Harvard psychiatrist Lance Dodes: Trump is a "sociopath"...

[Tennesseer]

Well explained and worth the complete read.

Harvard psychiatrist Lance Dodes: Donald Trump is a "sociopath" and "a very sick individual"
Harvard professor and psychoanalyst on the "antiquated" Goldwater rule and our president's "serious mental illness"

The president of the United States is a global celebrity whose every action is endlessly commented upon and dissected for meaning by the news media, foreign powers (both friends and foes alike) and the public.

In the age of television and now the internet, there are hundreds of thousands of hours of video and audio footage of every president widely available. There are also rumors and leaks from within the White House and other branches of government that can help paint a picture of a given president's moods, desires, thoughts and other behavior. What is to be done if this evidence collectively suggests that the president of the United States is mentally ill?

Unfortunately, with Donald Trump this is not the stuff of a political thriller. It is painfully plausible and all too real. The evidence suggesting that Donald Trump may have serious mental health problems is overwhelming.

He is a compulsive liar who creates his own fantasy world. Trump is also extremely moody and impulsive. Trump's advisers have to satisfy his extreme narcissism and nurture his detachment from reality by presenting him -- on a twice-daily basis -- with a file folder full of "good news." Fellow Republicans have been recorded on a hot mike suggesting that Trump may be "crazy." The American news media, as well as commentators from other countries, have voiced serious concerns about Trump's mental health and the threat it poses to global security.

Entire article here: Harvard psychiatrist Lance Dodes: Donald Trump is a "sociopath" and "a very sick individual"

[weltschmerz]

Of course he's a dangerous sociopath. Remember when that 80 old man fell  off the stage at Mar A Lago and hit his head on the floor, bleeding profusely?  Trump was more concerned about the floor.


Donald Trump Shared a Hilarious Story About Not Wanting to Help a Dying Man

"He was right in front of me, and I turned away. I didn’t want to touch him."

"He’s bleeding all over the place, I felt terrible. You know, beautiful marble floor, didn’t look like it. It changed color. Became very red."

www.gq.com/story/donald-trump-howard-stern-story

[kadee79]

He has never had the entire human gnome....he's lacking several things, like compassion. 

[busymom]

Whatever his problem is, it's obvious he's not "right" in the head.



Of course, I remember joking way back when Reagan was in office, especially towards the end of his presidency, that I thought he had Alzheimer's.  He wasn't publicly diagnosed with it for years later, but I wasn't surprised when it came out on the news. 

[OldCoyote]

Wern't you ever concerned about Obama's studdering,, Seriously that man had real issues!

[dondub]

Lance needs to see you OC.

And what is studdering?

[Tennesseer]

Jul 20, 2019 22:02:09 GMT -5 OldCoyote said:

Wern't you ever concerned about Obama's studdering,, Seriously that man had real issues!

You write like trump speaks: 'stuttering'.

[OldCoyote]

Jul 20, 2019 22:51:55 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Jul 20, 2019 22:02:09 GMT -5 OldCoyote said:

Wern't you ever concerned about Obama's studdering,, Seriously that man had real issues!

You write like trump speaks: 'stuttering'.

Thank you Tenn.

[dondub]

10:30 next Wednesday. FaceTime.

[weltschmerz]

Jul 20, 2019 22:02:09 GMT -5 OldCoyote said:

Wern't you ever concerned about Obama's studdering,, Seriously that man had real issues!

Obama didn't studder [sic].

He has what is called an intellectual stammer.
And even if he did stutter, so what? Why would that concern me? You have something against disabilities, like your hero, Trump?

[dezii]

Jul 20, 2019 22:02:09 GMT -5 OldCoyote said:

Wern't you ever concerned about Obama's studdering,, Seriously that man had real issues!

Your really reaching for it....even more desperate then one can imagine...after all your posts the reaction is    followed by  ......................................

[OldCoyote]

Jul 20, 2019 23:48:57 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

Jul 20, 2019 22:02:09 GMT -5 OldCoyote said:

Wern't you ever concerned about Obama's studdering,, Seriously that man had real issues!

Obama didn't studder [sic].

He has what is called an intellectual stammer.
And even if he did stutter, so what? Why would that concern me? You have something against disabilities, like your hero, Trump?

OH BOY!!!!

[Tennesseer]

Jul 21, 2019 9:19:12 GMT -5 OldCoyote said:

Jul 20, 2019 23:48:57 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

Obama didn't studder [sic].

He has what is called an intellectual stammer.
And even if he did stutter, so what? Why would that concern me? You have something against disabilities, like your hero, Trump?

OH BOY!!!!

you spelled 'boy' correctly.

[mmhmm]

Jul 21, 2019 9:54:03 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Jul 21, 2019 9:19:12 GMT -5 OldCoyote said:

OH BOY!!!!

you spelled 'boy' correctly.

Yeah, he did - but, he omitted the comma. 

(Just kiddin' ya, OC)

[steff]

A stutter has nothing to do with intelligence.   I have a brother that has had a stutter his entire life.  He's in no way less intelligent than anyone else because of it.  

[happyhoix]

We're comparing a POTUS who continually lies to one who sometimes stuttered?

Oh, the horror of sometimes tripping over your words. Unless you're Bush Jr, who did that kind of thing all the time, and the GOPers never batted an eye.

[tallguy]

Jul 21, 2019 11:40:58 GMT -5 steff said:

A stutter has nothing to do with intelligence.   I have a brother that has had a stutter his entire life.  He's in no way less intelligent than anyone else because of it.  

There are studies that show that people who stutter are generally smarter than the average person.  A quick search will find articles where the difference in IQ is variously reported as 14, 22, and 15-29 points higher for stutterers.  Not definitive, but....

[weltschmerz]

Jul 21, 2019 9:19:12 GMT -5 OldCoyote said:

Jul 20, 2019 23:48:57 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

Obama didn't studder [sic].

He has what is called an intellectual stammer.
And even if he did stutter, so what? Why would that concern me? You have something against disabilities, like your hero, Trump?

OH BOY!!!!

That's all you got? Just a rote "OH BOY!!!", which means nothing?

[tallguy]

Donald Trump is a "sociopath" and "a very sick individual"

Has that ever really been in question?  

[steff]

Jul 21, 2019 13:29:32 GMT -5 tallguy said:

Jul 21, 2019 11:40:58 GMT -5 steff said:

A stutter has nothing to do with intelligence.   I have a brother that has had a stutter his entire life.  He's in no way less intelligent than anyone else because of it.  

There are studies that show that people who stutter are generally smarter than the average person.  A quick search will find articles where the difference in IQ is variously reported as 14, 22, and 15-29 points higher for stutterers.  Not definitive, but....

Doesn't surprise me.  We know that my brother's stutter is tied to emotional abuse as a child.  From his age 1-6 were the worst years in our childhood.  He stuttered from his first word.  As an adult, it comes out on certain words/phrases all the time, but it will be overwhelming when he's upset or stressed.  He has never been able to say my full name.  never.   It's why I'm just steff or sissy to him. 

He's owned his own business & still works in the tech industry.   His stutter hasn't held him back and has absolutely NOTHING to do with his intelligence.  

Those that think it does & make fun of people who stutter are fucking turds & bullies. 

[dezii]

I really don't know if the Donald is a true racist...true raciest in history would be Hitler, Goring, the death camp commandants..Eichman and such and in our country those Dixie crats of the 50's , Strom Thurman and other segregationist politicians and those garden types who out themselves within a five minute conversation, if five minutes are needed, Father Coughlin of the 30's...members of the American German Bund.

As a billionaire who owned his own businesses basically out right, I believe he found , by his wealth and position, he was easily able to speak his mind with no objections as he surrounded himself with yes men and woman...like his now jailed attorney...there to have a living  by being his toadies...

He was a success there and is continuing his same way of acting now as POTUS with our country and also with other nations...giving all his allegiance to his base which contains many, not all, but a preponderance of folks who can be called raciest. He plays to them and feels since he won doing the same in 2016...he feels by doubling down, and realizes it's not majority vote that makes u a winner in our Presidential but the electoral...thats what he is counting on.

[weltschmerz]

Jul 21, 2019 9:19:12 GMT -5 OldCoyote said:

Jul 20, 2019 23:48:57 GMT -5 weltschmerz said:

Obama didn't studder [sic].

He has what is called an intellectual stammer.
And even if he did stutter, so what? Why would that concern me? You have something against disabilities, like your hero, Trump?

OH BOY!!!!

An intellectual stammer is something you'll NEVER have to worry about.

[Great]

The article in the OP is an opinion, unethical, and unofficial speculation reading more like a political attack.
I find it shocking that a psychiatrist, Lance Dodes, would publicly discuss the mental health of a patient and a public figure clearly violating the Goldwater Rule. 

The Goldwater Rule
The Goldwater rule is the informal name given to section 7 in the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) Principles of Medical Ethics,[1] which states that it is unethical for psychiatrists to give a professional opinion about public figures whom they have not examined in person, and from whom they have not obtained consent to discuss their mental health in public statements.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwater_rule

[Tennesseer]

Jul 21, 2019 16:28:46 GMT -5 Great said:

The article in the OP is an opinion, unethical, and unofficial speculation reading more like a political attack.
I find it shocking that a psychiatrist, Lance Dodes, would publicly discuss the mental health of a patient and a public figure clearly violating the Goldwater Rule. 

The Goldwater Rule
The Goldwater rule is the informal name given to section 7 in the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) Principles of Medical Ethics,[1] which states that it is unethical for psychiatrists to give a professional opinion about public figures whom they have not examined in person, and from whom they have not obtained consent to discuss their mental health in public statements.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwater_rule

Dodes addressed this Goldwater Rule. And I agree with him as it pertains to trump.

trump's behavior and mental state is available for all to see and hear. his thoughts in Tweets are available for all to read. It's like observing a mentally deranged patient through a one-way mirror and listening to his rants and raving. Easy diagnosis.

[weltschmerz]

A deaf, dumb and blind person can tell that Trump's elevator doesn't reach the top floor.

[weltschmerz]

This is a man who puts his extreme narcissism out there for the whole world to see.

He knows more about taxes than anyone in the history of the world!
He knows more about the military than the generals!
He knows more about drones than anyone who has ever lived!
He has the highest IQ!
He knows more about nuclear energy than physicists!
He knows more about Finnish forests than Finns!
He knows more about fighting fires than firefighters!
He knows more about climate change than climatologists!
He knows more about Cory Booker than Cory Booker knows himself!
He knows more about infrastructure than anybody!
He knows more about technology than anybody!

This is a man who can barely READ!

[Great]

Jul 21, 2019 16:44:18 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Jul 21, 2019 16:28:46 GMT -5 Great said:

The article in the OP is an opinion, unethical, and unofficial speculation reading more like a political attack.
I find it shocking that a psychiatrist, Lance Dodes, would publicly discuss the mental health of a patient and a public figure clearly violating the Goldwater Rule. 

The Goldwater Rule
The Goldwater rule is the informal name given to section 7 in the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) Principles of Medical Ethics,[1] which states that it is unethical for psychiatrists to give a professional opinion about public figures whom they have not examined in person, and from whom they have not obtained consent to discuss their mental health in public statements.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwater_rule

Dodes addressed this Goldwater Rule. And I agree with him as it pertains to trump.

trump's behavior and mental state is available for all to see and hear. his thoughts in Tweets are available for all to read. It's like observing a mentally deranged patient through a one-way mirror and listening to his rants and raving. Easy diagnosis.

Many politicians have qualities in common with sociopaths.  Articles like this one about Trump are in abundance on the internet about other politicians through history.
The common denominator is that not one of the authors actually examined the politician in person as a patient.

Here is a great article.... 

“Masters of Manipulation”: Psychopaths Rule The World
A Case Study of Obama and Petraeus

When renowned Harvard clinical psychologist and author of The Sociopath Next Door Dr. Martha Stout (who uses sociopath and psychopath interchangeably) was asked if politicians are more likely to be psychopaths, she answered:

“Yes, politicians are more likely than people in the general population to be sociopaths. I think you would find no expert in the field of sociopathy/ psychopathy/antisocial personality disorder who would dispute this… That a small minority of human beings literally have no conscience was and is a bitter pill for our society to swallow – but it does explain a great many things, shamelessly deceitful political behavior being one.”
Even a cursory examination of the most powerful leaders who reach the very top in America – President Barrack Obama and the most famous living US general ex-CIA Director David Patraeus – both illustrate as psychopathic poster boys what has gone most wrong in America. The psychopathic traits and tendencies of their actions, misdeeds and public records will be examined next.

Barrack Hussein Obama is a Machiavellian pathological liar of the first order. His mounting pile of shattered and broken promises to the American people used during his meteoric rise to power from relative obscurity as a largely unknown junior senator from Illinois a dozen years ago to becoming the most powerful leader (albeit as elected figurehead front man to the true power of the oligarchy that owns him) in the most powerful nation on earth is the stuff of urban psychopathic legends. We all remember the man who captured the hopeful, yearning hearts of so many Americans who were so exhausted and demoralized by the psychopaths Bush and Cheney and their brutal evil psychopathic agenda. Obama campaigning on his mantra of hope appeared on the national scene like a desperately needed breath of fresh air. The first African American president rode in on his white horse wave of hope that weary America had finally found its first populist champion of the people since FDR and Lincoln’s four score and seven years ago days.

more here... www.globalresearch.ca/masters-of-manipulation-psychopaths-rule-the-world/5383706

[Tennesseer]

Jul 21, 2019 17:25:10 GMT -5 Great said:

Jul 21, 2019 16:44:18 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Dodes addressed this Goldwater Rule. And I agree with him as it pertains to trump.

trump's behavior and mental state is available for all to see and hear. his thoughts in Tweets are available for all to read. It's like observing a mentally deranged patient through a one-way mirror and listening to his rants and raving. Easy diagnosis.

Many politicians have qualities in common with sociopaths.  Articles like this one about Trump are in abundance on the internet about other politicians through history.
The common denominator is that not one of the authors actually examined the politician in person as a patient.

Here is a great article.... 

“Masters of Manipulation”: Psychopaths Rule The World
A Case Study of Obama and Petraeus

When renowned Harvard clinical psychologist and author of The Sociopath Next Door Dr. Martha Stout (who uses sociopath and psychopath interchangeably) was asked if politicians are more likely to be psychopaths, she answered:

“Yes, politicians are more likely than people in the general population to be sociopaths. I think you would find no expert in the field of sociopathy/ psychopathy/antisocial personality disorder who would dispute this… That a small minority of human beings literally have no conscience was and is a bitter pill for our society to swallow – but it does explain a great many things, shamelessly deceitful political behavior being one.”
Even a cursory examination of the most powerful leaders who reach the very top in America – President Barrack Obama and the most famous living US general ex-CIA Director David Patraeus – both illustrate as psychopathic poster boys what has gone most wrong in America. The psychopathic traits and tendencies of their actions, misdeeds and public records will be examined next.

Barrack Hussein Obama is a Machiavellian pathological liar of the first order. His mounting pile of shattered and broken promises to the American people used during his meteoric rise to power from relative obscurity as a largely unknown junior senator from Illinois a dozen years ago to becoming the most powerful leader (albeit as elected figurehead front man to the true power of the oligarchy that owns him) in the most powerful nation on earth is the stuff of urban psychopathic legends. We all remember the man who captured the hopeful, yearning hearts of so many Americans who were so exhausted and demoralized by the psychopaths Bush and Cheney and their brutal evil psychopathic agenda. Obama campaigning on his mantra of hope appeared on the national scene like a desperately needed breath of fresh air. The first African American president rode in on his white horse wave of hope that weary America had finally found its first populist champion of the people since FDR and Lincoln’s four score and seven years ago days.

more here... www.globalresearch.ca/masters-of-manipulation-psychopaths-rule-the-world/5383706

No politician has ever behaved like trump. No one. he stands alone at the top of the heap.

[Great]

No politician has ever behaved like trump. No one. he stands alone at the top of the heap.

Tennesseer

This is where we differ in opinions.

I believe it will be Pres. Obama that will go down as the worst and most damaging USA president in history. 

[Tennesseer]

Jul 21, 2019 17:25:10 GMT -5 Great said:

Jul 21, 2019 16:44:18 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Dodes addressed this Goldwater Rule. And I agree with him as it pertains to trump.

trump's behavior and mental state is available for all to see and hear. his thoughts in Tweets are available for all to read. It's like observing a mentally deranged patient through a one-way mirror and listening to his rants and raving. Easy diagnosis.

Many politicians have qualities in common with sociopaths.  Articles like this one about Trump are in abundance on the internet about other politicians through history.
The common denominator is that not one of the authors actually examined the politician in person as a patient.

Here is a great article.... 

“Masters of Manipulation”: Psychopaths Rule The World
A Case Study of Obama and Petraeus

When renowned Harvard clinical psychologist and author of The Sociopath Next Door Dr. Martha Stout (who uses sociopath and psychopath interchangeably) was asked if politicians are more likely to be psychopaths, she answered:

“Yes, politicians are more likely than people in the general population to be sociopaths. I think you would find no expert in the field of sociopathy/ psychopathy/antisocial personality disorder who would dispute this… That a small minority of human beings literally have no conscience was and is a bitter pill for our society to swallow – but it does explain a great many things, shamelessly deceitful political behavior being one.”
Even a cursory examination of the most powerful leaders who reach the very top in America – President Barrack Obama and the most famous living US general ex-CIA Director David Patraeus – both illustrate as psychopathic poster boys what has gone most wrong in America. The psychopathic traits and tendencies of their actions, misdeeds and public records will be examined next.

Barrack Hussein Obama is a Machiavellian pathological liar of the first order. His mounting pile of shattered and broken promises to the American people used during his meteoric rise to power from relative obscurity as a largely unknown junior senator from Illinois a dozen years ago to becoming the most powerful leader (albeit as elected figurehead front man to the true power of the oligarchy that owns him) in the most powerful nation on earth is the stuff of urban psychopathic legends. We all remember the man who captured the hopeful, yearning hearts of so many Americans who were so exhausted and demoralized by the psychopaths Bush and Cheney and their brutal evil psychopathic agenda. Obama campaigning on his mantra of hope appeared on the national scene like a desperately needed breath of fresh air. The first African American president rode in on his white horse wave of hope that weary America had finally found its first populist champion of the people since FDR and Lincoln’s four score and seven years ago days.

more here... www.globalresearch.ca/masters-of-manipulation-psychopaths-rule-the-world/5383706

The author of your linked article:

“”We've seen it with the treasonous US crime cabal government that engineered the murder of 3000 Americans on 9/11 to establish a fake war on terror with fake enemies acting as mercenary Islamic stooges that conveniently facilitated the dismantling of the US Constitution.

—Joachim Hagopian promoting 9/11 conspiracy theories on Globalresearch.


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