'Grandiose Narcissism': How Kevin Rudd had used his personality to lose the federal election.
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[quote]The Financial Review reports that held deep within the top strategy group of the Liberal war room was a document which gave a name and a diagnosis to the personality of Kevin Rudd. It was a document provided to the Liberal’s strategy team on an informal basis by a psychiatrist friendly to the Liberals after Rudd had returned to the Labor leadership on June 26. In a nutshell, this document offered an arm’s-length diagnosis of Rudd as suffering a personality disorder known as “grandiose narcissism”.
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Rudd, the document went on, was vulnerable to any challenge to his self-belief that he was more widely-read, smarter and more knowledgeable than anyone else “on the planet”. Such a condition of grandiose narcissism would make Rudd obsessively paranoid, excessively vindictive – “prepared to wait years to get revenge”.[/quote]
[url=http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/grandiose-narcissist-the-secret-diagnosis-that-helped-bring-down-kevin-rudd-20130909-2tfum.html]Source[/url]
Biased pro-Liberal article out to slander Kev's good name or something that's just stating the obvious? You decide :v:
I'm pretty sure lots of politicians are like that.
Every single person who runs for high public office is a closet narcissist.
[QUOTE=Starpluck;42130974]Every single person who runs for high public office is a closet narcissist.[/QUOTE]
well no, I'd say all career politicians are but there's always the odd person who gets into politics to change something
[QUOTE=Generic Monk;42130987]well no, I'd say all career politicians are but there's always the odd person who gets into politics to change something[/QUOTE]
I'd say most career politicians just wanna keep their job.
[QUOTE=Swilly;42131002]I'd say most career politicians just wanna keep their job.[/QUOTE]
You don't understand that the question is why did they choose that to be "[I]their[/I] job" in the first place.
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