[FRIAM] Is the new president mentally ill?

[Merle Lefkoff]

Some of Obama's foreign policy adventures did great harm to this country.

One of the biggest problems with promoting impeachment is that
Vice-President Pence is a much smarter, more dangerous potential leader.

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 12:11 AM, Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Hi, Jochen,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Nick
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> Nicholas S. Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
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> Clark University
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> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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> *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?
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> I posted this on Google+, since we have a lot of psychologists here you
> might be interested too?
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> 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:
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> 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
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> 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
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> 3. he displays a total lack of honesty and truth-telling
> http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/
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> 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.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-serving_bias
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> 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
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> -Jochen
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Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
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