Why Abuse Survivors are DISBELIEVED: Narcopath’s Double Face (Isolation, Compartmentalization)

Psychopath: compartmentalization of positive emotions.

Ingroup and outgroup.

Machiavellianism: Power play: catching emotions is defeat by a manipulative abuser (the victim!)

Honesty only when ready to move on or when attempting to destroy victim

Decoy behaviors

Comorbidities: NPD+BPD, Malignant narcissism explained via compartmentalization/isolation.

Compartmentalization and isolation are the mechanisms that enable dissociation, splitting, concentration/attention/focus, cognitive dissonance, comorbidities, and self-states (see IPAM).

Coping with death

Addictions like workaholism

It is more like role play but one role being surrealistic and another grounded in reality, one internal and one external (responsive to internal vs. external environment, respectively).

LITERATURE: APA DICTIONARY

compartmentalization

n. a defense mechanism in which thoughts and feelings that seem to conflict or to be incompatible are isolated from each other in separate and apparently impermeable psychic compartments. In the classical psychoanalytic tradition, compartmentalization emerges in response to fragmentation of the ego, which ideally should be able to tolerate ambiguity and ambivalence.

Isolation

in psychoanalytic theory, a defense mechanism that relies on keeping unwelcome thoughts and feelings from forming associative links with other thoughts and feelings, with the result that the unwelcome thought is rarely activated. See also compartmentalization.

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