by Harper West | May 6, 2026 | Trump
This video by Matthew Cooke draws the same comparisons I’ve drawn between family systems of narcissistic abuse and societal levels of authoritarianism such as the Trump/Vance/MAGA regime. My understanding of narcissism and narcissistic family systems was why I — can...
by Harper West | Jan 30, 2026 | Trump
Given the tyrannical and fascistic behaviors of the current U.S. administration, many of us are feeling emotions of horror, disgust, and anger. I’ve decided to blog out the text of a 2020 article I wrote for the Journal of Humanistic Psychology on the emotion of...
by Harper West | Jan 19, 2026 | The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, Trump
This meme summarizes some of what I wrote about in The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump in early 2017. That book when on to become a #1 bestseller because at that time so many people were trying to make sense of this deeply troubled person who had surprisingly (with...
by Harper West | Mar 26, 2025 | Narcissist, Trump
As an expert in shame and its impact on human behavior, I have been keenly aware of a lack of shame among Republican politicians, especially in the past 10 years. Donald Trump, of course, is leading the competition in his complete lack of humility and in his inability...
by Harper West | Mar 10, 2025 | Trump
America is now a post-moral society. This is what I’m going to start calling the era we’re in. That’s because 75 million people clearly believe that immorality is just fine. They support lying (lots of lying!), greed, bullying, venality, sexual assault, bigotry,...
by Harper West | Nov 8, 2024 | Trump
I have greatly decreased my posts on Trump’s mental health and its impact on our country and culture in the past 6 years, because there is only so much you can repeat on the same, obvious problem. Sadly, the election results merely confirm much of what...
