Reply #78: Interesting! I just made a stab at diagnosing GWB this weekend

[vickitulsa]

and after considering some of what you mentioned in your post, I settled on Socialized Psychopath or Sociopath, sometimes called a "Serial Bully."

I don't have a DSM-V handy, so I don't know the numbers to assign, but here is a very interesting list of symptoms/behaviors of this type of personality:

http://www.bullyonline.org/workbully/serial.htm#Sociopath

For those who won't go read the many descriptive points of the social psychopath, here are just a few of them:

-- always charming and beguilingly plausible, especially to those who are capable of protecting or enhancing the sociopath's position

-- excels at deception (this must never be underestimated, but always is)

-- excels at evasion of accountability

-- will often engineer himself or herself into a position of authority as gatekeeper of the organisation and thus the person through whom all information must flow, and the person to whom all requests for services must be referred - which he or she then takes delight in denying

-- is adept at offering weak and inadequate people the positions of power, control, security, influence or respect that they crave but who lack the necessary competencies to achieve - such people are unaware that their consequent dependence on the sociopath makes them permanent manipulatees, pawns and expendable agents of harassment

-- is contemptuous of disrepute to their organisation and of collateral damage and of the destructive consequences for all direct and indirect parties

-- is skilled at identifying, undermining, discrediting, neutralising and destroying anyone who can see through the sociopath's mask of sanity

-- at all times restricts the actions and rights of others (especially those holding the sociopath accountable) whilst aggressively protecting his or her right to do anything without being hampered by social norms or legal requirements

and lastly and perhaps most frighteningly:

-- only after the sociopath is exposed and relieved of position, or they move on, can the full depth of their destructive behaviour be fathomed and the consequences calculated.