via Jerry Sandusky sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison - The Washington Post
As a therapist, I have been waiting (and waiting) for someone to talk about the obvious fact that Sandusky and likely his wife are mentally ill people who functioned at a high enough level to maintain high-profile lives filled with achievement and all the perks of success. I wrote about it when he was first going to trial: it's patently clear that Sandusky is some brand of pathological narcissist who cannot empathize with his victims and who genuinely deeply believes he is the victim in all this. In other words, he is a textbook case of pathological narcissism, and the latest revelations -- that he believes the charges are all manufactured by a conspiracy of victims -- should be treated not as "ooh, Sandusky says" but rather as what they are: the ravings of a madman.What I'd like to know is how many of the people who worked with and for him knew all long that he was sick, and how many shrugged it off as "oh, that's just Jerry" or "shut up, he's making us shitloads of money." As for his wife, she would hardly be the first submissive housewife to build walls of delusion around herself so thick that there's only room for a few porcelein dolls and a hankie to blow her nose.
If you haven't already, I recommend journalist Jon Ronson's, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
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