TRUMP CALLING ADAM SCHIFF 'DERANGED' IS A PROJECTION OF WHAT THE PRESIDENT THINKS OF HIMSELF

SAYS PSYCHIATRIST

Donald Trump's description of Chair of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff as a "deranged human being" is simply the president projecting onto others what is true about himself, a prominent psychiatrist has said.

On the sidelines of the NATO summit in the U.K., Trump said on Tuesday that Schiff's handling of the impeachment process showed that he "grew up with a complex for lots of reasons that are obvious," adding, "I think he's a very sick man, and he lies."

The former assistant clinical professor of Harvard Medical School, Lance Dodes, who first sounded the alarm about the president's mental state two years ago, said Trump could just as easily have been talking about himself.

Dodes told MSNBC: "He tells other people that they are what he is. It's a common enough mechanism in early childhood, but as an adult using it all the time, it is what we would call primitive.

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