From Discover Magazine: Using psychiatry and neuroscience to explain President Trump’s personality and behavior leads to circular reasoning.
“We donât need these kinds of quasi-scientific analyses of Trumpâs (or anyoneâs) character. We should stick to describing and commenting on the behaviour that we can directly observe. If Trump is rash, then thatâs it: heâs rash. It doesnât matter whatâs going on in his brain to make him that way. If heâs egotistic and selfish, then just say so â it adds nothing to the discussion to speculate about whether he meets criteria for ânarcissistic personality disorderâ, not to mention that such a diagnosis-at-a-distance is ethically questionable.”
