Sentences with phrase «narcissistic personality features»

Membership in a high desister group predicted internalizing symptoms, rule - breaking behaviors, and borderline and narcissistic personality features.

Not exact matches

Personally, I think there's ample evidence that Mann is character disordered, which is to say he's clearly got a narcissistic personality with what the shrinks might call «paranoid features.»

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).

However, if an individual has personality features that meet criteria for one or more personality disorders in addition to narcissistic personality disorder, all can be diagnosed.

Other personality disorders may be confused with narcissistic personality disorder because they have certain features in common.

Failure of parental empathy is a characterological feature of both narcissistic and borderline personalities.

Both personalities have an underlying «borderline» core of primal self - inadequacy and fear of abandonment (i.e., attachment expectations for self - and other - in - relationship), and both have narcissistic features of complete self - absorption.

However, the relationship dynamics involved with the pathogenic parenting of «parental alienation» processes are exceedingly similar across families, because they originate in the same type of parental psychopathology (a narcissistic personality disorder with borderline features that is decompensating into persecutory beliefs regarding the targeted / rejected parent's abuse potential relative to the child).

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

The essential feature of narcissistic personality disorder is a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy that begins by early adulthood and is present in a variety of contexts.

Today we'll cover the features of narcissistic personality disorder, plus 10 giveaways that you're dealing with a narcissist.