I’m now reading the collection of articles by psychologists and psychiatrists “A Clear and Present Danger: Narcissism in the Era of Donald Trump “ – July 26, 2016
I’ve been attending psychiatric training programs on narcissism and reading many books on the subject.
Bottom line is that the Democrats and liberals confuse good leadership qualities with narcissism.
A study published in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin suggests that when a group is without a leader, a narcissist is likely to take charge. Researchers have found that people who score high in narcissism tend to take control of leaderless groups.
Freud considered “the narcissistic type... especially suited to act as a support for others, to take on the role of leaders and to... impress others as being ‘personalities’.”: one reason may be that “another person’s narcissism has a great attraction for those who have renounced part of their own... as if we envied them for maintaining a blissful state of mind—an unassailable libidinal position which we ourselves have since abandoned.”
According to the book Narcissism: Behind the Mask, there are four basic types of leader with narcissists most commonly in type 3 although they may be in type 1:
1. authoritarian with task oriented decision making
2. democratic with task oriented decision making
3. authoritarian with emotional decision making
4. democratic with emotional decision making
Donald Trump is the most strategic individual I have ever observed. He definitely fits in group 1 and not group 3.
It has often been said that the best type of government is a benevolent dictatorship. It’s how most families are run as you can’t allow the children to make the decisions.
They keep going down this road I'm buying stock in makers of chlorpromazine. It should be making a comeback.