[FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

[Jochen Fromm]

Yes, certainly, the Washington Post says his father sent him there because he showed signs of mischievous behavior or misbehavior. Yet the 13 year old Donald must have felt totally lonely and abandoned when he arrived in NYMA, as if someone pulled out the rug under him. His inflated, grandiose sense of self could be a compensation for deep feelings of shame and abandonment. I wouldn't be surprised if you meet an insecure 13 year old boy at the core of his personality, a child longing for the love of the parents who abandoned him.https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/lifestyle/style/young-donald-trump-military-school/2016/06/22/f0b3b164-317c-11e6-8758-d58e76e11b12_story.html
-J.

-------- Original message --------From: Joe Spinden <js at QRi.us> Date: 1/17/17  22:49  (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders 

    If you want to psychoanalyze Trump, you might start before he was
      sent to the NYMA.  I.e., WHY did his father send him there ?
    -J

    
    

    On 1/17/17 2:43 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:

    
    
      
      In 2011 there was a press conference where president Obama
        roasted Trump and mocked about his competence. Trump was sitting
        in the audience and didn't laugh. For a person with a
        narcissistic personality disorder this must have been a
        traumatic experience. Maybe this was the moment where he decided
        to take revenge no matter at what cost? It starts at 2:40
      https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=ohfN1_cjm5I
      

      
      I think if we really want to understand him we have to go
        back a little bit more. When Trump was 13, his father sent him
        to the NYMA (New York Military Academy). It is a rigid school
        which values discipline. He must have been very unhappy to be
        the only of 5 siblings to be there, to move from a rich house in
        Queens, NY, to this impersonal and strict institution.
      http://www.businessinsider.de/donald-trump-attended-new-york-military-academy-2016-12?op=1

        

        I guess his personality must have been deformed by this
        humiliating experience. Was this the moment when he decided to
        be selfish and egoistic because his parents didn't care about
        him? At the core of his personality you can probably still meet
        the lonely and insecure 13 year old that wants to be loved.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/decades-later-disagreement-over-young-trumps-military-academy-post/2016/01/09/907a67b2-b3e0-11e5-a842-0feb51d1d124_story.html
      

      
      They say narcissism can develop if a child gets too much or
        too little attention. The young Donald apparently got too little
        love from his parents, and he learned that he can be loved if he
        wins, pretends, or pretends to win. Lies obviously have been
        helpful to get what he wants, and from 13 to 18 no parents were
        there for him to guide him. Is this how a personality order can
        develop, too little love in childhood?
      

      
      -J.
      

      
      
        

        
      
      

      
      

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