We have a shameless president who transgresses rules, boundaries and people without compunction. It is this about Donald Trump—his missing shame—that is most alarming. For transgressive personalities like Trump’s, shamelessness is the …
An American President declaring war with the press who cover him, who refers to them as “the opposition party,” and “the enemy of the people,” is at war with America. There is …
Often individuals who fall for psychopaths ask, “How could I? How could I have allowed this person to have gripped me like that? Charmed me like that? Mesmerized me like that? Fooled …
As a licensed clinical social worker specializing in narcissistic personality disorder and psychopathy (aka sociopathy), I express alarm how, invoking ethical codes frowning upon the psychiatric diagnosing of public figures, the major …
The Saturday Night Live spoofs on Donald Trump, hilarious as they may be, have arguably fed a misleading narrative of Mr. Trump as a self-absorbed dunce too overwhelmed and disengaged to be …
Why the evasion of the “big elephant in the room?” President-elect Donald Trump is a chronic, pathological liar. This is no news-flash: PolitiFact reports that 96% of Mr. Trump’s political statements and …
There’s a popular view of psychopaths as always operating behind “masks” and “facades;” as somehow engaged in perpetual states of disingenuousness; as “acting” in some form or another 24/7; that there’s nothing …
An expert in the narcissistic spectrum personality disorders, all along I’ve taken the position that Donald Trump is really a classic narcissist. When people have asked me, “So…whattaya think about Trump?,” that’s …
So you’ve busted this person in your life–you’ve put “two and two” together; you’ve researched with tireless diligence the traits of narcissism, psychopathy, sociopathy, the “cluster B” personalities, and voila!–now you know …
How do we distinguish between your common jerk, abuser, and psychopath? Surely, the lines can be quite murky. If you’re a psychopath, by definition you are all three; if you’re an abusive …