A HISTORY OF “HUBRIS” AND “NARCISSISM” IN WAR CONFLICTS, PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC CRISIS
Journal: Psychiatria Danubina
Year: 2024

It has been recently supported that current war conflict precipitated in Ukraine is the byproduct of Vladimir Putin's succumbing to this gross personality distortion caused by extreme power that has been identified by Owen as "The Hubris Syndrome". Discussion on diagnostic criteria for the demonstration of Hubris Syndrome (HS) in political leaders as well as on further elaboration of the proposed factors that predispose to, or prevent from, the exacerbation of this Syndrome comprises both scient