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Albert Fish is one of the most deranged criminals to have lived in America. This article will summarize his life from early years to his eventual capture.

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People suffering from the Avoidant Personality Disorder feel inadequate, unworthy, inferior, and lacking in self-confidence.

The DSM uses five axes to analyze, classify, and describe these data. The patient (or subject) presents himself to a mental health diagnostician, is evaluated, tests are

In itself, body language cannot and should not be used as a diagnostic tool. But, in conjunction with psychiatric interviews and psychological tests, it can provide an ad

The main dynamic in the Borderline Personality Disorder is abandonment anxiety.

The brain-injured may acquire traits and behaviors typical of certain personality disorders.

Cluster B (the Dramatic, Emotional, or Erratic Cluster) is comprised of the Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, and Narcissistic Personality Disorders.

There is great confusion regarding the terms co-dependent, counter-dependent, and dependent.

Most personality disorders share a set of symptoms (as reported by the patient) and signs (as observed by the mental health practitioner).

Obsessive-Compulsives are constantly drawing up and dreaming up lists, rules, orders, rituals, and organizational schemes.

Many underage muggers, extortionists, purse-snatchers, rapists, robbers, shoplifters, burglars, arsonists, vandals, and animal torturers have Conduct Disorder.

Dependents never disagree with meaningful others or criticizes them. They are afraid to lose their support and emotional nurturance.

The Depressive has pervasive and continuous depressive cognitions (thoughts) and behaviors.

A whopping 40% of Anorexia Nervosa/Bulimia Nervosa patients have co-morbid personality disorders (mostly Cluster B - Narcissistic, Histrionic, Antisocial, Borderline).

A whopping 40% of Anorexia Nervosa/Bulimia Nervosa patients have co-morbid personality disorders (mostly Cluster B - Narcissistic, Histrionic, Antisocial, Borderline).

Mental health practitioners freely borrow tools and techniques from a myriad therapeutic systems.

Narcissists and psychopaths lack empathy. It is safe to say that the same applies to patients with other personality disorders, notably the Schizoid, Paranoid, Borderline

Therapists, psychologists, social workers, and psychiatrists report negative feelings towards patients with personality disorders.

Most patients with the Histrionic Personality Disorder are women. This immediately raises the question: Is this a real mental health disorder or a culture-bound syndrome

The narcissist suffers from uncontrollable rage and grandiose fantasies. Most narcissists are also mildly obsessive-compulsive. Yet, all narcissists should be held accoun

But if personality disorders are not objective clinical entities - what should we make of the insanity defense (NGRI- Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity)?

The masochist has been taught from an early age to hate herself and consider herself unworthy of love and worthless as a person.

Patients with personality disorders are often anxious. Narcissists, for instance, are preoccupied with the need to secure social approval or attention (Narcissistic Suppl

Asperger's Disorder is often misdiagnosed as a cluster B personality disorder, most often as the Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD).

The Bipolar Disorder got its name because the mania is followed by - usually protracted - depressive attacks. A similar pattern of mood shifts and dysphorias occurs in ma

The narcissist sends a message to his psychotherapist: there is nothing you can teach me, I am as intelligent as you are.

We all heard the terms "psychopath" or "sociopath". It is hard to distinguish narcissists from psychopaths.

Some people are perennial pessimists and have "negative energy" and negativistic attitudes.

The NOS diagnosis is a laundry list of all personality-related dysfunctions, signs, symptoms, and complaints that do not fit a specific personality disorder.

According to the DSM IV-TR, Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is diagnosed in between 2% and 16% of the population in clinical settings (between 0.5-1% of the gener

Perhaps the most immediately evident trait of patients with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is their vulnerability to criticism and disagreement.

The Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is not a new psychological construct. In previous centuries it was called "egotism" or "megalomania". It is an extreme form of

Let us hope that the "scholars" of the DSM V Committee have the good sense to remove this blatant tool of social control from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.

The paranoid's world is hostile, arbitrary, malicious, and unpredictable.

Most therapists now adhere to three modern methods: Brief Therapies, the Common Factors approach, and Eclectic techniques.

Psychotic microepisodes are common in certain personality disorders, most notably the Borderline and Schizotypal.

The Sadistic Personality disorder is characterized by a pattern of gratuitous cruelty, aggression, and demeaning behaviors.

Schizoids enjoy nothing and seemingly never experience pleasure.

Do you believe in UFOs and alien abductions? You may be suffering from the Schizotypal Personality Disorder.

The sexuality of patients with personality disorders is thwarted and stunted.

Syphilis in its tertiary (brain consuming) phase produces symptoms that are easily misdiagnosed as Bipolar Disorder comorbid with Personality Disorders.

The psychopath has antisocial traits coupled with and enhanced by callousness, ruthlessness, extreme lack of empathy, deficient impulse control, deceitfulness,

Malignant optimists see signs of hope in every fluctuation, read meanings and patterns into every random occurrence, utterance, or slip.

Our personality is who we truly are, that which makes us unique, our vertiable charcater, traits, qualities, and shortcomings.

A critical analysis of the recent film entitled 300.

If Michael Moore has as fruitful a next decade as his last one, well, we're all in trouble. However, it's odd to see naive softness trump skeptical hope in "Capitalism."

The Most Overrated Films is a collection of short reflections on films throughout history that have received much praise and honour without ever really deserving it.

Brudos was mentally ill and was victimized by his mother who dressed him as a girl. He developed schizophrenia and collected the shoes and body parts of his victims.

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