New York Times columnist, in Don Quixote allusion, says President Trump is “madman…tilting at windmills”: So what was Don Quixote’s diagnosis?
As I’ve previously discussed (search “madness”), the words “madness” and “madman” do not refer to any specific condition.
However, the columnist’s literary allusion to Cervantes’ Don Quixote may be insightful, since, as I have also discussed in past posts (search “Don Quixote”), Don Quixote does have a diagnosis.
The character’s original name was Alonso Quixano. He changed his name to Don Quixote and tilted at windmills. But in the end, he changed his name back to Alonso Quixano and no longer had those quixotic ideas.
The only psychiatric condition that features such name and attitudinal changes is multiple personality, which, therefore, is the character’s diagnosis.
What is President Trump’s diagnosis, if any? Having never interviewed him, I don’t know. But for my past speculations, search “Trump.”
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