Psychologist: Rockefeller suffers 'mental disease'

Psychologist: Rockefeller suffers 'mental disease' - Boston Herald

The con man fancying himself the blue blood Clark Rockefeller is so mentally deluded he has a “diagnosis unto himself,” a psychologist testified today.

The 48-year-old defendant, on trial in Suffolk Superior Court for custodial kidnapping, suffers from two personality disorders that had him living in a fantasy world, said Catherine Howe, a forensic and clinical psychologist hired by the Bavarian bluffer’s defense team.

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