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>> theres a difference between being narcissistic and then actually having a disorder. >> right. theres a difference between the personality trait and an actual disorder, and so i think what a lot of mental health professionals are coming out and saying is this has crossed the line. this is a problem. this person has lost their ability to have reality testing because they do have this disorder, because their need to feed their own ego allows them to disregard truth and to disassociate from truth...

Narcissists? >> yeah, i think that to run for president, there has to be some level of that. donald trump is certainly not the first narcissistic president weve ever had, but its a matter of degree. >> theres a difference between being narcissistic and then actually having a disorder. >> right. theres a difference between the personality trait and an actual disorder, and so i think what a lot of mental health professionals are coming out and saying is this has crossed the line. this is a problem...

Than most. he co-authored "the art of deal" and is now donating the money to immigrant groups. >> what is the thing that he apologized for and said is maybe a ohio valley. that he is decompensating. a psychiatric term. what it means in simple terms, he is losing his grip on reality. his reality testing is really poor and i believe thats exactly whats going on. >> you have known him for quite some time. you collaborated in a way thats unusual. he is no stranger to the media. but in a lot of bit...

And though his vision was narrow from the start, i think its getting smaller and smaller and smaller, and it would allow him to say even more outrageous things than hes already said, including for example today, im winning in the poll. >> yes, yes. >> what reality testing is that about? its just really extraordinary. i think hes living, you know, i have said before, he lives in a tiny little narcissistic universe, but if it was this, its now this. so i dont think hes seeing very far outside that...

>> compared to the number of things hes feeling eviscerated by and depressed about, the prospect that there are lawyers out there that will take cases pro bono is a puzzle to him. what i think about his vision, and this is something that happens neurologically. as the threat looms larger, your vision, thats the flight or fight response narrows. and though his vision was narrow from the start, i think its getting smaller and smaller and smaller, and it would allow him to say even more outrageous ...

Because elliot rodger convinced them that there was not a problem, a san diego that enough, and fine, go back to the business and all is good, and we are not the mind police. >> this is the problem, because it is difficult even for the best mental health trained professionals to predict violence and let alone somebody else who is not this the mental health arena, but when you have a person who is albeit socially awkward and socially awkward and premeditated planning and reality testing and recog...

Sexting, this sort of thing, kind of what you heard about in this anthony weiner case, and that patient was running for mayor of new york and there were 44 days left in the campaign and all of this was happening, what would you recommend that patient would do for his own mental health? >> well, i think it is a great question -- >> thank you, i worked on it all day. >> but i also think he is not necessarily thinking about it in the way of mental health. i think the way he is sort of speaking to t...