Conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage highlights observations about President Barack Obama’s narcissism which first appeared in a blog post one year ago by Sam Vaknin, PhD. Below are excerpts from the piece Savage cites:
Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist. Granted, only a qualified mental health diagnostician (which I am not) can determine whether someone suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and this, following lengthy tests and personal interviews. But, in the absence of access to Barack Obama, one has to rely on his overt performance and on testimonies by his closest, nearest and dearest.
And there’s more…
In general, the narcissist is very impatient, easily bored, with strong attention deficits – unless and until he is the topic of discussion. One can publicly dissect all aspects of the intimate life of a narcissist without repercussions, providing the discourse is not “emotionally tinted”.
If asked to relate directly to his emotions, the narcissist intellectualizes, rationalizes, speaks about himself in the third person and in a detached “scientific” tone or composes a narrative with a fictitious character in it, suspiciously autobiographical. Narcissists like to refer to themselves in mechanical terms, as efficient automata or machines.
Seriousness and sense of intrusion and coercion – The narcissist is dead serious about himself. He may possess a subtle, wry, and riotous sense of humor, scathing and cynical, but rarely is he self-deprecating. The narcissist regards himself as being on a constant mission, whose importance is cosmic and whose consequences are global. If a scientist – he is always in the throes of revolutionizing science. If a journalist – he is in the middle of the greatest story ever. If a novelist – he is on his way to a Booker or Nobel prize.
Nobel Prize? Hmmm?
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3 responses so far ↓
1 drurig // Mar 23, 2010 at 5:31 pm
You need to look out:
I lived with, was a business partner with , and still working to get away from the damage from 40 years of troubles.
My experience over 40 years yes he has a NPD
2 John // May 8, 2010 at 9:47 am
I, too, have had personal, extended experience with a friend was certified npd. A trained and expert counselor I know declined to even meet with my friend; he said that they are too much a match for any one counselor or psychiatrist. He said thta after years of experience he has found the only hope for those with npd is complete annihilation of their world (loss of everything), and only then–and after years of group therapy–can they find help. In all his years of counseling and seeing dozens of NPD’s, he has known one who changed (thru the way described above). The only help and hope for those around NPD is to flee their presence; they will destroy you in their efforts to protect their own ego.
Unfortunately, we cannot flee this one, but we might be able to corral him and contain his destructive actions until he leaves office.
3 PatrioticPirate // Sep 19, 2011 at 7:56 am
It is indeed so, Obama is at a point where his hugely inflated self image is being challenged by reality and he is crumbling. The biggest danger in this particular period is Obama’s denial that the problem is in his approach, as a result he will seek to bring down that which has challenged his false self. This interview was put out recently as a follow up to a diagnosis that Sam Vaknin Phd put out in 2008 listen and help to get this guy out!
http://larouchepac.com/node/19464
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