Psychotherapy As Storytelling Storytelling has been with us since the days of campfire and besieging wild animals. It served a number of important functions: amelioration of fears, communication of vital information (regarding survival tactics and the characteristics of animals, for instance), the satisfaction of a sense of order (justice), the development of the ability to hypothesize, predict and introduce theories and so on...... Source : Human Psychology
Narcissist Vs. Psychopath We all heard the terms "psychopath" or "sociopath". These are the old names for a patient with the Antisocial Personality Disorder (AsPD). It is hard to distinguish narcissists from psychopaths. The latter may simply be a less inhibited and less grandiose form of the former. Indeed, the DSM V Committee is considering to abolish this distinction altogether. Still, there are some important nuances...... Similar Editorial : by Sam Vaknin. | Source : Attention Deficit Disorder Children
The Psychopath And Antisocial Roots of the Disorder Are the psychopath, sociopath, and someone with the Antisocial Personality Disorder one and the same? The DSM says "yes". Scholars such as Robert Hare and Theodore Millon beg to differ. The psychopath has antisocial traits for sure but they are coupled with and enhanced by callousness, ruthlessness, extreme lack of empathy, deficient impulse control, deceitfulness, and...... Similar Editorial : by Juliet Cohen. | Source : Attention Deficit Disorder Children
Psychological Tests Personality assessment is perhaps more an art form than a science. In an attempt to render it as objective and standardized as possible, generations of clinicians came up with psychological tests and structured interviews. These are administered under similar conditions and use identical stimuli to elicit information from respondents. Thus, any disparity in the responses of the subjects can and is...... Similar Editorial : by Josh George. | Source : Attention Deficit Disorder Children
Eclectic Psychotherapy The early days of the emerging discipline of psychology were inevitably rigidly dogmatic. Clinicians belonged to well-demarcated schools and practiced in strict accordance with canons of writings by "masters" such as Freud, or Jung, or Adler, or Skinner. Psychology was less a science than an ideology or an art form. Freud's work, for instance, though incredibly insightful, is closer to literature...... Source : Attention Deficit Disorder Children
The Hateful Patient - Difficult Patients In Psychotherapy In 1978, a?medical doctor?by the name of J.E. Groves published in the prestigious?New England Journal of Medicine an article titled "Taking Care of the Hateful Patient". In it he admitted that patients with personality disorders often evoke in their physicians dislike or even outright hatred. ?Groves described four types of such undesirable patients: "dependent clingers" (codependents), "entitled...... Similar Editorial : by Kavita. | Source : Attention Deficit Disorder Children
Psychosis, Delusions, And Personality Disorders Introduction to Psychosis?Psychosis 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 short-lived and transient (microepisodes). These last from a few hours to a few days and are sometimes reactions to stress. Psychotic microepisodes are common in certain personality disorders, most...... Source : Attention Deficit Disorder Children
The Psychopathic Patient - A Case Study Notes of first therapy session with?Ani Korban, male, 46, diagnosed with?Antisocial Personality Disorder (AsPD), or Psychopathy and Sociopathy?Ani was referred to therapy by the court, as part of a rehabilitation program. He is serving time in prison, having been convicted of grand fraud. The scam perpetrated by him involved hundreds of retired men and women in a dozen states over a period of...... Similar Editorial : by Sam Vaknin. | Source : Attention Deficit Disorder Children
Metaphors Of The Mind The brain (and, by implication, the mind) have been compared to the latest technological innovation in every generation. The computer metaphor is now in vogue. Computer hardware metaphors were replaced by software metaphors and, lately, by (neuronal) network metaphors.Metaphors are not confined to the philosophy of neurology. Architects and mathematicians, for instance, have lately come up with...... Similar Editorial : by Terry Nicholls. | Source : Bipolar Ii
Long-term Memory Creation The latest research from Harvard University, happens to be related to my up coming book related to memory and learning, "Memori & Pembelajaran Efektif (ISBN 979-543-723-2)" (published in Bahasa Indonesia).Creating Long-Term Memory (LTM) related to chemically altering the brain. For the very first time, neuroscientist at Harvard University were recently able to observe new protein being synthesized...... Similar Editorial : by Willard Michlin. | Source : Bipolar Disability
More On Long-term Memory Creation When we study about memory in organism, we can use different point of view. We can study the memory using the cognitive psychology, cognitive neurology or any other standpoints. From the perspective of cognitive psychology, at least we can group memory in three categories, sensory register, Short-Term Memory (STM) and Long-Term Memory (LTM). After perceived by one of the senses, a stimulus then...... Similar Editorial : by Peter Kenny. | Source : Bipolar Disability
What Is Personality? In their opus magnum "Personality Disorders in Modern Life", Theodore Millon and Roger Davis define personality as: "(A) complex pattern of deeply embedded psychological characteristics that are expressed automatically in almost every area of psychological functioning." (p. 2) The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)) IV-TR (2000), published by the American Psychiatric Association, defines...... Similar Editorial : by Jeff Earlywine. | Source : Bipolar Disability
Narcissism And Personality Disorders During our formative years (6 months to 6 years old), we are all "narcissists". Primary Narcissism is a useful and critically important defense mechanism. As the infant separates from his mother and becomes an individual, it is likely to experience great apprehension, fear, and pain. Narcissism shields the child from these negative emotions. By pretending to be omnipotent, the toddler fends off...... Similar Editorial : by Sam Vaknin. | Source : Bipolar Disability
The Construct Of Normal Personality Personality disorders are dysfunctions of our whole identity, tears in the fabric of who we are. They are all-pervasive because our personality is ubiquitous and permeates each and every one of our mental cells. I just published the first article in this topic titled "What is Personality?". Read it to understand the subtle differences between "personality", "character", and "temperament". In the...... Similar Editorial : by viper58. | Source : Bipolar Disability
Cluster B Personality Disorders The DSM-IV-TR (2000) defines a personality disorder as: "An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations the individuals culture (and is manifested in two or more of his or her areas of mental life:) cognition, affectivity, interpersonal functioning, or impulse control." Such a pattern is rigid, long-term (stable), and recurrent. It manifests...... Similar Editorial : by Sam Vaknin. | Source : Bipolar Disability
