Sentences with phrase «characteristic of narcissistic personality»

«The pathological grandiose self compensates for the general «ego - weakening» effects of the primitive defensive organization, a common characteristic of narcissistic personalities and patients with borderline personality organization, and explains the fact that narcissistic personalities may present an overt functioning that ranges from the borderline level to that of better integrated types of character pathology.»

Not exact matches

Some of the proposed «new symptoms» are symptom features of other established forms of pathology (absence of ambivalence is «splitting» and lack of guilt is an absence of empathy, both symptoms are characteristic of narcissistic and borderline personality pathology), and some of the «new symptoms» are simply bizarre (the «independent thinker» symptom).

This is an imperative imposed by the neurological networks of the narcissistic / (borderline) brain, i.e., by the splitting dynamic characteristic of both narcissistic and borderline personalities.

Failure to possess the requisite professional knowledge, training, and expertise in attachment theory, personality disorder processes (particularly narcissistic an borderline personality dynamics and their characteristic decompensation under stress), and in family systems constructs (particularly centering on the child's triangulation into the spousal conflict through a cross-generational parent - child coalition against the other parent) which is necessary for competent professional diagnosis and treatment with this «special population» of children and families may represent practice beyond the boundaries of professional competence in violation of professional practice standards.

It is IMPERATIVE that ALL mental health professionals, all child custody evaluators and all therapists, who are involved in diagnosing and treating this «special population» of children and families have a professional level of expertise regarding the nature, dynamics, and presentation of personality disorder processes, particularly narcissistic and borderline personality development and characteristics.

This child presentation is classically characteristic of narcissistic / borderline personality processes, and it is entirely inconsistent with the authentic functioning of the attachment system.

Central to the psychological processes of narcissistic and borderline personalities is the characteristic of «splitting,» which is a polarized perception of events and people into extremes of all - good, ideal, and wonderful or all - bad, entirely devalued, and demonized.

Both the narcissistic and borderline personality display spitting as a characteristic feature of their personalities.

Q: How does a child acquire this specific set of narcissistic / (borderline) personality characteristics that are being expressed selectively just toward the targeted - rejected parent?

Mental health professionals working with this «special population» of children and families require specialized professional knowledge, training, and expertise related to narcissistic and borderline personality characteristics and dynamics so that they may be alert for the profound distortions of truth and reality associated with narcissistic / borderline personality processes.