Narcissism
Yes, I’m familiar with that, have read about it often. I just call it “self love”.
The list of SYMPTOMS stuns you when you first read them. None of my family or friends are like that so I can’t understand those who are.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder
The loss of a child is the worst loss of all, so that man’s behavior is not normal. Some people just have more love in them than others do.
Narcissism in the clinical sense is an affliction of the mind that causes the sufferer to create two distinctly different personae, one that he keeps to himself and one that he shows to the world.
There is a distinct inability to feel empathy or any honest emotion in the inner persona. Without the ability to feel the outer persona is forced to "act out" what the person thinks is the appropriate public response.
The behavior of the parent, seeming to be two different emotional responses, is classic in that the video shows both the lack of true feeling (inappropriate affect)as well as the seemingly scripted outer persona display of what the inner persona believes is correct.
Narcissism also allows the person to create a reality that is untrue and to genuinely believe that reality to be true. This leads to a lifetime practice of lying seemingly for no reason and then compounding the lie with more lies, that he genuinely believes, in support of the original lie.
You are cursed if you have one of these people in your life because you will never understand them and you can never change them. Living with one change you.