Narcissism is only considered a pathological phenomenon if the condition has a negative impact on the patient and if he or she develops
symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder.
Not exact matches
Posts about signs you're dating a loser written by psychopathyawareness On the higher end
of the
narcissistic spectrum lies Antisocial
Personality Disorder; a disorder that carries with it the
symptoms of narcissism along with
With this book, you will be able to learn about the following: Understand the signs and
symptoms of a person suffering from
narcissistic personality disorder.
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).
Self - report data is notoriously unreliable, and a
symptom of narcissism is delusional thought processes so the data self - reported by the narcissist would likely be at odds with the reality, and no other students would be able to determine if another person had DSM IV
narcissistic personality disorder in a five minute interaction.
This set
of three
symptoms in the child's
symptom display represent definitive diagnostic indicators
of the distorting influence on the child
of pathogenic parenting practices by a
narcissistic / (borderline) parent that are inducing severe developmental,
personality, and psychiatric
symptoms in the child.
There is NO OTHER EXPLANATION possible for the presence in the child's
symptom display
of this disparate set
of a-priori predicted specific
symptoms other than the pathogenic parenting
of a
narcissistic / (borderline) parent, in which the child acquires and expresses the psychological state
of the
narcissistic / (borderline) parent, hence the presence in the child's
symptom display
of narcissistic and borderline
personality traits.
Second, the effort to excuse and justify the child's atrocious behavior is a direct and evident
symptom of the
narcissistic / (borderline)
personality processes and attitudes
of the allied and supposedly «favored» parent that are being transferred to the child through the aberrant and distorted parenting practices
of the
narcissistic / (borderline) parent.
As part
of this discussion, I will also elaborate on the equivalence
of narcissistic and borderline
personality organizations at the attachment level, and the key role
of splitting in the
symptom manifestation
of «parental alienation» within an attachment - based framework
of the construct (i.e., as the child's cross-generational coalition with a
narcissistic / (borderline) parent).
The child's
symptom display directed toward the targeted parent represents a set
of specific
narcissistic and borderline
personality traits that are being acquired by the child through the distorted pathogenic parenting practices
of the allied and supposedly favored parent.
For example, male batterers are more likely than non-batterers to exhibit
symptoms of diminished mental health, as well as a variety
of severe clinical disorders ranging from major depression and anxiety to
personality disorders (e.g., antisocial, borderline,
narcissistic).
This «psychological fingerprint» evidence in the child's
symptom display represents Diagnostic Indicator 2 for an attachment - based model
of «parental alienation,» i.e., the presence
of five specific a-priori predicted
narcissistic / (borderline)
personality traits in THE CHILD»S
symptom display (I'll defer discussion
of the anxiety variant).
The source for this child
symptom set is the
narcissistic / (borderline)
personality pathology
of the parent that is creating the pathology
of attachment - based «parental alienation» as expressed by the child.