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Month: February 2018

The Relationship of Personality to Eating Disorders

The Relationship of Personality to Eating Disorders

  Mohammad Ali Besharat, PhD1   1 Department of Psychology, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran   Corresponding author: Mohammad Ali Besharat, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Tehran. P. O. Box 14155-6456, Tehran, Iran; e-mail: besharat@ut.ac.ir This paper highlights a variety of personality disorders in individuals with eating disorder and also emphasizes the importance of identifying clinically meaningful eating disorders subtypes based on concurrent personality disorder. The relationship between personality disorders and eating disorders is an important issue as this…

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Borderline Personality Disorder: A Mental Disorder or the Medicalization of Social Undesirability?

Borderline Personality Disorder: A Mental Disorder or the Medicalization of Social Undesirability?

Western Undergraduate Psychology Journal 2014 Nicole Barich Western Univeristy, nbarich@uwo.ca Follow this and additional works at: http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/wupj Part of the Psychology Commons Recommended Citation Barich, Nicole (2014) “Borderline Personality Disorder: A Mental Disorder or the Medicalization of Social Undesirability?,” Western Undergraduate Psychology Journal: Vol. 2: Iss. 1, Article 1. Available at: http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/wupj/vol2/iss1/1 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship@Western. It has been accepted   *Initially submitted for Health Sciences 4620F/G at the University of…

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Lack of empathy in patients with narcissistic personality disorder

Lack of empathy in patients with narcissistic personality disorder

Psychiatry Research 187 (2011) 241–247   Kathrin Ritter a,⁎, Isabel Dziobek b,e,f, Sandra Preißler a, Anke Rüter a, Aline Vater a, Thomas Fydrich c, Claas-Hinrich Lammers d, Hauke R. Heekeren b,e,f, Stefan Roepke a,e,⁎ a Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Department of Psychiatry, Berlin, Germany b Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development, Neurocognition of Decision Making Group, Berlin, Germany c Humboldt University Berlin, Institute of Psychology, Berlin, Germany d Asklepios Clinic North — Ochsenzoll, Hamburg, Germany e Cluster of Excellence…

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The Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Personality Disorders

The Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Personality Disorders

Psychiatr Clin North Am. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2011 Sep 1. Published in final edited form as: Psychiatr Clin North Am. 2010 Sep; 33(3): 657–685. doi:  10.1016/j.psc.2010.04.007 PMCID: PMC3138327 NIHMSID: NIHMS297280 Alexis K. Matusiewicz, BA,a,b Christopher J. Hopwood, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology,c Annie N. Banducci, BA,a,b and C.W. Lejuez, PhD, Director, Professor of Psychologyd,e Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available at Psychiatr Clin North Am See…

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Living with Borderline Personality Disorder

Living with Borderline Personality Disorder

By Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. ~ 11 min read Receiving a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) may seem devastating. There’s a lot of confusion about what BPD really means and how it’s actually treated. Along with misunderstanding, there’s also stigma. This can make a person feel even more alone. However, BPD actually affects about two percent of the population. That’s more people than have bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. And there’s good news: Borderline personality disorder is treatable and recovery is…

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A useful tool (For those who have young children, or others also)

A useful tool (For those who have young children, or others also)

This is a re-post of a tool I found interesting some time back (Around august two years ago) it’s still valid and still useful.

Relationship with authority in narcissism

Relationship with authority in narcissism

International Journal of Psychology: SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS   Biopsychosocial Approach 2016 / 19                          ISSN 1941-7233 (Print), ISSN 2345-024X (Online) http://dx.doi.org/10.7220/2345-024X.19.4     Dovilė Petronytė-Kvedarauskienė1, Gražina Gudaitė Vilnius University, Lithuania   Abstract. Background. Relationship with authority is a significant social as well as psycho- logical factor which was destructively influenced by the Soviet authoritarian regime. In Western cultures, authority is often neglected while stressing the importance of an individual, and that leads to narcissistic problems. Though relevance of the issue of relationship…

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Pathological Lying Revisited

Pathological Lying Revisited

Charles C. Dike, Madelon Baranoski and Ezra E. H. Griffith Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online September 2005, 33 (3) 342-349; Abstract Although pathological lying was first described in the medical literature over 100 years ago, it remains a poorly understood concept. Psychiatrists continue to grapple with the full ramifications of the condition, even though interest specifically in pathological lying seems to have waned in recent times. The impact of pathological lying deserves critical attention…

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Empathy in Narcissistic Personality Disorder: From Clinical and Empirical Perspectives

Empathy in Narcissistic Personality Disorder: From Clinical and Empirical Perspectives

Personal Disord. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2015 Apr 30. Published in final edited form as: Personal Disord. 2014 Jul; 5(3): 323–333. Published online 2014 Feb 10. doi:  10.1037/per0000061 PMCID: PMC4415495 NIHMSID: NIHMS683605 Arielle Baskin-Sommers, Elizabeth Krusemark, and Elsa Ronningstam Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available at Personal Disord See other articles in PMC that cite the published article. Abstract Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is associated with an…

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Intersect between self-esteem and emotion regulation in narcissistic personality disorder – implications for alliance building and treatment

Intersect between self-esteem and emotion regulation in narcissistic personality disorder – implications for alliance building and treatment

Ronningstam Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation (2017) 4:3 DOI 10.1186/s40479-017-0054-8 Elsa Ronningstam1,2   Background Patients with pathological narcissism or narcissistic personality disorder, NPD, are difficult to engage in treatment and tend to drop out early. Building an alliance with these patients can be a tenuous and challenging endeavor. Nevertheless, a collaborative alliance is necessary for treatment to be working and changes  to occur,  independently  of treatment modality [1–3]. Disagreements and disruptions are common and can readily lead to stalemates…

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