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Authoritarianism and the Cultic Dynamic

Traumatic Narcissism in American Politics Today

June 8, 2018 • by Daniel Shaw

I spent thirteen years of my life, including all of my thirties, as a fervent devotee of an Indian guru. I lived communally and worked full-time in the guru’s organization, until one day, after a long process I now know was me slowly coming out of dissociation, it dawned on ...

How Populists Become Popular

The speculative shift in politics

April 3, 2018 • by Péter Csigó

In the past decades, we have all learned to see politics as a popularity contest where politicians use polls to detect the position of the popular majority and try to sell this position in their media appearances. There is a common tendency to see populist figures like Donald Trump or ...

The Insanity of Narcissism

Exploring Narcissism in Today’s Politics

April 22, 2017 • by Daniel Shaw

Mental health practitioners generally agree, since the Goldwater days, that it is not appropriate to offer psychoanalytic diagnoses of public figures we’ve never actually interviewed or treated. However, many of us, myself included, are chomping at the bit these days. It’s especially tempting for me, since I’ve been writing and ...