A woman reader mildly reproached me by posing this question:

“If Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had no qualms in pointing to President Benigno Aquino 3rd as the head of state who held up the traditional leaders’ photo-taking at the ASEAN summit in Malaysia, why did you refrain from saying outright that President Aquino may have a narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) as described in your column?” (“A Diagnosis in search of a patient,” Manila Times, 28 April 2015).

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