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- Many past and contemporary dictators suffer from extraordinarily high levels of narcissism, psychopathy and paranoia. They have an inflated sense of self-importance and feel entitled to the admiration of others. An inherent lack of empathy, guilt or remorse allows the most malignant to commit unspeakable atrocities.
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Nov 11, 2011 · Libya's Muammar al-Gaddafi, for example, is paranoid, narcissistic, power-hungry, and vain. Belarus's Alexander Lukashenko is among the world's most dangerous dictators; he actively attacks his...
- Psychology Today Canada
I have analyzed the traits of many modern-day dictators and...
- Psychology Today Canada
Mar 2, 2024 · Faced with credible threats, even from trusted confidants, it is natural for a degree of paranoia to set in. However, the extent of dictators’ fears requires a deeper investigation. An additional perspective may lie in the unique fabric of their individual personalities.
Sep 23, 2019 · The world over, dictators seem to share similar characteristics — a need for admiration, excessive paranoia, and ruthless brutality. At the same time, a relatively healthy, “normal”...
Nov 11, 2011 · I have analyzed the traits of many modern-day dictators and have identified commonalities with classic psychopaths. Libya's Muammar al-Gaddafi, for example, is paranoid, narcissistic , power ...
Aug 28, 2019 · How to Be a Dictator. Frank Dikötter Bloomsbury (2019) For this magisterial study on the misuse of power, historian Frank Dikötter analysed the strategies of eight brutal twentieth-century...
- Barbara Kiser
- 2019
Dec 16, 2019 · Then comes the isolation of the dictator within his palace—friendless and paranoid—and the pruning of his circle to an ever more sycophantic few.
personality characteristic possessed by dictators is paranoia, and many of the “Great Dictators” of human history have in fact been consumed by this form of anxiety, including the Roman Emperors Tiberius and Commodus, and in our own time Stalin and Mao-Tse-Tung. Many lesser dictators are afflicted as well: the