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“Flawed individuals will victimize you”: A top FBI profiler’s lessons on extreme narcissists like Trump
There are 130 warning signs of the narcissistic personality. Trump checks off at least 90
Navarro’s book warns that if a “person has a preponderance of the major features of a narcissistic personality,” then he “is an emotional, psychological, financial or physical danger to you or others.” As the book “The Narcissism Epidemic” explained, “A recent psychiatric study found that the biggest consequences of narcissism — especially when other psychiatric symptoms were held constant — was suffering by people close to them.”
“Nobody seems to realize that normal rules do not apply when you are interviewing a narcissist,” this behavior expert explains to Fallows. “You can’t go about this in the way you were trained, because he is an expert at manipulating the very rules you learned.” He criticizes The New York Times for believing what Trump said when they interviewed him (which is the same point I’ve made). Finally, he warns:
“… anyone who’s dealt with a narcissist knows you never, ever believe what they say — because they will say whatever the person they are talking to wants to hear. DT is a master at phrasing things vaguely enough that multiple listeners will be able to hear exactly what they want. It isn’t word salad; it’s overt deception, which is much more pernicious.”
To leap to the conclusion, people on the far end of the narcissist spectrum lack empathy. And, Navarro told me, “these personality traits are fixed and rigid.” That person doesn’t change. They don’t pivot. Not what you would want in the leader of the world’s most powerful nation.
The cult of Donald Trump?
I came across a 2012 article from Psychology Today Navarro wrote listing “the typical traits of the pathological cult leader … you should watch for and which shout caution, get away, run or avoid if possible.” Here are just the first nine of the 50 traits he lists:
- Has a grandiose idea of who he is and what he can achieve.
- Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power or brilliance.
- Demands blind unquestioned obedience.
- Requires excessive admiration from followers and outsiders.
- Has a sense of en lement — expecting to be treated special at all times.
- Is exploitative of others by asking for their money or that of relatives, putting others at financial risk.
- Is arrogant and haughty in his behavior or at ude.
- Has an exaggerated sense of power (en lement) that allows him to bend rules and break laws.
- Takes sexual advantage of members of his sect or cult.
Navarro writes, “If these traits sound familiar to leaders, groups, sects or organizations known to you then expect those who associate with them to live in despair and to suffer even if they don’t know it, yet.”
“Is Donald Trump Actually a Narcissist? Therapists Weigh In!”:
“Textbook narcissistic personality disorder,”
echoed clinical psychologist Ben Michaelis.
“He’s so classic that I’m archiving video clips of him to use in workshops because there’s no better example of his characteristics,”
said clinical psychologist George Simon, who conducts lectures and seminars on manipulative behavior.
“Otherwise, I would have had to hire actors and write vignettes. He’s like a dream come true.”
Are such diagnoses untenable and/or meaningless? Not necessarily, says psychiatrist Dr. Sally Satel, a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Ins ute, in an article in Slate in October, “It’s OK to Speculate About Trump’s Mental Health.”
these are the nine diagnostic criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) in DSM-V (“Five are needed to be eligible for the diagnosis”):
- A grandiose logic of self-importance
- A fixation with fantasies of infinite success, control, brilliance, beauty or idyllic love
- A credence that he or she is extraordinary and exceptional and can only be understood by, or should connect with, other extraordinary or important people or ins utions
- A desire for unwarranted admiration
- A sense of en lement
- Interpersonally oppressive behavior
- No form of empathy
- Resentment of others or a conviction that others are resentful of him or her
- A display of egotistical and conceited behaviors or at udes
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/10/an-fbi-profiler-explains-trumps-narcissism_partner/
