personality disorders
personality disorders
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by Bryan Knight - 2007-02-27
Those Troublesome ClientsEvery therapist has experienced the frustration of dealing with difficult clients. Nothing seems to work. Both client and therapist despair. Often such troubling clients are l...
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by Sam Vaknin - 2007-04-12
Personality disorders are not only all-pervasive, but also diffuse and shape-shifting. It is taxing and emotionally harrowing to watch how a loved one is consumed by these pernicious and largely incur...
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by Sam Vaknin - 2007-04-12
Notes of first therapy session with Ani Korban, male, 46, diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder (AsPD), or Psychopathy and SociopathyAni was referred to therapy by the court, as part of a reh...
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by Sam Vaknin - 2007-04-12
Notes of first therapy session with Dale G., male, 46, diagnosed with Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD)Dale's first enquiry is whether I am in any way associated either with the government or with h...
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by Sam Vaknin - 2007-04-12
Introduction to PsychosisPsychosis is chaotic thinking that is the result of a severely impaired reality test ( the patient cannot tell inner fantasy from outside reality). Some psychotic states are s...
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by Sam Vaknin - 2007-04-12
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 ...
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by Sam Vaknin - 2007-06-28
Interview granted to Elizabeth Svoboda of Psychology TodayQ. Once you became an adult, how did your relationship with your parents change? What are some of the unique difficulties of being an adult ch...
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by Sam Vaknin - 2007-07-01
Three traits conspire to render the narcissist a failure and a loser: his sense of entitlement, his haughtiness and innate conviction of his own superiority, and his aversion to routine.The narcissist...
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by Lyla Feldman - 2008-07-16
Bipolar disorder affects more people than you think. Almost 1 out of every 100 adults has been diagnosed with this manic personality disorder. One of my closest family members has been treated fo...
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by Christina Sponias-22752 - 2008-09-10
Dreams about the person you love are very clear, even though most dreams are not comprehensible to your conscience. The unconscious mind that produces your dreams uses a symbolic language in order to ...
