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Sun, 04/23/2017 - 7:30pm

Open thread for night owls: How to deal with a psychopath

Today the Associated Press published the transcript of a Friday interview with Donald Trump with such a high a concentration of lunacy per unit word you could be forgiven for wondering if it was a hoax. Alas, it was not. xAs a student of govt, int'l relations & leadership, I am aghast reading this verbatim transcript.Too much to process https://t.co/y5xvPUnT05— Mark Hertling (@MarkHertling) April 23, 2017 Hours later, and apropos of nothing in particular, Time magazine tweeted a link to an October 2016 article by Eric Barker that someone on Time’s weekend shift presumably thought readers would be interested in today: 5 Ways to Deal With a Psychopath. x"5 ways to deal with a psychopath" https://t.co/onBMlugqSJ— TIME (@TIME) April 23, 2017 Among the embedded tips culled from a variety of works on the subject: There are many psychopaths out there whose “intelligence, family background, social skills, and circumstances permit them to construct a facade of normality.” Though obsessively narcissistic and devoid of empathy, they are experts at manipulating others by pretending to “share similar qualities.” As managers, they are eager to “create conflicts and rivalries” among those surrounding them for the purpose of “keeping them from sharing information that might cover [their] deceit.” They tend to “kiss up and kick down”, belittling those with little power while flattering those with power or status they can use.

 

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