Spiky Bugger
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The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President
And, we had pre-ordered but the price was discounted, so we paid <$17 instead of $25+. So...cool.
If you enjoyed Psych classes, you will find this collection of essays fascinating...as well as the underlying in-house debate between the "Goldwater Rule" folks v the "Duty to Warn" folks.
I have some fancy piece of paper here that says I at least tried to learn stuff that can be gathered under the title of "Human Development," which is tangentally related to things like "Child Development," except that is starts pre-conception and goes to death. Reading these essays, I have learned (and/or revisited) things about development that so clearly explain why Trump is the way he is, and why that is dangerous to us...to the planet.
From the essay by Lance Dodes, MD, who has been on the Duty to Warn side of the debate:
"In early development, everything is happening at once. Major emotional capacities are developing alongside major cognitive capacities. Children must develop ways to manage emotional distress: anxiety, confusion, disappointment, loss, fear, all while they are growing in their capacity to think, and sorting out what is real and what is their imagination. We all develop systems to do this, to tolerate and control our emotions, understand and empathize with the people around us, and tell the diferences between reality and wishes or fears.
"But not people with the early, primitive [earlier defined as "ancient personal times"] emotional problems seen in sociopathy. They do not tolerate disappointments; instead, they fly into rages and claim that the upsetting reality isn't real. They make up an alternative reality and insist that it is true. This is the definition of a delusion. When it is told to others, it is basically a lie. ... Later, when they are less stressed, they explain their loss of reality with rationalization or simply more lies."
And..."...It is notable that people with sociopathic traits have been found to have abnormalities in the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala regions of their brains, areas closely associated with essential cognitive and emotional functions."
Tony Schwartz, the actual author of The Art of the Deal, wrote, "...In neurochemical terms, when he feels threatened or thwarted, Trump moves into a fight-or-flight state. His amygdala is triggered, his hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activates, and his prefrontal cortex--the part of the brain that makes us capable of rationality and reflection--shuts down. He reacts rather than reflects, and damn the consequences. This is what makes his access to the nuclear codes so dangerous and frightening."
Not sleep-inducing reading at bedtime.
And, we had pre-ordered but the price was discounted, so we paid <$17 instead of $25+. So...cool.
If you enjoyed Psych classes, you will find this collection of essays fascinating...as well as the underlying in-house debate between the "Goldwater Rule" folks v the "Duty to Warn" folks.
I have some fancy piece of paper here that says I at least tried to learn stuff that can be gathered under the title of "Human Development," which is tangentally related to things like "Child Development," except that is starts pre-conception and goes to death. Reading these essays, I have learned (and/or revisited) things about development that so clearly explain why Trump is the way he is, and why that is dangerous to us...to the planet.
From the essay by Lance Dodes, MD, who has been on the Duty to Warn side of the debate:
"In early development, everything is happening at once. Major emotional capacities are developing alongside major cognitive capacities. Children must develop ways to manage emotional distress: anxiety, confusion, disappointment, loss, fear, all while they are growing in their capacity to think, and sorting out what is real and what is their imagination. We all develop systems to do this, to tolerate and control our emotions, understand and empathize with the people around us, and tell the diferences between reality and wishes or fears.
"But not people with the early, primitive [earlier defined as "ancient personal times"] emotional problems seen in sociopathy. They do not tolerate disappointments; instead, they fly into rages and claim that the upsetting reality isn't real. They make up an alternative reality and insist that it is true. This is the definition of a delusion. When it is told to others, it is basically a lie. ... Later, when they are less stressed, they explain their loss of reality with rationalization or simply more lies."
And..."...It is notable that people with sociopathic traits have been found to have abnormalities in the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala regions of their brains, areas closely associated with essential cognitive and emotional functions."
Tony Schwartz, the actual author of The Art of the Deal, wrote, "...In neurochemical terms, when he feels threatened or thwarted, Trump moves into a fight-or-flight state. His amygdala is triggered, his hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activates, and his prefrontal cortex--the part of the brain that makes us capable of rationality and reflection--shuts down. He reacts rather than reflects, and damn the consequences. This is what makes his access to the nuclear codes so dangerous and frightening."
Not sleep-inducing reading at bedtime.
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