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Ilsa

(61,698 posts)
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 04:53 PM Aug 2017

Couch psychologists and Twitter users, here is a long, interesting thread about Trump's psyche, from

someone well-versed in psychoanalytical conceptual thinking:




There are many comments under different ideas that are explored, including application of Melanie Klein's ideas about splitting, good-breast, bad-breast, and paranoid schizoid. They talked about the symptoms.

Its a tweet thread from June.
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Couch psychologists and Twitter users, here is a long, interesting thread about Trump's psyche, from (Original Post) Ilsa Aug 2017 OP
add his fear of abandonment..... samnsara Aug 2017 #1
Infantile terror. elleng Aug 2017 #2
Yes, it appears to come from an extremely early age. Ilsa Aug 2017 #3
Right, the 'blood thing' is apparently a thing. elleng Aug 2017 #4
Freaky! Cracklin Charlie Aug 2017 #5
Yes, and trump keeps insisting his little monument is Ilsa Aug 2017 #6
Was he bdamomma Aug 2017 #7
I'm just curious, why do we never hear anything from any of his other smirkymonkey Aug 2017 #8

samnsara

(17,635 posts)
1. add his fear of abandonment.....
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 04:56 PM
Aug 2017

...as when he was shipped off to military school and the CEOs leaving his team. He abandons those he fears are on their way to abandoning him. Such a sad lonely orange old man...

Ilsa

(61,698 posts)
3. Yes, it appears to come from an extremely early age.
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 05:19 PM
Aug 2017

My son's psychiatrist had told me that any decent psychiatrist would have trump diagnosed as a narcissist within 20 minutes of meeting him. No testing needed, it was so obvious.

But I think there are other relevant diagnosis that have to do with his strange comments, sometimes saying there are things present with are not ("Blood in her eyes, blood in here wherever.&quot

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
5. Freaky!
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 08:49 PM
Aug 2017

Just saw Joy do Trump's "River of Blood" monument on one of his properties, as Thing 2 on "All In".

Glad I read the tweet thread?

Ilsa

(61,698 posts)
6. Yes, and trump keeps insisting his little monument is
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 10:12 PM
Aug 2017

Historically accurate, despitewhat historians say. It's interesting that he pursued building a monument about "blood".

I think he has extreme mommy issues. Several tweeters suggested he could be pushed to the point of falling apart if enough people asked the right questions about him and mommy Mary.

bdamomma

(63,922 posts)
7. Was he
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 10:22 PM
Aug 2017

a Momma's boy? One brother died of alcoholism. What kind of relationship did he have with his father? Well his father wasn't an upstanding he had opened a cat house when he arrived in the US and a member of the KKK.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
8. I'm just curious, why do we never hear anything from any of his other
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 11:01 PM
Aug 2017

siblings? Do they like him? Do they want anything to do with him? Has anyone read a biography where they know what the relationships are like? It doesn't seem like any of them are very close to him.

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