In fact, most people display some symptoms of psychopathy - superficiality, glibness, promiscuity, etc. In 2021, Fortune found that 12% of corporate senior leaders in the United States showed psychopathic traits. Between 3% and 21% of CEOs are probably psychopaths, according to a 2016 study by Bond University psychologist Nathan Brooks. Indeed, psychopaths are found in greater proportions among CEOs. Many of the traits we seek in leaders, such as fearlessness, dominant behavior, and immunity to stress, are found in psychopaths. Given that Trump displays the extreme behavioral characteristics of a pathological narcissist, a sociopath, or a malignant narcissist-take your pick-it's clear that he can't.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. "The question is whether he can possibly act as a public fiduciary for the nation's highest public trust. "Simply put, Trump's ingrained and extreme behavioral characteristics make it impossible for him to carry out the duties of the presidency in the way the Constitution requires," Conway wrote. In a recent article for The Atlantic, George Conway, an attorney and former Republican who is married to senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, detailed at length the evidence that Trump is mentally unfit to hold his office. Lee wrote in a piece for The Conversation that Trump displayed "psychological symptoms reflective of emotional compulsion, impulsivity, poor concentration, narcissism and recklessness." She also said two officials from the administration did the same. Last year, Bandy Lee, MD, a Yale psychiatrist, told Newsweek that a longtime Trump family friend approached her with concerns about the president's well-being. "Am I the only psychologist who finds this claim and this threat truly alarming? Wouldn't these normally trigger a mental health hold? Right and Left must set aside politics and agree that there is a serious problem here," Gilbert wrote on Twitter. It followed a tweet by Trump in which the president claimed he would "totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I've done before!)" if Turkey did anything that "I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits." Normal people see the consequences, assess risk, make rational decisions most of the time."Įarlier in October, Daniel Gilbert, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, suggested that Trump should be detained involuntarily to assess his mental health. "This Trumpian brain failure is hard for normal people to understand because for normal people, abstract thought is natural, baked in, largely unnoticed. "He does not process an abstract idea like American forces stabilizing a multilateral conflict with geopolitical implications. "Trump does not have a vision or a plan, because he can think only in concrete, elementary, childlike, one dimensional terms," Talmadge, who was commenting in a personal capacity, wrote. Southwestern Medical Center, wrote on Twitter that Trump's "mental impairment means he cannot think strategically or in abstract terms." Talmadge, MD, a physician and clinical professor of psychiatry at U.T. Doctor Warns of Donald Trump's 'Psychotic-Like State'.Unlike normal people, who are complex, he's basically running on a very simple and very disordered program." "Once you keep in mind that Trump lacks a conscience and lacks empathy, he becomes very easy to follow.
"But in order to explain and predict Trump's behavior, you have to begin with awareness that he is essentially a predator. "It's very hard to get this across to the public, because every time people talk about him, they start out with the unspoken unconscious assumption that he's basically like the rest of us," Dodes told Salon. "His focus on his personal benefit at any cost is why he's a successful sociopath," Dodes told Salon, adding that he can "see Donald for who he really is."
Dodes, MD, a former assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, is yet another mental health expert to call into question the president's state of mind A retired Harvard psychiatry professor described President Donald Trump as "essentially a predator" and a "successful sociopath."
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