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Carolyn Quadrio's avatar

I certainly agree with you that Trump and Netanyahu pose an imminent danger to the world. Both are facing defeat and that will trigger a ferocious effort to re-establish dominance; at least one of them will then pull the nuclear trigger.

John Mills's avatar

Trump was Epsteins bunny.. who thought he was a bunny, by the looks of the footage, with the two of them.. and the way trump tries to get into his brain..and be liked, for it..🙂😉 and even Epstiens embarrassed by it, whatever trumps, said to him, and wont even, look in his face, or give him any eye contact, about... looking like, hed like him, to go away...😊

Jose Francisco Sousa Alves's avatar

Allow me to remind you of this 1964 article on the Fact magazine:"The Unconscious of a Conservative: A Special Issue on the Mind of Barry Goldwater".

The magazine was prosecuted and lost.

Niall McLaren's avatar

Haven't seen that, I'll see if I can get a copy.

Niall McLaren's avatar

Do you have a link to a copy? Seems to have been taken down.

Jose Francisco Sousa Alves's avatar

I'm not defending him. I just don't agree with your: "Socially, Trump is a nobody and he has all the prejudices and hatreds of a nobody."

He's someone. A person.

Cheers

Niall McLaren's avatar

That's metaphor, not intended literally. He casts a shadow, he is therefore some body. But socially, the upper crust abhors him and always has done.

Jose Francisco Sousa Alves's avatar

Fist off, I am critical of Trump, especially now about this war with Iran.

But I read you saying the DSM goes nowhere, I guess, even with the updating of its versions throughout the years. Nevertheless you're applying labels, as if out of the DSM, like he's a "narcissist psychopath", or a "maniac".

Thomas Szasz wouldn't agree. He called the attention for "character assassination" when using these terms, applied to politicians, for example. That's not science, he would say.

Niall McLaren's avatar

Sure but how do you say "This person's character is severely disturbed" without using some sort of standard language and without having somebody, somewhere shriek "Character assassination!" Szasz didn't have a theory of mind or of personality. To me, he's very much last century's idea of a critic. He had no effect on mainstream psychiatry itself.