Not a day goes by, it seems, without somebody speculating in the media about Donald Trump's mental health.
The Republican Party's presidential nominee has been called, for example, “a textbook narcissist,” “not sane,” “crazy,” a “sociopath,” "simply bananas" and “totally nuts.”
In a recent article in the Atlantic, Dan P. McAdams, a psychologist at Northwestern University, explored Trump's personality — particularly his “narcissism, disagreeableness and grandiosity” — in lengthy detail. Other psychologists have offered up their opinions as well. George Simon, a psychologist who has written extensively about manipulative behavior, told Vanity Fair that Trump's narcissistic personality disorder was “so classic that I'm archiving video clips of him to use in workshops because there's no better example of his characteristics.”
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