To be clear, I want Trump to die in prison. I think his Secret Service protection should be beefed up to keep him alive so that he can enter prison. - James Pitcherella
Trump has frontotemporal dementia layered over his malignant narcissism, sociopathic sadism.
My mom died from dementia, Alzheimer’s. My dad & me visited her in a nursing home. A woman in a bed across the room quietly held a doll against her breast. The doll fell on the floor. My dad picked it up and handed it to her. She shouted, “Get your hands off me, or I’ll shoot you. I believe that woman had frontotemporal dementia.
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), also known as frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), is an umbrella term for a group of brain diseases that mainly affect the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. These areas of the brain are associated with personality, behavior and language.
In frontotemporal dementia, parts of these lobes shrink, known as atrophy. Symptoms of frontotemporal dementia depend on which part of the brain is affected. Some people with frontotemporal dementia have changes in their personalities. They may act in ways that seem socially inappropriate and may be impulsive or show less response to other people’s feelings. Others lose the ability to use or understand language.
“The term “malignant narcissism” was coined by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm in 1964. Fromm, a Holocaust survivor, suggested that malignant narcissism is a severe and destructive pathology that can lie at the heart of the inhumane acts exhibited by dictatorial tyrants such as Hitler and Stalin.
The concept of malignant narcissism was expanded by psychiatrist Otto Kernberg, who termed it a toxic combination of four highly dysfunctional traits and behaviors:
- Narcissism, with its grandiosity, lack of empathy, need for attention, and sense of entitlement.
- Antisocial behavior, with its lack of remorse, destructive and impulsive behavior, deceitfulness, and disregard for and violation of the rights of others.
- Paranoid thinking, with its sense of persecution, difficulty trusting others, preoccupation with others’ loyalty, tendency to bear grudges, and tendency to view benign actions of others as attempts at deception or exploitation.
- Sadism, with its cruelty, efforts to humiliate or manipulate others, and deriving enjoyment from others’ pain and suffering.
A day after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said she prayed for Donald Trump and the nation and wished his family and staff could stage an “intervention for the good of the country,” Congresswoman Speier told MSNBC, “The mental stability of the president of the United States is in question.”
Speier added, “There have been plenty of psychiatrists and psychologists who have observed him now for over two and a half years that have made the diagnosis from afar that he is a malignant narcissist.”
FROM:
Psychology Today
What Exactly Is “Malignant Narcissism”?
May 25, 2019
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