A posting on the Psychology Todayblog by Dr. Vinita Mehta entitled “Is there a Criminal Mind? What Does It Look Like?” provides the following description of the antisocial: “A putative definition of antisocial personality disorder states that it is a mental health condition in which a person has ‘a long-term pattern of manipulating, exploiting, or violating the rights of others.'” To the question of what people with an antisocial personality are like, Dr. Mehta replies: “antisocial offenders with borderline personality disorder are emotionally reactive, unable to regulate emotions, bereft of cognitive empathy (knowing how the other person feels), rageful, and reactively aggressive.”
When I stop and ask if there is anyone I know who exhibits these indications of antisocial personality disorder, I think immediately of our President Donald Trump.