Task 5 Personality disorders Flashcards

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DSM 5 Narcissism

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  • pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood , present in variety of contexts
  • > indicated by five (or more):

1) grandiose sense of self-importance
2) fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, ideal love
3) belief one is special and unique , only understood by high status people
4) requires excessive admiration
5) Sense of entitlement
6) interpersonally exploitative
7) lacks empathy
8) often envious of other / believes others are envious
9) arrogant, haughty behaviors/attitudes

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love style narcissists

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  • ludus
  • > game playing
  • attention to extradyadic others
  • aversion to partner dependence
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what does a narcissist seek in a relationship?

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  • status and self-esteem

- > rating themselves as superior to partner

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self love (Narcissism vs self esteem )

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  • narcissism: bad for loving others

- self esteem: more positive

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Role of self esteem and love/relationship

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High:

  • > less likely to experience manic love
  • > Eros ( physical passion, escalating romantic involvement)
  • > experience love more passionate

Low:

  • love more intensely
  • more likely to report unrequited love
  • Mania (painful obsession with love object)
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Article: social rejection and aggression

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  • Narcissists:
  • > more anger, fewer internalized emotions
  • > more likely to blast their rejecters with longer and louder bursts of white noise
  • > more willing to use displaced aggression ( opportunity was given to aggress against innocent third party)

-> ‘independence’ of N. may just reflect deep need for social acceptance/dominance

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Prevalence

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  • 1 to 2.2p

- in clinical population: more frequently diagnosed in men

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cognitive theory

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  • people develop unrealistically positive assumptions about self-worth
  • > result of indulgence (Nachsicht) and overevaluation by significant others during childhood

-others develop belief that they are unique/exceptional as defense against rejection by important people in their life

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psychodynamic theories

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biological basis NPD

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  • deficits in PF grey matter volume > affects emotion regulation and empathic processing
  • > contributes to self referential processing bias
  • sympathetic activation and negative reactions to happy stimuli
  • indifference to fearful and sad stimuli
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Alexithymia

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-inability to identify and describe feelings and differentiate feelings from bodily sensations

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