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George Conway diagnoses Trump with Narcissistic
Personality Disorder
Washington Examiner
March 18, 2019
George Conway, husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway,
suggested Monday that President Trump has narcissistic personality disorder and
antisocial personality disorder.
Conway is a lawyer, without qualifications in psychology. That did not
stop him from tweeting two pages from the American
Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders after stating that
Trump's behavior was "a product of his pathologies" and retweeting
another lawyer saying Trump was "a deranged nutcase."
The pages outlined the diagnostic criteria for narcissistic personality
disorder and antisocial personality disorder. Conway, 55, and Kellyanne Conway,
52, married in 2001 after being introduced by conservative firebrand Ann
Coulter. They have four children together.
Conway's Monday morning amateur
diagnoses came after he
said he thinks Trump’s mental state is deteriorating after a slew of Sunday tweets from the president, on subjects ranging
from the possibility of a federal investigation into “Saturday Night Live” to
what he viewed as the failings of late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
“His
condition is getting worse,” Conway, a GOP lawyer who was considered for
the job of solicitor general by the Trump administration, tweeted in response.
The criteria listed included “a grandiose sense of self-importance”; “is pre-occupied with fantasies of unlimited
success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love”; has a belief that they
are “special”; “requires excessive
admiration”; and feels entitled, among a
handful of other qualities.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Diagnostic Criteria 301.81 (F60.81)
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A
pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration,
and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of
contexts, as indicated by five or more of the following:
- Has a grandiose
sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents,
expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements;
- Is preoccupied
with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal
love;
- Believes that he
or she is “special“ and unique and can only be understood by, or should
associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions);
- Requires
excessive admiration;
- Has a sense of
entitlement (i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable
treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations;
- Is
interpersonally exploitive, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his
or her own ends;
- Lacks empathy:
is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of
others;
- Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her;
- Shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.
Antisocial personality disorder is
indicated, by a “failure to conform to
social norms with respect to lawful behaviors”; being dishonest, impulsive,
as well as “irritability and
aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults,”
among other criteria.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Diagnostic Criteria 301.7
(F60.2)
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A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of
others occurring since age 15 years, as indicated by three (or more) of the
following:
(1) Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors
as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest;
(2) Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or
conning others for personal profit or pleasure;
(3) Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead;
(4) Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical
fights or assaults;
(5) Reckless disregard for safety of self or others;
(6) Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to
sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations;
(7) Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or
rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another.
The president’s doctors have said
that he is healthy.
“I am happy to announce the
President of the United States is in very good health and I anticipate he will
remain so for the duration of his Presidency, and beyond,” White House
doctor Sean Conley said in February.
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Author: Caitlin Yilek
Washington Examiner
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