Factor Models of Personality
by Sam Vaknin.The Five Factor Model deals with the healthy, normal personality. Not so other factor models. In 1990, Clark and a group of researchers constructed an instrument with 21 dimensions, based on the criteria of personality disorders in the DSM-III, on va...
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Not Otherwise Specified (NOS) Personality Disorder
by Sam Vaknin.It is a sign of the inadequacy of our current knowledge of personality disorders that both the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) and its international counterpart, the ICD, maintain a "Personality Disorders Not Otherwise Specified (NOS...
Genetics and Personality Disorders
by Sam Vaknin.To identify the role of heredity, researchers have resorted to a few tactics: they studied the occurrence of similar psychopathologies in identical twins separated at birth, in twins and siblings who grew up in the same environment, and in relatives ...
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Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD)
by Sam Vaknin.People with the Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) are concerned (worried and anxious) about maintaining control and about being seen to be maintaining it. In other words, they are also preoccupied with the symbolic aspects and represen...
Sex and Personality Disorders
by Sam Vaknin.Our sexual behavior expresses not only our psychosexual makeup but also the entirety of our personality. Sex is the one realm of conduct which involves the full gamut of emotions, cognitions, socialization, traits, heredity, and learned and acquired ...
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Empathy and Personality Disorders
by Sam Vaknin.What is Empathy??Normal people use a variety of abstract concepts and psychological constructs?to relate?to?other persons. Emotions are such modes of inter-relatedness. Narcissists and psychopaths are different. Their "equipment" is lacking. They und...
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The Word: Personality
by Pedro Gondim.Life is a learning experience. The complexity of human behaviour is finely related to the several mechanisms which define how, what and when we learn about the world. People devote varied levels of energy to observe, memorise and recount the ongoing ...
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The Four Moods of Bipolar Disorder
by Jane Mountain, MD.Has someone told you that you have bipolar disorder or manic-depression? Have you been wondering what having bipolar disorder really means? This article will help you make sense out of what you or a loved one is experiencing.Bipolar disorder is a moo...
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About Bipolar II Disorder
by Li Ming Wong.Bipolar disorder is also known as manic depressive disorder. It is a mental illness that presents itself as mood swings or mood cycling. Many people do not realize that there are actually two types of bipolar disorder. Bipolar I disorder is typica...
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What are the Causes of Bipolar Disorder?
by Li Ming Wong.Bipolar disorder is a difficult illness to manage and to treat. Many who have it may ask themselves, "Why me? What caused all this?" There are great disagreements as to the causes of bipolar disorder. They all tend to go back to the old nature/nu...
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Concerns of Bipolar Disorder Self Injury
by Li Ming Wong.In bipolar disorder, there is sometimes concern about bipolar disorder self injury. This can take many shapes, but is always serious.One form of bipolar disorder self injury that is coming most recently into the public consciousness is self mutilati...
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Recognizing Bipolar Disorder Symptoms
by Li Ming Wong.There may come a time when a person needs to determine if a loved one needs to seek help for his or her problems. In fact, there may come a time for many when it is important to be able to recognize bipolar disorder symptoms.Bipolar disorder symptom...
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