[FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

[glen ☣]

I found this opinion refreshing:

Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the President-Elect

http://behaviorismandmentalhealth.com/2017/01/16/narcissistic-personality-disorder-and-the-president-elect/

I particularly liked the (strawman) circularity caricatured by conflating phenomenology with ontology:

> Wife: Why is my husband so self-important; why does he have such a sense of entitlement?
> Psychiatrist: Because he has an illness called narcissistic personality disorder.
> Wife: How do you know he has this illness?
> Psychiatrist: Because he is so self-important and has such a sense of entitlement.

But, personally, seeing [gag] Trump as the epitome of everything that's wrong with our culture, I can sympathize with the idea of using whatever tool we might have available to _demonstrate_ to others how thoroughly unable the man is to fill the role of President.  But we should be careful not to abandon our own principles in the process.

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☣ glen