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Personality Disorder Research 10 - 2007
Here are quick links to the studies that were reviewed at Suite101 PD during the month of October 2007.
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Common PD Features
Most personality disorders share a set of symptoms (as reported by the patient) and signs (as observed by the mental health practitioner).
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Cluster B Disorders
Cluster B (the Dramatic, Emotional, or Erratic Cluster) is comprised of the Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, and Narcissistic Personality Disorders.
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Npd - Prevalence, Comorbidity
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
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Mental Disorders and Crime: Personality Disorders
An examination of the relationships between personality disorders and criminal behavior/violence.
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Npd Diagnostic Criteria
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
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NOS Personality
The NOS diagnosis is a laundry list of all personality-related dysfunctions, signs, symptoms, and complaints that do not fit a specific personality disorder.
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Medication, Personality & Suicide
What do we know about the effectiveness of drug therapies used in the treatment PD suicidal behavior? Dr. Robert Cardish sums it up.
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Antisocial Personality Research
Here are summaries and quick links to the latest research in 2007 on Antisocial PD and Psychopathy.
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Narcissism and Psychopathy
Can a person be a little psychopathic, and if so, why isn't this considered narcissism rather than psychopathy? What's the distinction?
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The Insanity of the Defense
A person is held not responsible for his criminal actions if s/he cannot tell right from wrong ("lacks substantial capacity either to appreciate the criminality (wrongfulness) of his conduct" - diminished capacity), did not intend to act the way he did (absent "mens rea") and/or could not control his behavior ("irresistible impulse"). These handicaps are often associated with "mental disease or defect" or "mental retardation".
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New Borderline PD Research 10-07
Here are summaries and Quick Links to the latest 2007 studies on Borderline Personality Disorder.
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NPD Clinical Features
Perhaps the most immediately evident trait of patients with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is their vulnerability to criticism and disagreement.
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Personality Disorder Research 9-07
Here are quick links to the studies that were reviewed at Suite101 PD during the month of Sept 2007.
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The Spectrum of Personality
Social psychologists view personality as existing on a continuum. Clinical psychologists see a distinction between 'normal' and 'pathological.' Which view is correct?
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Avoidant Personality
People suffering from the Avoidant Personality Disorder feel inadequate, unworthy, inferior, and lacking in self-confidence.
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Borderline Personality
The main dynamic in the Borderline Personality Disorder is abandonment anxiety.
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Borderline Personality Disorder Brain Anatomy
A study recently appearing in the May 2007 issue of Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience reviews what we know about brain structure of BPD patients.
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Borderline Personality Disorder Brain Metabolism
A study recently appearing in the May 2007 issue of Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience reviews what we know about brain physiology of BPD patients.
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Diagnosing Disorders
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) describes 12 ideal "prototypes" of personality disorders. It provides lists of seven to nine personality traits per each disor
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Difference Between Narcissism & Psychopathy
These articles explore the similarities and differences between the two Cluster B disorders of narcissistic and antisocial personality.
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Duane Dobbert Personality Disorders
Deceptively thin, but bursting with information, Dr. Duane Dobbert's new book is a winner as a brief but comprehensive reference.
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The Neurodevelopmental Impact of Childhood Abuse
Describes in greater detail how abuse affects the brain, leading to the development of conditions such as those seen in DID
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The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless Versus the Rest of Us by Martha Stout
How many sociopaths do you know?
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Time Heals Borderline PD Symptoms
A study recently appearing in The American Journal of Psychology reveals that many Borderline PD traits decline with age.
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The Antisiocial Brain & Violence
A recent study in the American Journal of Psychiatry suggests that frontal lobe abnormalities of those with APD may contribute to violent behavior.
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Axes of Disorders
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
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The Psychopath Antisocial
The psychopath has antisocial traits coupled with and enhanced by callousness, ruthlessness, extreme lack of empathy, deficient impulse control, deceitfulness,
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Abuse By Proxy
Abusers often use other people to do their dirty work for them. These - sometimes unwitting - accomplices belong to three groups.
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Ambient Abuse
Ambient abuse is the stealth, subtle, underground currents of maltreatment that sometimes go unnoticed even by the victims themselves, until it is too late. Ambient abuse penetrates and permeates everything - but is difficult to pinpoint and identify. It is ambiguous, atmospheric, diffuse. Hence its insidious and pernicious effects. It is by far the most dangerous kind of abuse there is.
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Avoiding the Abuser - I. The Submissive Posture
Abusers react to the slightest provocation - real or imagined - with disproportionate wrath and, often, violence. It is important, therefore, never to openly and repeatedly disagree with your abuser or contradict him. If you do - your abuser is bound to walk away, but only after he has vilified and harmed you in every way he can.
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Avoiding the Abuser - II. The Conflictive Posture
Contrary to its name, the conflictive posture is actually about avoiding conflict by minimizing contact and insisting on boundaries. It is about refusal to accept abusive behavior by demanding reasonably predictable and rational actions and reactions. It is about respect for you and for your predilections, preferences, emotions, needs, and priorities.
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Avoiding Your Paranoid Ex
The paranoid's conduct is unpredictable and there is no "typical scenario". But experience shows that you can minimise the danger to yourself and to your household by taking some basic steps.
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Befriending the System
Communicate with your abuser politely and reasonably. Do not let yourself get provoked! Do not throw temper tantrums or threaten anyone, not even indirectly! Restrain your hostility. Talk calmly and articulately. Count to ten or take a break, if you must.
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Codependence
There is great confusion regarding the terms co-dependent, counter-dependent, and dependent.
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Compulsive Personality
Obsessive-Compulsives are constantly drawing up and dreaming up lists, rules, orders, rituals, and organizational schemes.
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Condoning Abuse
Abuse is bound to be found in patriarchal, narcissistic, or misogynistic collectives. Many societies exhibit cross sections of these three traits. Thus, most patriarchal groups are also misogynistic, either overtly and ideologically so - or covertly and in denial.
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Conning the System
Offenders are uncanny in their ability to deceive their evaluators. They often succeed in transforming therapists and diagnosticians into four types of collaborators: the adulators, the blissfully ignorant, the self-deceiving and those deceived by the batterer's conduct or statements.
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Contracting with Your Abuser
How can one negotiate with an abuser without incurring his wrath? What is the meaning of contracts "signed" with bullies? How can one motivate the abuser to keep his end of the bargain - for instance, to actually seek therapy and attend the sessions? And how efficacious is psychotherapy or counseling to start with?
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Coping with Various Types of Stalkers
Clearly, coping techniques suited to one type of stalker may backfire or prove to be futile with another. The only denominator common to all bullying stalkers is their pent-up rage. The stalker is angry at his or her targets and hates them. He perceives his victims as unnecessarily and churlishly frustrating. The aim of stalking is to "educate" the victim and to punish her.
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Coping with Your Abuser
Sometimes it looks hopeless. Abusers are ruthless, immoral, sadistic, calculated, cunning, persuasive, deceitful - in short, they appear to be invincible. They easily sway the system in their favor. Here is a list of escalating countermeasures. They represent the distilled experience of thousands of victims of abuse. They may help you cope with abuse and overcome it.
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Coping with Your Stalker
Abuse by proxy continues long after the relationship is officially over (at least as far as you are concerned). The majority of abusers get the message, however belatedly and reluctantly. Others – more vindictive and obsessed – continue to haunt their ex-spouses for years to come. These are the stalkers.
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Dependent Personality
Dependents never disagree with meaningful others or criticizes them. They are afraid to lose their support and emotional nurturance.
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Depressive Personality
The Depressive has pervasive and continuous depressive cognitions (thoughts) and behaviors.
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Eclectic Psychotherapy
Mental health practitioners freely borrow tools and techniques from a myriad therapeutic systems.
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Histrionic PD
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
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How to Cope with Your Paranoid Ex
Abuse is a criminal offense and, by definition, abusers are criminals: they lack empathy and compassion, have deficient social skills, disregard laws, norms, contracts, and morals. You can't negotiate with your abusive ex and you can't strike a bargain with him. You can't reform, cure, or recondition him. He is a threat to you, to your property, and to your dear ones. Treat him as such. The most dangerous class of abusers is the paranoid-delusional.
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How to Spot an Abuser on Your First Date
Is there anything you can do to avoid abusers and narcissists to start with? Are there any warning signs, any identifying marks, rules of thumbs to shield you from the harrowing and traumatic experience of an abusive relationship?
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In Defense of Psychoanalysis - Part II
All theories - scientific or not - start with a problem. They aim to solve it by proving that what appears to be "problematic" is not. They re-state the conundrum, or introduce new data, new variables, a new classification, or new organizing principles. They incorporate the problem in a larger body of knowledge, or in a conjecture ("solution").
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In Defense of Psychoanalysis - Part III
Psychological theories of the mind are metaphors of the mind. They are fables and myths, narratives, stories, hypotheses, conjunctures. They play (exceedingly) important roles in the psychotherapeutic setting – but not in the laboratory.
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