Posted on 01/28/2011 9:41:22 AM PST by iontheball
President Obama’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday night symbolically kicked off the 2012 Presidential campaign. I tuned in with what psychiatrists call a “third ear”—listening to myself listening, polling my gut for when it alerted me to true or false notes. In my office, it is this “third ear” that allows me to ask questions that get past a person’s more superficial stories, to the heart of that person. In other words, I was paying as much attention to whether I sensed the President believed what he was saying, as to whether I agreed with what he was saying.
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“If you don’t get help at Charter, please get help somewhere.”
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Other professional mental health Ph.Ds weigh in:
“Obama seems to suffer from malignant narcissism whereby he feels he is exceptional, acts like he is exceptional and his followers believe he is exceptional. On the basis of his followers opinion, Obama feels even more justified in his exceptionalism...”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2047396/posts?page=8#8
To nail that reality down further:
“..The pathological narcissist imagines he’s giving you milk when he’s actually feeding you poop; in short, he’s not a bountiful breast but a toxic a$$hole. Once you get a feel for this, you can really appreciate the ubiquity of the dynamic. Ever wonder how Noam Chomsky can be so prolific? Because the large intestine never sleeps. Likewise, mass culture is a sewer. Literally. ...
...Look at Obama. What is he? That’s part of the problem, because he clearly doesn’t know. He’s certainly not “priestly” or spiritual, based upon his long-time membership in a racist cult. He’s not intellectual, based upon his skin-deep grasp of the issues, and a mind that seems to consist of little more than recycled leftist cliches with no discernible center. He’s not a warrior; quite the opposite, as he has no feel whatsoever for military culture. He’s not a leader, as his basic masculinity is too much in doubt. He’s pretending to be something, but even he doesn’t seem to know what it is. Apparently, he wasn’t even a good community agitator, like Al Sharpton. ..” ~ Robert Godwin PhD Clinical Psychologist
Here:
Beauty, Milk, Poop, Soul Jazz, and the Miscaste Obama
http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2008/07/beauty-milk-poop-soul-jazz-and-miscaste.html
“..Narcissism is not a monolithic condition, but is actually situated along a spectrum from mild to severe. However, the most severe narcissists can often appear to be the most outwardly accomplished. One of the reasons for this is that the more severe the narcissism, the more driven they are to accomplish something in accordance with their grandiosity. ..” - Robert Godwin, PhD Clinical Psychologist
Here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190002/posts?page=29#29
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Charles Krauthammer, PhD (a trained psychiatrist) asks: Does the narcissism of this man know no bounds? Short Youtube video: http://www.thehopeforamerica.com/play.php?id=903
And we are about to see just how frozen, unable to make a foreign policy decision concerning Egypt, et al.
He is so afraid something negative will be attached to him he'll vote 'present' to a ME crisis just like he did in the Senate.
I think in his introspective moments he knows he is in way over his head and will let events play out with out his possibly making a wrong decision or one that could be criticized.
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