Allen Frances in NY Times on Trump: “grandiosity, self-absorption, lack of empathy, ignorance, incompetence, impulsivity, and pursuit of dictatorial powers…
…but this doesn’t make him mentally ill, because he does not suffer from the distress and impairment required to diagnose mental disorder” (1).
How does Dr. Frances know that President Trump does not suffer from the distress required to diagnose mental disorder? Has he interviewed Trump? And is the Trump administration going so well that Dr. Frances can be sure Trump has no impairment? In any case, a debate over whether Trump is “mentally ill” is a game of semantics.
Instead, consider these more interesting questions: What can account for Trump’s puzzling inconsistencies? Why is Trump so unpredictable?
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