[FRIAM] Is the new president mentally ill?

[Grant Holland]

Jochen, Nick,

I have the same concerns. Thx for speaking up.

Grant


On 1/11/17 12:11 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
>
> Hi, Jochen,
>
> I tried a couple of weeks ago to get everybody worried about this and 
> nobody bit.  Briefly, in the first few months Trump discovers that he 
> cannot do anything domestically because … alas …. of the 
> constitution.  He then promotes riots in the streets followed by the 
> “reluctant” imposition of martial law.  Or, he turns to foreign policy 
> and gets into a lovers spat with Putin and reaches for the football.
>
> The only comfort I have is that I knew people in 2008 and 2012 who 
> were as afraid of Obama as I am of Trump, and nothing bad happened.  
> Well, nothing bad happened because of Obama.
>
> The problem may be that it’s SO scary that we don’t know where to 
> start.  There are demonstrations planned all over the country, locally 
> this week, and in Washington after the Inauguration.  While these may 
> prevent Trump from doing anything legislatively,  it surely does 
> address the existential crisis that lurks beyond these early 
> frustrations.
>
> According to the Constitution, the present may be declared incompetent 
> by a majority of his senior administration … Cabinet, mostly I think.  
> But notice that he has stacked the cabinet with people who are, if 
> anything, loonier than he is, so I very much doubt that any of them 
> would vote to remove him. Maddis, perhaps, but that’s about it.
>
> Impeachment is a very real possibility, but it takes a lot of time, 
> and a crazy President has enormous power to make the country pay for 
> trying.
>
> I have a few pro-Trumpers who reassure me that no rational man would 
> take the kinds of risks that I fear, that like all bullies he will 
> back down when he sees that his tantrums aren’t getting anywhere.  But 
> what if he’s not a rational man?  What then?
>
> Nick
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
>
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>
> Clark University
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ 
> <http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/>
>
> *From:*Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Jochen 
> Fromm
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 10, 2017 11:55 PM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group 
> <friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* [FRIAM] Is the new president mentally ill?
>
> I posted this on Google+, since we have a lot of psychologists here 
> you might be interested too?
>
> Psychologists, therapists and mental health professionals seem to be 
> fascinated and terrified alike by the new president who has not only 
> become a brand, but is nothing but a brand:
>
> 1. he seems to be a textbook case of a narcissistic personality disorder
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-greene/is-donald-trump-mentally_b_13693174.html
>
> 2. he was elected although he imitates the behavior of an massive 
> Internet troll
> https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-embodied-mind/201701/unified-theory-trump
>
> 3. he displays a total lack of honesty and truth-telling
> http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/
>
> All DSM-5 criteria of a narcissistic personality disorder seem to be 
> fulfilled. Should we be worried? What do you think? He shows a clear 
> need for instant retaliation if someone criticizes him, which is 
> obviously some form a narcissistic rage. It is clearly more than a 
> self-serving bias, and such a deep personality disorder is not 
> harmless at all.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-serving_bias
>
> The problem is he is in a position where he can pull the strings now, 
> as the commander in chief of the most powerful army. The US has about 
> 2000 nuclear weapons on high alert, and there is a soldier with the 
> nuclear football following the president at all times. What could go 
> wrong?
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_football
>
> -Jochen
>
>
>
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