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Patients with personality disorders have alloplastic defenses and an external locus of control. In other words: rather than accept responsibility for the consequences of their actions, they tend to blame other people or the outside world for their misfortune, failures, and circumstances. Consequently, they fall prey to paranoid persecutory delusions and anxieties. When stressed, they try to preempt (real or imaginary) threats by changing the rules of the game, Introducing new variables, or by trying to manipulate their environment to conform to their needs. They regard everyone and everything as mere instruments of Gratification. Read More
Aug 29 2009
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Take a look at this video and figure out what you think happened. Read More
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Aug 25 2009
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In general, although most of the personality disorders from children and teenagers as a problem only in the initial development time. Exacerbated by repeated abuse and rejection, they become full dysfunctions. Personality disorders are rigid and enduring patterns traits, emotions, and cognitions. In other words, they rarely “evolve” and stable and all pervasive, not episodic. By ‘all-pervasive “, I mean to say that they affect each region in the life of the patient: his career, the relationship between the personal, the social function. Read More
Aug 21 2009
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Psychology is a form of art more than a science. There is no “Theory of Everything” that one can get all mental health phenomena and make falsifiable predictions. However, as far as personality disorders are concerned, it’s easy to understand the general features. Most personality disorders share a set of symptoms (as reported by the patient) and signs (as observed by mental health practitioners). Read More
Aug 17 2009
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One of the concerns and friendly behavior towards others should not be motivated by thinking that same love and good responses. Your own best understanding, and regardless of how reasonable and responsible you live your life, there will be people who will not see the point of view or share the motivation. Read More
Aug 13 2009
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Today, why not make a personal commitment to be happy, although to what life hands you. You must acknowledge that there are too many things more than you have no control. The only thing you can do is to stop allowing them to make dents in the spirit. Read More
Aug 09 2009
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Groups that are not valid theoretical constructs and have not been verified or tested strictly. They are just a convenient shorthand and so provide little additional information about their component personality disorders. Read More
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Aug 05 2009
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The DSM-IV-TR (2000) defines a personality disorder as:
“An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from cultural expectations individuals (and manifested in two or more of its field of mental life:) awareness, effectiveness, interpersonal functioning, or impulse control.” Read More
Aug 01 2009