81. Personality Disorder Defined and inflexible, has an onset in adolescence or early adulthood, is stable over time, and leads to distress or impairment. personality disorders are pervasive http://www.nvo.com/psych_help/personalitydisorderdefined/

Caution! Visit Microsoft's Web site to obtain the newest version of Internet Explorer, or visit Visiting this web site without first upgrading your browser may result in unreliable behavior. Personality Disorder Defined PsychotherapyHELP Search WELCOME ... PsychotherapyHELP Home Dr. Paul Hannig THERAPY Deep Feeling Therapy Telephone Therapy Online Email Therapy The Love Program ... Power of Prayer FREE RESOURCES Feeling Therapy Articles FREE Articles FREE Manual Excerpts Questionnaires, Tools, Exercises, and Affirmations ... Web Links BEST SELLERS Mail Order Form Depression Secrets of Success - NEW! Dealing with Time Bandits ... The Power to Convince FOR YOU ... Daily Thoughts People Are Saying... MAILING LIST Subscribe to our Mailing List! THERAPY FORMS Initial Intake Form CONTACT US Contact Us! Paul J. Hannig, Ph.D. MFCC PsychotherapyHELP Find this page helpful? Then Send Page To a Friend What is a Personality Disorder? Paul J. Hannig, Ph.D., MFCC Personality disorders tend to be chronic with intermittent breakthroughs of the real self. These disorders are real mental disorders and the sufferer experiences above normal states of disturbed thinking and emotions. Mental disturbances are not as severe and intense as in psychosis, however, but they are testify to how much damage a person has suffered in childhood. A personality disorder is a hidden disorder. The person may appear to be quite calm, rational and even functional to the average observer. The personality disorder does not become evident until one becomes more involved in that person's life. As the repressed childhood damage begins to seep into intimate relationships, the transference and counter-transference phenomena becomes disturbingly evident. In my opinion for an intense personality disturbance to be formed, the victim has had to suffer some form of deprivation, neglect and abandonment from both father and mother. It's the combination and intensity of both parents’ disturbances that create the transference/counter-transference reaction in the personality disordered individual, as though the sins of the parents are visited upon their children. In essence, the personality disordered individual is programmed and scripted to eventually activate earlier disturbances within adult relationships.

82. Healing Narcissistic Personality Disorders Support community for narcissists and personal story of person sufering from NPD. http://wave.prohosting.com/healnpd/

Free Web Hosting Web Hosting - ProHosting.com - Sign Up! ... - ProHosting.com - Sign Up! "When I came to see from a place other than that pained consciousness, I knew that somehow I had to heal this narcissistic pain and complete my birth. I had to find out who I was beneath all the fear and confusion, to heal the mind into the heart, to find peace." ~Stephen Levine, 'Turning Toward the Mystery'. Last updated 4:25 AM 5/26/03 Diagnostic Criteria For Narcissistic Personality Disorder Journey into darkness: Viewing a narcissistic disturbance through the eyes of a NPDer New! Seeing the humanity in human beings suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder Last 5 Posts in Healing NPD Support Forum (Please note you must be registered to view some of these forums) Contact US for more information about healing Narcissism or disorders of the self. We are now entering another period of updates to this web site. We've learned a lesson and are not setting target dates for completion. Please pardon our dust and we look forward to working with you on your healing journey. View Guestbook Sign Guestbook Enter your Email be notifed of updates to this site:

83. Best Practice Medicine- Professional Reference - Personality personality disorders. Detailed recommendations in the Report, Be aware of the potential teratogenic effects of the agents used to treat personality disorders. http://merck.praxis.md/bpm/bpm.asp?page=BPM01PS10

84. Antisocial Personality Disorder Schizophrenia; Manic Episode; Narcissistic Personality Disorder; Histrionic Personality Disorder; Borderline personality disorders; Paranoid Personality http://www.psychologynet.org/apd.html

85. Paranoid Personality Disorder of physical handicaps; Schizotypal Personality Disorder; Schizoid Personality Disorder; Borderline and Histrionic personality disorders; Avoidant Personality http://www.psychologynet.org/parapd.html

86. HERMENAUT: Identiopathy This addition to the category of personality disorders is the product of the extensive research and clinical experience of the Task Force on DSMIV and the http://www.hermenaut.com/a165.shtml

Feedback Go to Wicked Pavilion FEATURE Carol Carbone Identiopathy Dear Colleagues: Yours, The Association 301.75 Identiopathic Personality Disorder Diagnostic Features The essential feature of Identiopathic Personality Disorder is a pervasive pattern of acute, inflexible mimetic attachment to an exaggerated and overly demonstrative identification of oneself with perceived subversive ideology. This pattern typically begins in early adulthood (though increasing reports of onset as early as age 10 are becoming significant) and persists well into the 30s and beyond, and is present in a variety of contexts. This pattern has also been referred to as Identiopathy, Subsociopathy, and Inverted Self-Aggrandizing Psychosis. Individuals with Identiopathic Personality Disorder tend to be more concerned with expressing impressions rather than ideas because of a fear that misinterpretation of the information they convey may be used against them. These individuals may use carefully regulated language and word choices to ensure consistency and avoid misinterpretation. Individuals with Identiopathic Personality Disorder are ever alert for, and intolerant of, views that are perceived to deviate from their "own" (Criterion 6). Any perceived deviation, whether it be through simple misunderstanding or difference of opinion, is believed to be untrustworthy and injurious, and reinforces the belief that the individual is in possession of the Ultimate Truth. They experience a compulsion to assert the wrongness of such deviations, often prefacing their tirades with a huff, hiss, gasp, or

87. BehaveNet® Clinical Capsule™: Personality Disorder Individuals with personality disorders often blame others for their problems. Other personality disorders depressive passiveaggressive self-defeating. http://www.behavenet.com/capsules/disorders/prsnltydsrdr.htm

BehaveNet Personality Disorder (APA DSM-IV DSM-IV-TR Axis II Everyone has a personality with character traits such as stinginess, generosity, arrogance and independence. But when these traits are rigid and self-defeating, they may interfere with functioning and even lead to psychiatric symptoms . Personality traits are formed by early adulthood, persist throughout life and affect every aspect of day to day behavior. Individuals with personality disorders often blame others for their problems. Although professionals identify distinct personality disorders (anti-social, borderline, schizotypal, et al), some personality disordered individuals may not fit in a particular category and yet may clearly deserve this label. Although classified as mental disorders they may be classified separately and distinguished from the Axis I Clinical Syndromes for some purposes. General diagnostic criteria for a Personality Disorder cautionary statement A. An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual's culture. This pattern is manifested in two (or more) of the following areas: cognition (i.e., ways of perceiving and interpreting self, other people, and events)

88. Narcissistic personality disorders are disorders of the entire matrix of the person and require operational attributes sampled from all important domains of personality. http://hometown.net/NAR.htm

Narcissistic Personality: Functional and Structural Domain Descriptions Because Personality Disorders are disorders of the entire matrix of the person, their assessment intrinsically requires operational attributes sampled from all important domains of personality. Behavioral Level: (F) Expressively Haughty (e.g., acts in an arrogant, supercilious, pompous, and disdainful manner, flouting conventional rules of shared social living, viewing them as naive or inapplicable to self; reveals a careless disregard for personal integrity and a self-important indifference to the rights of others). (F) Interpersonally Exploitive (e.g., feels entitled, is unempathic and expects special favors without assuming reciprocal responsibilities; shamelessly takes others for granted and uses them to enhance self and indulge desires). Phenomenological Level: (F) Cognitively Expansive (e.g., has an undisciplined imagination and exhibits a preoccupation with immature and self-glorifying fantasies of success, beauty or love; is minimally constrained by objective reality, takes liberties with facts and often lies to redeem self-illusions). (S) Admirable Self-Image (e.g., believes self to be meritorious, special, if not unique, deserving of great admiration, and acting in a grandiose or self-assured manner, often without commensurate achievements; has a sense of high self-worth, despite being seen by others as egotistic, inconsiderate, and arrogant).

89. Personality Disorders personality disorders. personality disorders differ from psychiatric illness in that they are enduring, stable, pervasive and inflexible http://www.hhb.infoxchange.net.au/hhb41.htm

[Previous Page] [Next Page] [Table of Contents/Search] Personality disorders Personality disorders differ from psychiatric illness in that they are enduring, stable, pervasive and inflexible traits established in adolescence or early adulthood and generally not amenable to formal psychiatric treatment. Without listing all the varieties of personality disorder, it can be said that one cluster includes the odd and eccentric, another the dramatic, emotional or erratic, and another the anxious or fearful. Such people often have many personal and marital problems, including suicidal ideas or a history of suicide attempts, and alcohol and substance abuse. Their history often shows a high use of psychiatric and social services. Many of these people, particularly those who are difficult to manage or who are seen as a 'nuisance' to services, may in the past have unfortunately been labelled as manipulative, attention seeking or personality disordered. This labelling often inhibits a full assessment of their physical, social and psychological needs, and so reduces their access to needed services. It may be better to describe to the health service the difficult behaviours presented by a person and what you perceive their needs to be. In this way some agreement may be negotiated with the service to elicit from your client the necessary acceptable behaviour, in exchange for required support and regular review. This protects these individuals as well as those services meeting their complex needs.

90. Bmj.com Collected Resources : Personality Disorders personality disorders. Citations 18 of 8 total displayed. Most recent content (27 Mar 2004) Papers Mental illness in people who http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/collection/personality_disorders

Home Help Search/Archive Feedback Collected Resources Personality disorders Citations 1-10 of 10 total displayed. Most recent content (29 May 2004): Education and debate Munchausen syndrome by proxy and sudden infant death A W Craft and D M B Hall BMJ 2004;328:1309-1312 , doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7451.1309 [Full text] [PDF] Papers Offending in psychiatric patients after discharge from medium secure units: prospective national cohort study A Maden, F Scott, R Burnett, G H Lewis, and P Skapinakis BMJ, doi:10.1136/bmj.38075.467569.EE (published 28 May 2004) [PDF] Past content (since Apr 2001): Papers Mental illness in people who kill strangers: longitudinal study and national clinical survey Jenny Shaw, Tim Amos, Isabelle M Hunt, Sandra Flynn, Pauline Turnbull, Navneet Kapur, and Louis Appleby BMJ 2004;328:734-737 , doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7442.734 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] News extra New mental health bill may conflict with advice from the GMC Zosia Kmietowicz BMJ 2002;325:678 , doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7366.678/b [Full text] News Mental health campaigners cancel march because of fears of backlash Zosia Kmietowicz BMJ 2002;325:562 , doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7364.562/b

91. Schizotypal Personality Disorder Study Recently there has been an increased interest in studying the neurobiology of personality disorders, and, in particular, schizotypal personaluity disorder (SPD http://splweb.bwh.harvard.edu:8000/pages/projects/schiz/projects/p_schiztypal.ht

Schizotypal Personality Disorder Study 3D reconstruction of the cortex and superior temporal gyrus, shown in red. Recently there has been an increased interest in studying the neurobiology of personality disorders, and, in particular, schizotypal personaluity disorder (SPD). SPD is characterised by cognitive or perceptual distortions, an inability to tolerate close friendships, and odd behavior, but not frank psychosis. Of particular importance to SPD is the concept of the "schizophrenia spectrum," a concept derived from evidence that persons with SPD and schizophrenia often share a common genetic diathesis and show similar, though not identical symptoms. A comparison of findings in SPD with those in schizophrenics may help to clarify what factors lead to psychosis. We have evaluated several regions of interest (ROI's) in subjects with SPD, including the superior temporal gyrus (STG), medial temporal lobe structures, and the prefrontal cortex. One important finding (as reported in Dickey et al., 1999) includes the reduction of left STG gray matter volume in SPD subjects when compared to normal controls. This finding supports the hypothesis of the importance of STG involvement in the schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Schizotypal Personality Disorder Publications: Dickey CC, McCarley RW, Voglmaier MM, Niznikiewicz MA, Seidman LJ, Frumin M, Toner S, Demeo S, Shenton ME.

92. Psych Central: Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment Borderline Personality Disorder. Like with all personality disorders, psychotherapy is the treatment of choice in helping people overcome this problem. http://psychcentral.com/disorders/sx10t.htm

home resource directory disorders quizzes ... support forums Borderline Personality Disorder TREATMENT Table of Contents Introduction Psychotherapy Hospitalization Medications ... Self-Help Introduction Borderline personality disorder is experienced in individuals in many different ways. Often, people with this disorder will find it more difficult to distinguish between reality from their own misperceptions of the world and their surrounding environment. While this may seem like a type of delusion disorder to some, it is actually related to their emotions overwhelming regular cognitive functioning. People with this disorder often see others in "black-and-white" terms. Depending upon the circumstances and situation, for instance, a therapist can be seen as being very helpful and caring toward the client. But if some sort of difficulty arises in the therapy, or in the patient's life, the person might then begin characterizing the therapist as "bad" and not caring about the client at all. Clinicians should always be aware of this "all-or-nothing" lability most often found in individuals with this disorder and be careful not to validate it. Therapists and doctors should learn to be a "rock" when dealing with a person who has this disorder. That is, the doctor should offer his or her stability to contrast the client's lability of emotion and thinking. Many professionals are turned-off by working with people with this disorder, because it draws on many negative feelings from the clinician. These occur because of the client's constant demands on a clinician, the constant suicidal gestures, thoughts, and behaviors, and the possibility of self-mutiliating behavior. These are sometimes very difficult items for a therapist to understand and work with.

93. Narcissistic Personality Disorder And The Serial Bully Links to Therapist Directories, Psychological Tests, Narcissistic personality disorders Resources, Support Groups, and Tutorials http//www.suite101.com/links http://www.bullyonline.org/workbully/npd.htm

Charm, arrogance, constant criticism, nit-picking, no empathy, devalued, dismissed? Read this Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the serial bully On this page Narcissistic Personality Disorder DSM-IV Diagnostic Criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder Related personality disorders Links to narcissism and narcissistic personality disoder sites On another page Attention seeking behaviour Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy (MSBP) The serial bully displays behaviour congruent with many of the diagnostic criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder . Characterised by a pervasive pattern of grandiosity and self-importance, need for admiration, and lack of empathy, people with narcissistic personality disorder overestimate their abilities and inflate their accomplishments, often appearing boastful and pretentious, whilst correspondingly underestimating and devaluing the achievements and accomplishments of others. Often the narcissist will fraudulently claim to have qualifications or experience or affiliations or associations which they don't have or aren't entitled to. Belief in superiority, inflating their self-esteem to match that of senior or important people with whom they associate or identify, insisting on having the "top" professionals or being affiliated with the "best" institutions, but criticising the same people who disappoint them are also common features of narcissistic personality disorder. When rejected, the narcissist will often denounce the profession which has rejected them (usually for lack of competence or misdeed) but simultaneously and paradoxically represent themselves as belonging to the profession they are vilifying.

94. Antisocial Personality Disorder And The Serial Bully bully. Links to related personality disorders follow. everything? personality disorders related to Antisocial Personality Disorder. http://www.bullyonline.org/workbully/apd.htm

Constant criticism, nit-picking, no empathy, control freak, charm, manipulation, intimidation? Read this Antisocial Personality Disorder and the serial bully I estimate that around 1 person in 30 (approximately 2 million) in the UK exhibits the profile of the serial bully whose behaviour is congruent with many of the diagnostic criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder . Some serial bullies meet sufficient clinical criteria to merit the label psychopath. Although mental health professionals are not all in agreement, the emphasis of antisocial personality disorder is, as the name implies, on the antisocial acts committed by the individual. Psychopaths, on the other hand, are diagnosed more according to personality traits, eg lack of remorse, lack of guilt, lack of conscience, etc. Whilst many psychopaths meet the diagnostic criteria for antisocial personality disorder, not all do; similarly, not all people with antisocial personality disorder meet the criteria for a psychopath. I use the term psychopath for an individual with many of the characteristics of Antisocial Personality Disorder who is dysfunctional and violent and who expresses their violence physically (eg assault, damage to property, etc); I use the term

95. Personality Disorders MAIN SEARCH INDEX. personality disorders. personality disorders have their onset in late adolescence or early adulthood. Doctors rarely http://www.ehendrick.org/healthy/001050.htm

MAIN SEARCH INDEX Personality disorders Definition Description Causes and symptoms Diagnosis ... Resources Definition Personality disorders are a group of mental disturbances defined by the fourth (1994) edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV ) as "enduring pattern[s] of inner experience and behavior" that are sufficiently rigid and deep-seated to bring a person into repeated conflicts with his or her social and occupational environment. DSM-IV specifies that these dysfunctional patterns must be regarded as non-conforming or deviant by the person's culture, and cause significant emotional pain and/or difficulties in relationships and occupational performance. In addition, the patient usually sees the disorder as being consistent with his or her self image (ego-syntonic) and may blame others. Description To meet the diagnosis of personality disorder, which is sometimes called character disorder, the patient's problematic behaviors must appear in two or more of the following areas: perception and interpretation of the self and other people intensity and duration of feelings and their appropriateness to situations relationships with others ability to control impulses Personality disorders have their onset in late adolescence or early adulthood. Doctors rarely give a diagnosis of personality disorder to children on the grounds that children's personalities are still in the process of formation and may change considerably by the time they are in their late teens. But, in retrospect, many individuals with personality disorders could be judged to have shown evidence of the problems in childhood.

96. Narcissistic Personality Disorder At A Glance NPD as a personality disorder that fits none of the specific rubrics. It relegates it to the category Other Specific personality disorders together with http://samvak.tripod.com/npdglance.html

Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) At a Glance Narcissism, Pathological Narcissism, The Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD), the Narcissist, and Relationships with Abusive Narcissists and Psychopaths By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" Malignant Self Love - Buy the Book - Click HERE!!! Relationships with Abusive Narcissists - Buy the e-Books - Click HERE!!! The Web Sam Vaknin Sites READ THIS: Scroll down to review a complete list of the articles - Click on the blue-coloured text! To join the Narcissism list, use this form: Subscribe to narcissisticabuse Powered by groups.yahoo.com What is Narcissism? 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. Most narcissists (50-75%, according to the DSM IV-TR) are men. The Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is one of a "family" of personality disorders (known as "Cluster B"). Other members of Cluster B are Borderline PD, Antisocial PD and Histrionic PD.

97. Personality Disorders: A Factsheet From The Mental Health Foundation Factsheet on personality disorders information from the Mental Health Foundation. http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/page.cfm?pagecode=PMNZPD

98. Mind > Information > Booklets > Understanding > Understanding Borderline Persona BPD is one of many personality disorders listed in the manuals used by clinicians when they are giving someone a psychiatric diagnosis. http://www.mind.org.uk/Information/Booklets/Understanding/Understanding borderli

What's new Low graphics view Site map Home ... Shopping Understanding borderline personality disorder This booklet can also be viewed as a non-printable  pdf file  or purchased from the  online shop What is borderline personality disorder? How would a clinician make this diagnosis? What if they’ve made a mistake in my diagnosis? ... Further reading ‘I wish I had never been diagnosed with BPD. With another diagnosis yet similar behaviour I was treated so differently. Possibly the most painful part of this illness (I will call it that) is the discrimination. And the only reason for this is the diagnosis, not the way I feel, behave or speak, because that was the same before.’ Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a controversial diagnosis. This booklet aims to help people to understand when the diagnosis might be given and its consequences. It suggests sources of help for those diagnosed with this problem, their friends and relatives. What is borderline personality disorder? BPD is one of many personality disorders listed in the manuals used by clinicians when they are giving someone a psychiatric diagnosis. The word 'personality' refers to the ongoing pattern of thoughts, feelings and behaviour that makes us who we are. A personality disorder may be diagnosed when it's felt that several areas of someone's personality are causing them or others problems in everyday life. This diagnosis is very controversial, because it implies that someone's whole personality is flawed - rather than just one aspect of them. Some psychiatrists argue that it's impossible to treat someone's personality and that it's wrong to apply medical terms and treatments to a personality. This means it’s usually the symptoms of BPD that are treated, rather than the disorder as a whole. (SeeÂ

99. Mind > Information > Booklets > Understanding > Understanding Personality Disord personality disorders usually become noticeable in adolescence or early adulthood, but sometimes start in childhood. Are personality disorders treatable? http://www.mind.org.uk/Information/Booklets/Understanding/Understanding personal

What's new Low graphics view Site map Home ... Shopping Understanding personality disorder This booklet can also be viewed as a non-printable  pdf file  and purchased from the  online shop What is personality disorder? What are the different types? What are the problems diagnosing it? ... Further reading This booklet is for anyone who wants to know about personality disorder, including those diagnosed, their family, friends and professional health workers. It is one of the most controversial of all psychiatric diagnoses, but it does not include multiple personality disorder, which is a dissociative disorder, covered in a separate booklet. What is personality disorder? The word ‘personality’ refers to the pattern of thoughts, feelings and behaviour that makes each of us individual. We tend to behave in fairly predictable ways, yet our personalities also develop and change as our circumstances change. Usually, people are flexible enough to be able to learn from past experiences and to change their behaviour to cope with life more effectively, but someone who has a personality disorder is likely to be quite inflexible. Their range of attitudes and behaviours is limited, and likely to be very different from what others might expect from their background and culture. Their attitudes and ways of behaving often cause distress to them and to others. Personality disorders usually become noticeable in adolescence or early adulthood, but sometimes start in childhood. They make it difficult for someone to develop friendships, maintain a stable relationship and to work cooperatively with others, because their experience, responses and coping strategies are so limited. Not surprisingly, they can feel very alienated and alone and, unfortunately, the risk of suicide is about three times higher than average. (See Mind’s bookletÂ

100. Personality & Consciousness personality theories, processes and disorders. Maslow, Freud, Jung, Adler, Rogers, Skinner. Quotations, descriptions of work, links. http://www.wynja.com/personality/

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