Mental health professionals: ‘Donald Trump suffers from a dangerous incurable narcissistic disorder’

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President Donald Trump’s mental fitness to hold office was the focus of a new op-ed published in the The Sydney Morning Herald by two mental health professionals.

The column was written by Ian Hughes, a senior research fellow at the MaREI Centre at University College Cork in Ireland and Alan D. Blotcky, a clinical psychologist in private practice in Birmingham, Alabama.

“For almost four years, there has hardly been a day that Donald Trump has not made front-page news,” they wrote. “Of all the thousands of headlines, there is one headline that has not been printed but that makes the most sense of all: ‘Donald Trump suffers from a dangerous incurable narcissistic disorder which makes him incapable of empathy or reason. He is a grave danger to the US and the world.'” Continue reading.