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Portrait of a Narcissist as a Killer

The Last Psychiatrist has this interesting post about Christian Longo, who was recently profiled by a disgraced New York Times reporter in Esquire Magazine.  Check it out.The post is interesting because it answers the typical, "How could someone do that?" question:Longo was not a violent or mean person.But past performance is not indicative of future results because he's never been tested: he's never had a narcissistic injury, wherein you are discovered to be not what you said you were. He thought of himself as-- he wanted people to believe that-- he was a successful, rich, businessman. But the business ran out of money, the debts piled up; so he counterfeited and forged, not to cover expenses but to keep up appearances.Trapped? If he cared about money he would have stolen more of it; maybe even killed a couple of people to get their money...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on January 18, 2010 (boomark / email).