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Codependence And The Dependent Personality Disorder Before we proceed to study the Dependent Personality Disorder in our next article, we would do well to clarify these terms. Codependents Like dependents (people with the Dependent Personality Disorder), codependents depend on other people for their emotional gratification and the performance of both inconsequential and crucial daily and psychological functions. Codependents are needy, demanding,...... Similar Editorial : Narcissistic Personality Disorder by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.. | Source : Bipolar Disability
Schizotypal Personality Disorder Do you believe in the immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary and in the resurrection of her son? Then you are merely a religious person.In other words, it is OK to believe in certain "supernatural" phenomena just because such beliefs are socially acceptable and widespread. The Schizotypal Personality Disorder is one of the most culture-bound mental health diagnoses in the American Psychiatric...... Similar Editorial : Narcissistic Personality Disorder by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.. | Source : Bipolar Disability
Five Factor Personality Model The Five Factor Model was suggested by two researchers, Costa and McCrae, in 1989. The designers of previous factor models sifted through bulky dictionaries and came up with thousands of words to describe human nature in all its variability. Not so the inventors of the Five Factor Model. It is based on and derived from various personality inventories. Surprisingly, it was proven to be as powerful...... Similar Editorial : The PDQ by Cindy Morus. | Source : Bipolar Disability
Factor Models Of Personality The Five Factor Model deals with the healthy, normal personality. Not so other factor models. In 1990, Clark and a group of researchers constructed an instrument with 21 dimensions, based on the criteria of personality disorders in the DSM-III, on various scholarly texts in the field, and even on some Axis I elements. They proposed the following as descriptive axes: proneness to suicide, self...... Similar Editorial : The Likeability Factor by Linda Matias. | Source : Dealing With Bipolar
Depressive Personality Disorder The Depressive Personality Disorder is not yet recognized by the DSM Committee. It makes its appearances in Appendix B of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, titled "Criteria Sets and Axes Provided for Further Study." It is not clear in what way is the Depressive Personality Disorder different to other depressive illnesses, such as Dysthymic Disorder.The Depressive has pervasive and continuous...... Similar Editorial : Narcissistic Personality Disorder by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.. | Source : Dealing With Bipolar
Not Otherwise Specified (NOS) Personality Disorder It is a sign of the inadequacy of our current knowledge of personality disorders that both the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) and its international counterpart, the ICD, maintain a "Personality Disorders Not Otherwise Specified (NOS)" diagnostic category. It is a catch-all, meaningless, "diagnosis", a testament to the diagnostician's helplessness and ignorance in the face of...... Source : Dealing With Bipolar
Masochistic Personality Disorder The Masochistic personality disorder made its last appearance in the DSM III-TR and was removed from the DSM IV and from its text revision, the DSM IV-TR. Some scholars, notably Theodore Millon, regard its removal as a mistake and lobby for its reinstatement in future editions of the DSM.The masochist has been taught from an early age to hate herself and consider herself unworthy of love and...... Similar Editorial : Narcissistic Personality Disorder by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.. | Source : Dealing With Bipolar
Genetics And Personality Disorders To identify the role of heredity, researchers have resorted to a few tactics: they studied the occurrence of similar psychopathologies in identical twins separated at birth, in twins and siblings who grew up in the same environment, and in relatives of patients (usually across a few generations of an extended family).Tellingly, twins - both those raised apart and together - show the same...... Similar Editorial : Skin Disorders 101 by omilana. | Source : Dealing With Bipolar
Gender Bias In Diagnosing Personality Disorders Ever since Freud, more women than men sought therapy. Consequently, terms like "hysteria' are intimately connected to female physiology and alleged female psychology. The DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the bible of the psychiatric profession) expressly professes gender bias: personality disorders such as Borderline and Histrionic are supposed to be more common among women. but the DSM is...... Similar Editorial : Sex and Personality Disorders by Sam Vaknin. | Source : Dealing With Bipolar
Sadistic Personality Disorder The Sadistic Personality Disorder made its last appearance in the DSM III-TR and was removed from the DSM IV and from its text revision, the DSM IV-TR. Some scholars, notably Theodore Millon, regard its removal as a mistake and lobby for its reinstatement in future editions of the DSM.The Sadistic Personality disorder is characterized by a pattern of gratuitous cruelty, aggression, and...... Similar Editorial : Narcissistic Personality Disorder by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.. | Source : Dealing With Bipolar
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) People with the Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) are concerned (worried and anxious) about maintaining control and about being seen to be maintaining it. In other words, they are also preoccupied with the symbolic aspects and representations (with the symbols) of control. Inevitably, OCPDs are perfectionists and rigidly orderly or organized. They lack flexibility, openness and...... Source : Dealing With Bipolar
Therapy And Treatment Of Personality Disorders The dogmatic schools of psychotherapy (such as psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapies, and behaviorism) more or less failed in ameliorating, let alone curing or healing personality disorders. Disillusioned, most therapists now adhere to one or more of three modern methods: Brief Therapies, the Common Factors approach, and Eclectic techniques.Conventionally, brief therapies, as their name implies,...... Similar Editorial : Narcissism and Personality Disorders by Sam Vaknin. | Source : Dealing With Bipolar
Sex And Personality Disorders Our sexual behavior expresses not only our psychosexual makeup but also the entirety of our personality. Sex is the one realm of conduct which involves the full gamut of emotions, cognitions, socialization, traits, heredity, and learned and acquired behaviors. By observing one's sexual predilections and acts, the trained psychotherapist and diagnostician can learn a lot about the patient...... Similar Editorial : Eating Disorders by skleong. | Source : Dealing With Bipolar
Misdiagnosing Personality Disorders As Bipolar I Disorder The manic phase of the Bipolar I Disorder is often misdiagnosed as?a Personality Disorder. In the manic phase of Bipolar Disorder, patients exhibit many of the signs and symptoms of certain personality disorders, such as the Narcissistic, Borderline, Histrionic, or even Schizotypal Personality Disorders:?they are hyperactive, self-centered, lack?empathy, and are control freaks. The manic patient...... Similar Editorial : Bipolar Disorder by mattyos. | Source : Dealing With Bipolar
Empathy And Personality Disorders What is Empathy??Normal people use a variety of abstract concepts and psychological constructs?to relate?to?other persons. Emotions are such modes of inter-relatedness. Narcissists and psychopaths are different. Their "equipment" is lacking. They understand only one language: self-interest.?Their inner dialog and private language revolve around the?constant measurement of utility. They regard...... Similar Editorial : On Empathy by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.. | Source : Dealing With Bipolar
