marine, so he left him there as a big F you to us. Total power trip.
I left him in office? lolz
The Rats of today are NOT the same as the Pubs of 1972, nor even the Rats of that time.
They have repeatedly defended the indefensible lies & criminality of Obama. See Fast & Furious, Benghazi, the IRS scandal, & the unilateral changing of the Obamacare law. There are no honorable people left in the Rat party. Their ends justify the means for them in all cases. They are irrational on foreign policy, the economy, perceived racism, the climate, & a host of other issues.
The Rats will defend Obama even as Russia swallows Europe, ISIS swallows the Middle East, & the dollar trades evenly with a Zimbabwe dollar. This is what they have done in the recent past. I fully expect them to continue this course.
History is full of stories of nations & peoples being entirely WRONG. They went the wrong direction & could not, would not accept that even to their disasterous end.
In the same way, Rats & Liberals in general, though they have noble goals, they are going in the wrong direction; they will never get there, & they will not accept that they are headed the wrong way. They will walk neck deep into quicksand & still insist they are on solid ground.
The worst part is that their huge voter base, approaching a majority of Americans, would knowingly follow them into Hell, calling it more evidence of global warming.
Like a Madman,,,
Resist
Obama’s
Tyranny!
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