Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West Lost the East. He is a columnist for Central Europe Review, PopMatters, and eBookWeb , a United Press International (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent, and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory Bellaonline, and Suite101 . Until recently, he served as the Economic Advisor to the Government of Macedonia. Visit Sam's Web site at http://samvak.tripod.com/palma@unet.com.mk To improve your Physics, visit SD Tutor Advisor.com - http://www.tutoradvisor.com.sg/ We have a list of Physics Tutors for your Physics Tuition.
Misdiagnosing Narcissism - Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) (The use of gender pronouns in this article reflects the clinical facts: most narcissists are men.)Anxiety Disorders - and especially Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) - are often misdiagnosed as Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD).Anxiety is uncontrollable and excessive apprehension. Anxiety disorders usually come replete with obsessive thoughts, compulsive and ritualistic acts, restlessness...... Similar Editorial : Narcissism and Personality Disorders by Sam Vaknin. | Source : Trait Anxiety
Misdiagnosing Personality Disorders As Anxiety Disorders What is AnxietyAnxiety is uncontrollable and excessive apprehension, a kind of unpleasant (dysphoric), mild fear, with no apparent external reason.?Anxiety is dread in anticipation of a future menace or an imminent but diffuse and unspecified danger, usually imagined or exaggerated. The mental state of anxiety (and the concomitant hypervigilance) has physiological complements. It is accompanied by...... Similar Editorial : Narcissism and Personality Disorders by Sam Vaknin. | Source : Trait Anxiety
Addiction And Personality A voluminous literature notwithstanding, there is little convincing empirical research about the correlation between personality traits and addictive behaviors. Substance abuse and dependence (alcoholism, drug addiction) is only one form of recurrent and self-defeating pattern of misconduct. People are addicted to all kinds of things: gambling, shopping, the Internet, reckless and life-endangering...... Similar Editorial : Addiction to Self by Margaret Paul, Ph.d.. | Source : Food Addictions
Narcissism And Addiction In our attempt to decipher the human psyche (in itself a mere construct, not an ontological entity), we have come up with two answers:I. That behaviors, moods, emotions, and cognitions are wholly reducible to biochemical reactions and neural pathways in the brain. This medicalization of what it is to be human is inevitably hotly contested.II. That behaviors, moods, emotions, and cognitions can be...... Similar Editorial : Addiction to Self by Margaret Paul, Ph.d.. | Source : Food Addictions
Eating Disorders And Personality Disorders (narcissism) Question:Do narcissists also suffer from eating disorders such as bulimia nervosa or anorexia nervosa?Answer:Patients suffering from eating disorders either binge on food or refrain from eating and sometimes are both anorectic and bulimic. This is an impulsive behaviour as defined by the DSM and is sometimes comorbid with Cluster B personality disorder, particularly with the Borderline Personality...... Similar Editorial : Narcissism and Personality Disorders by Sam Vaknin. | Source : Anorexia Symptoms
Misdiagnosing Personality Disorders As Eating Disorders The Eating Disordered Patient Eating disorders - notably Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa - are complex phenomena. The patient with eating disorder maintains a distorted view of her body as too fat or as somehow defective (she may have a body dysmorphic disorder). Many patients with eating disorders are found in professions where body form and image are emphasized (e.g., ballet...... Similar Editorial : Narcissism and Personality Disorders by Sam Vaknin. | Source : Anorexia Symptoms
Brain And Personality Phineas Gage was a 25 years old construction foreman who lived in Vermont in the 1860s. While working on a railroad bed, he packed powdered explosives into a hole in the ground, using tamping iron. The powder heated and blew in his face. The tamping iron rebounded and pierced the top of his skull, ravaging the frontal lobes. In 1868, Harlow, his doctor, reported the changes to his personality...... Similar Editorial : Water on the Brain by Ieuan Dolby. | Source : Human Psychology
Psychotherapy As Storytelling Storytelling has been with us since the days of campfire and besieging wild animals. It served a number of important functions: amelioration of fears, communication of vital information (regarding survival tactics and the characteristics of animals, for instance), the satisfaction of a sense of order (justice), the development of the ability to hypothesize, predict and introduce theories and so on...... Source : Human Psychology
Narcissist Vs. Psychopath We all heard the terms "psychopath" or "sociopath". These are the old names for a patient with the Antisocial Personality Disorder (AsPD). It is hard to distinguish narcissists from psychopaths. The latter may simply be a less inhibited and less grandiose form of the former. Indeed, the DSM V Committee is considering to abolish this distinction altogether. Still, there are some important nuances...... Similar Editorial : The Depressive Narcissist by Sam Vaknin. | Source : Attention Deficit Disorder Children
The Psychopath And Antisocial Roots of the Disorder Are the psychopath, sociopath, and someone with the Antisocial Personality Disorder one and the same? The DSM says "yes". Scholars such as Robert Hare and Theodore Millon beg to differ. The psychopath has antisocial traits for sure but they are coupled with and enhanced by callousness, ruthlessness, extreme lack of empathy, deficient impulse control, deceitfulness, and...... Similar Editorial : Antisocial Personality Disorder by Juliet Cohen. | Source : Attention Deficit Disorder Children
Psychological Tests Personality assessment is perhaps more an art form than a science. In an attempt to render it as objective and standardized as possible, generations of clinicians came up with psychological tests and structured interviews. These are administered under similar conditions and use identical stimuli to elicit information from respondents. Thus, any disparity in the responses of the subjects can and is...... Similar Editorial : Psychological Computer Protection by Josh George. | Source : Attention Deficit Disorder Children
Eclectic Psychotherapy The early days of the emerging discipline of psychology were inevitably rigidly dogmatic. Clinicians belonged to well-demarcated schools and practiced in strict accordance with canons of writings by "masters" such as Freud, or Jung, or Adler, or Skinner. Psychology was less a science than an ideology or an art form. Freud's work, for instance, though incredibly insightful, is closer to literature...... Source : Attention Deficit Disorder Children
The Hateful Patient - Difficult Patients In Psychotherapy In 1978, a?medical doctor?by the name of J.E. Groves published in the prestigious?New England Journal of Medicine an article titled "Taking Care of the Hateful Patient". In it he admitted that patients with personality disorders often evoke in their physicians dislike or even outright hatred. ?Groves described four types of such undesirable patients: "dependent clingers" (codependents), "entitled...... Similar Editorial : Hateful and Annoying Spywares by Kavita. | Source : Attention Deficit Disorder Children
Psychosis, Delusions, And Personality Disorders Introduction to Psychosis?Psychosis is chaotic thinking that is the result of a severely impaired reality test (?the patient cannot tell inner fantasy?from outside reality). Some psychotic?states are short-lived and transient (microepisodes). These last from a few hours to a few days and are sometimes reactions to stress. Psychotic microepisodes are common in certain personality disorders, most...... Source : Attention Deficit Disorder Children
The Psychopathic Patient - A Case Study Notes of first therapy session with?Ani Korban, male, 46, diagnosed with?Antisocial Personality Disorder (AsPD), or Psychopathy and Sociopathy?Ani was referred to therapy by the court, as part of a rehabilitation program. He is serving time in prison, having been convicted of grand fraud. The scam perpetrated by him involved hundreds of retired men and women in a dozen states over a period of...... Similar Editorial : The Depressive Patient by Sam Vaknin. | Source : Attention Deficit Disorder Children
