ALLMedicine™ Narcissistic Personality Disorder Center

Mar 19th, 2023 - In offending populations, prevalence rates of mental disorders are much higher than in the general population. Nevertheless, it is unclear whether mental disorders can improve the prediction of recidivism beyond actuarial risk assessment tools. Th...

Feb 28th, 2023 - We critique the general state of methodological rigor in contemporary personality pathology research, focusing on challenges in study design, assessment, and data analysis resulting from two pervasive problems: comorbidity and heterogeneity. To in...

Dec 9th, 2022 - Borderline personality disorder and broadly speaking, borderline personality organization, including narcissistic personality disorder, can be effectively treated by transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP), which is a modern object relations-base...

Oct 30th, 2022 - Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and the manic and hypomanic episodes found in the bipolar disorders are characterized by grandiosity. It is possible that this shared grandiosity is a 'homologous structure' or reflects a superficial similar...

Oct 13th, 2022 - Otto F. Kernberg pioneered the description, understanding, and treatment of pathological narcissism. Narcissism has emerged as a clinical construct of considerable interest in clinical psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis and has often been ...

Jan 10th, 2020 - Although narcissism is commonly discussed in various popular culture contexts and news outlets, the psychiatric concerns related to it can be serious. In the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,...

Jan 10th, 2020 - Although narcissism is commonly discussed in various popular culture contexts and news outlets, the psychiatric concerns related to it can be serious. In the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,...

Jan 10th, 2020 - Personality disorders are generally grouped into three clusters. Individuals can be diagnosed with more than one personality disorder, often from the same cluster. Narcissistic personality disorder is a cluster B disorder and must be distinguished...

Aug 1st, 2019 - Narcissism has an evil reputation. But is it justified? A modicum of narcissism is actually healthy.

Jul 1st, 2019 - Ask a psychiatrist to name a psychotic disorder, and the answer will most likely be “schizophrenia. ” But if you closely examine the symptom structure of DSM-5 psychiatric disorders, you will note the presence of psychosis in almost all of them.

Nov 15th, 2022 - Diagnosis Some features of narcissistic personality disorder are like those of other personality disorders. Also, it's possible to be diagnosed with more than one personality disorder at the same time. This can make diagnosis more challenging. Dia...

Nov 15th, 2022 - Overview Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental health condition in which people have an unreasonably high sense of their own importance. They need and seek too much attention and want people to admire them. People with this disorder may la...

Nov 30th, 2020 - Overview What is dependent personality disorder (DPD)? Mental health experts describe personality as a person’s way of thinking, feeling and behaving. A personality disorder affects the way people think or act, making them behave differently over ...

Jun 19th, 2020 - Overview What is a narcissist? A narcissist is a common catchphrase describing someone who acts self-absorbed or vain. What many people don’t know is that narcissism, or narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), is actually a serious condition. If ...

ew Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental health condition in which people have an unreasonably high sense of their own importance. They need and seek too much attention and want people to admire them. People with this disorder may lack the...