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  Morten Hesse, Sanna Schliewe and Rasmus R Thomsen BMC Psychiatry20055:45 https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-5-45 ©  Hesse et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2005 Received: 21 June 2005 Accepted: 08 December 2005 Published: 08 December 2005 Abstract Background Tools for training professionals in rating personality disorders are few. We present one such tool: rating of fictional persons. However, before ratings of fictional persons can be useful, we need to know whether raters get the same results, when rating fictional characters. Method Psychology students at the University of Copenhagen (N = 8) rated four different…

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Personality Disorders Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Introduction Borderline Personality Disorder is a serious condition which is estimated to affect between 1-3% of the general population. Yet, despite being so prevalent, BPD is not commonly known about or understood. People who live in a relationship with a person who suffers from borderline personality disorder often know that something is terribly wrong with the behavior of their family member or loved-one but often do not know what to do about it, or…

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DSM-5 The Ten Personality Disorders: Cluster C Simone Hoermann, Ph.D., Corinne E. Zupanick, Psy.D. & Mark Dombeck, Ph.D. Cluster C is called the anxious, fearful cluster.  It includes the Avoidant, Dependent, and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorders.  These three personality disorders share a high level of anxiety. The Avoidant Personality Disorder* is characterized by a pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and a hypersensitivity to negative evaluation. People with this disorder are intensely afraid that others will ridicule them, reject…

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    Narcissism is a spectrum disorder. We all have a degree of narcissism and that’s healthy, but the fur- ther up the spectrum we go the more problems are encountered. And at the top end is full-blown Narcissistic Personality Disorder or NPD which includes: a significant degree of empathy impairment a grandiosity – hidden or otherwise, being preoccupied with fantasies about success, power and beauty having a sense of entitlement and behaving in an arrogant or haughty manner exploitation…

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Borderline Personality Disorder: The Power of Recovery Those of us with BPD really do get better.  posted Sep 15, 2013 This post is in response to If BPD is Biologically Based, What Then? by Margalis Fjelstad Source: I found some of the assumptions that Dr. Fjelstad makes about people who have been diagnosed with BPD — and I take exception to the use of the term “Borderline” to describe us because the diagnosis is not our identity — outrageous and…

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  With a new book called The Narcissism Epidemic, the first and most obvious question is, “How do you know there’s an epidemic?” The evidence comes in two forms: Changes among individuals, and changes in the culture. Josh Foster (of the University of South Alabama) and I are releasing a study today showing that narcissistic traits are increasing even faster than we previously thought. From 2002 to 2007, college students’ scores on the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) rose twice as…

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