Psychopathy in the White House
Early in the movie Jaws, the beach town of Amity is being threatened by a killer shark. The 4th of July is approaching …
Uncle Sociopath? Uncle Psychopath? Mary Trump Goes Public
Sociopath, Psychopath, Antisocial Personality Disorder - What’s the Difference and Why Does This Matter? As talking heads appeared on television in response to the issues raised by Mary L. Trump’s book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man …
Are Sociopaths and Psychopaths Interchangeable? Tony Soprano Meets Donald Trump
The unrecognized controversy between these dueling diagnostic constructs contributed to a widely experienced confusion on the part of lay people and psychological professionals alike. And had led both to use “psychopath” and “sociopath” interchangeably …
The Destructivity of Psychopaths
Hervey M. Cleckley, the seminal modern authority on psychopaths, ended his thumbnail depiction of them by evoking their internal chaos “that results in purposeful destructive behavior, often more self-destructive than destructive to others.”
Narcissism: The Untreated Child of Modern Psychology’s Spiritual Divorce (Part 2 of 2)
The early psychoanalysts—going back to Freud’s 1927 work The Future of an Illusion— had considered anything spiritual or religious as fundamentally illusory, …
Narcissism: Taking a History (Part 1 of 2)
At the beginning of healing processes, healers common do what’s called “taking a history.” Aristotle found that narcissism’s hubris was perpetuated by those lacking a knowledge of history. Thus, we might do well to take a history of narcissism itself. While gaining some view of how earlier cultural epochs have viewed, and attempted to address it...