Prof Sam Vaknin
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When Covert Borderline Collapses into Malignant Narcissist or Borderline
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WATCH Covert Borderline Playlist
No such thing as comorbidities (co-occurrences) or pure (type constant) categorical types: these are mere artifacts of flawed DSM. The ICD does not yield comorbidities or pure types.
WATCH NPD the ICD11 WayGetting it RIGHT, Finally!
WATCH No BPD in ICD11Borderline Pattern Specifier, Borderline Personality Organization
Had the time to observe covert borderlines in the wild.
Collapse in classic pathological narcissism (failure to maintain appearances) vs. collapse in covert borderline (substantive failure in relationship or career).
WATCH How To Recognize Covert/Collapsed Personality Disorders
In career-related collapse, False Self rendered grandiose (cognitively distorted, impaired reality testing, defiance, contumaciousness, externalized mainly verbal aggression, recklessness) Malignant Narcissist
WATCH Malignant Narcissist Playlist
In interpersonal collapse, locus of control becomes external (clinging, needy, codependent, mood labile, dysregulated affects and behaviors, passive-aggression, primiscuity sadistic, punitive, splitting, switching, cycling)Borderline
WATCH Borderline Personality Disorder Reconceived
In both states of collapse: dissociation, confabulation, acting out, paranoid ideation, attention-seeking
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