Mental health

Eating Disorders and Personality Disorders

Patients suffering from eating disorders binge on food and sometimes are both Anorectic and Bulimic. This is an impulsive behaviour as defined by the DSM (particularly in the case of BPD and to a lesser extent of Cluster B disorders in general). Some patients adopt these disorders as their way of se...

Narcissistic Personality Disorder at a Glance

MORE DATA ABOUT PATHOLOGICAL NARCISSISM Most narcissists (75%) are men. NPD (=the Narcissistic Personality Disorder) is one of a "family" of personality disorders (formerly known as "Cluster B"). Other members: Borderline PD, Antisocial PD and Histrionic PD. NPD is often diagnosed with other men ......

Narcissistic Personality Disorder - Society and Emotions

XIV. Narcissism - Cultural Considerations The ethnopsychologist George Devereux ("Basic Problems of Ethnopsychiatry", University of Chicago Press, 1980) suggested to divide the unconscious into the id (the part that was always instinctual and unconscious) and the "ethnic unconscious" (repressed ......

Narcissistic Personality Disorder - The Family and Upbringing

IX. The Issue of Separation and Individuation It is by no means universally accepted that children go through a phase of separation from their parents and through the consequent individuation. Most psychodynamic theories (especially Klein, Mahler) are virtually constructed upon this foundation. The ...

Narcissistic Personality Disorder - Formative Years

II. PATHOLOGICAL NARCISSISM - SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT The common view is that we go through the stages of a linear development. We are propelled forward by forces. Various psychoanalytic and psychodynamic models incorporate the libido (force of life) and Thanatos (force of death) in Freud's thinking, Me ...

Narcissistic Personality Disorder - Schools of Thought

VI. Narcissism - Freud versus Jung Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is credited with the promulgation and presentation of a first coherent theory of narcissism. He described transitions from subject-directed libido to object-directed libido through the intermediation and agency of the parents. To be health...

Narcissistic Personality Disorder - An Introduction

NARCISSISM (n. sing.) A pattern of traits and behaviours which signify infatuation and obsession with one's self to the exclusion of all others and the egotistic and ruthless pursuit of one's gratification, dominance and ambition. Narcissism is named after the ancient Greek myth of Narcissus who w ....

Empathy comes naturally to children

CHICAGO - When children see others in pain, their brains respond as if it were happening to them, U.S. researchers said on Friday. This response, which also has been shown in adults, suggests that normal school-age children may be naturally prone to empathy, they said. "What it shows us is that we ...