I believe that most presidential candidates probably have some level of grandiosity, but the only modern presidents that appeared to me to possibly have “full blown” narcissistic personality are Donald Trump and possibly Richard Nixon a distant second, and I’m not even remotely sure about Nixon qualifying, because he seemed to be pretty devoted to his wife. In my experience, the biggest telltale signs of this personality type are 1) rampant womanizing, though they actually hold females in contempt, 2) reaction to criticism with denial, retaliation and by feigning victimhood and blaming victims and 3) an inability to feel empathy. I gleaned the most accurate info from studying the DSM-5, AKA the “Psychology Bible”, which tends to be a slightly more trustworthy resource than a self-proclaimed Narcissist (although I find Vankin grossly fascinating and uncharacteristically insightful).
I too have read Sam Vankin’s book (several times over) and subscribe to his youtube videos. Or when he instructs the National Parks Service not to display photographs showing empty bleachers during the inaugural parade, he is making obvious his need for admiration. For example, “when Trump declares that he knows more about ISIS than the generals, he is displaying grandiosity,” one of the criteria for narcissistic personality disorder.
It describes problematic behaviors, not possible motivations. What makes it possible to diagnose Trump, says Gartner, is that the DSM, version 5 of which is in current use, puts pathology in the realm of the observable.
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Feel free to Google the rest of it to see the source). In fact, just saw this today on Facebook (I am cutting and pasting the next paragraph. I do not affiliate with any party and believe that it is entirely possible to determine whether a person suffers from NPD by mere observation of the persons behaviors and a thorough understanding of Personality Disorders. Publications > Observer > Observations > The 10 Most Narcissistic U.S. And Ford ranked 31, just above Abraham Lincoln. Jimmy Carter ranked 20, just below George Washington. Bush ranked 11, much higher than his father, George H.W. Here are the 10 presidents who ranked highest on grandiose narcissism, and the 10 who ranked lowest:įor those interested in the modern presidency, George W. In the course of doing this research, they had experts rate the first 42 American leaders on this and other personality dimensions.
They report this evidence in an article that appear in the journal Psychological Science. Emory University psychological scientist Scott Lilienfeld and his student Ashley Watts recently found evidence that a personality trait called “grandiose narcissism” predicts greatness in U.S.
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