Tyrannical Minds: Psychological Profiling, Narcissism, and Dictatorship

Not everyone can become a tyrant. It requires a particular confluence of events to gain absolute control over entire nations.



First, you must be born with the potential to develop brutal personality traits. Second, your predisposition to antisocial behavior must be developed and strengthened during childhood. Finally, you must come of age when the political system of your country is unstable. Together, these events establish a basis for a rise to power, one that Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, ...