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 …