Doctor describes Trump as paranoid and insane

Filed 1h ago · Via Courthouse News · The Buffoon Desk

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Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0

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A columnist revisits Emil Kraepelin's 1921 psychiatric text on manic-depressive insanity and paranoia, arguing its descriptions of grandiosity, persecution complexes, and pretentious self-regard match Donald Trump closely.

The piece quotes extensively from Kraepelin on paranoid patients who demand compensation, invent nicknames for enemies, write in escalating capital letters, and end up in financial difficulty through borrowing and swindling.

The column notes twelve physicians raised similar concerns in a statement entered into the Congressional Record earlier this year.

The full dispatch is available from the source below.

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Diagnosing a president through a hundred-year-old textbook is a neat trick, and it says something about the moment that so many people find it persuasive rather than absurd. A dead Bavarian doctor never met the man being described, and that's sort of the point people are making. Whether it's medicine or just a very well-read insult, the reader gets to decide.

Source: Read the original at Courthouse News → Scored: Spy Glass · Kevin MacLeod · CC BY 4.0

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