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Ravi Chandra, writing at Psychology Today Blogs, shares his psychiatrist’s view of Donald Trump’s Axios interview, focusing on “what thought processes and relational qualities” the exchange revealed. Here’s a bit:
A patient with fixed ideas displays these typical defenses.
1. An insistence on their own point of view, and an inability to listen to, comprehend, or give any weight to the other party—usually because other people’s viewpoints are threatening and destabilizing to an already fragile ego and worldview.
2. In other words: I’m right and everyone else is wrong (stamps feet).
He doesn’t reveal anything fundamental we didn’t already know, but the perspective is interesting.