Narcissist or Psychotic? Borderline or Schizophrenic?
June 22, 2023
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as posted by the channelWatch Child's Defense Against MadnessPersonality Disorders (Schizotypy and Neoteny)
Psychosis or Schizophrenia?
Schizotypal, Schizoid, Paranoid Personality Disorders are pre-psychotic.
Role play in (erotic, aggressive, self-aggrandizing) fantasy (e.g., hero) about self (others=self)
Self-directed self-efficacy (wish-fulfilment and substitutive action as self-regulation)
Pathetiology: childhood trauma (PTSD)
Internal vs. External (hyperreflexivity)
Paranoia and Paranoid PD
Magical thinking (persecutory: demons or grandiose: hero, tasked by god)
Delusions (cognitive distortions such as grandiosity)
Hallucinations (stress in BPD)
Derealization and depersonalization
Lability and dysregulation (erratic)
Self-perception (e.g., as victim)
Anhedonia
Reduced affect display
Avolition
Asociality
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LITERATURE
Psychosis and Schizophrenia-Spectrum Personality Disorders Require Early Detection on Different Symptom Dimensions by Frauke Schultze-Lutter, Igor Nenadic, and Phillip Grant
Front. Psychiatry, 11 July 2019, Sec. Psychopathology, Volume 10 2019 |
Psychotic symptoms in borderline personality disorder: developmental aspects by
Marialuisa Cavelti, Katherine Thompson, Andrew M. Chanen, Michael Kaess, Current Opinion in Psychology, Volume 37, February 2021, Pages 26-31
The Concept of Narcissism in Psychosis and in Severe Personality Disorders by Trifu, Simona; Zamfir, Raluca. Euromentor Journal; Bucharest Vol. 5, Iss. 1, (Mar 2014): 120-127.
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