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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCouch psychologists and Twitter users, here is a long, interesting thread about Trump's psyche, from
someone well-versed in psychoanalytical conceptual thinking:
Link to tweet
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.
samnsara
(17,635 posts)...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...
elleng
(131,107 posts)Ilsa
(61,698 posts)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."
elleng
(131,107 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)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)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.
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)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.