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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

Everyday Sadism in the Workplace

Sadism in the workplace involves cruel behavior for pleasure, often overlooked by untrained leaders who misinterpret it as motivation.
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

When We Assume Psychopathy Is Involved in Serial Murders

When the topic of serial murder comes up, almost reflexively, the diagnosis of psychopathic personality is given as an explanation for the offender's behavior. Question: "Why did he kill all these people?" Answer: "He's a psychopath." It seems that once it is proclaimed that the serial killer is a psychopath, everything is understood. This assertion has gained such widespread acceptance that its validity is never questioned.
Psychology
Psychology
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Charismatic and extremely confident': how to recognise and handle a psychopath

Psychopathic and dark personality traits exist on a continuum across all social levels, from families to institutions, affecting approximately 1% of the general population at clinical levels.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

What Is Hope in Mental Health Treatment?

Hope is an active process involving a vision of a better future, imagination, trust, and conviction that a better life can occur despite obstacles.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
3 months ago

4 Warning Signs to Help You Spot High-Conflict People Early

High-conflict individuals display overt or covert damaging behaviors—gaslighting, blame-shifting, and lack of empathy—that repeat across relationships and require early boundary-setting.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
4 months ago

Stop Weaponizing Personality Disorders

Pop culture routinely misapplies personality disorder labels to ordinary behavior, promoting stigma and obscuring the careful assessment required for accurate diagnosis.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
4 months ago

How to Best Understand Dictators, Autocrats, and Bullies

Personality disorders best explain dictators, autocrats, and bullies, who often are egosyntonic and show antisocial, narcissistic, paranoid, and sadistic trait constellations.
fromPsychology Today
4 months ago

Where's the Person in Personality Disorders?

People with personality disorders (PDs) have, by definition, a set of traits or enduring dispositions that aren't working for them. Everyone has a " personality," and everyone has certain traits. In personality disorders, these traits get in the way of an individual's ability to adapt to life's changing circumstances. When diagnosing PDs, mental health professionals in the United States now have little choice but to decide what category best fits an individual's symptoms.
Mental health
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
5 months ago

Redefining Who You Are Via Personality Change

Personality traits exist on a continuum; disliking a trait doesn't mean a disorder, and traits can shift with practice to better align with goals.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
6 months ago

Four Reasons to Dump the Dark Triad Label

The term 'dark triad' is misleading and stigmatizing; it conflates distinct traits and should be retired in favor of precise, non-stigmatizing trait descriptions.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
7 months ago

Why We Still Need Categories in Personality Diagnosis

Dimensional models offer continuous trait measurement but risk erasing clinically essential categorical distinctions that enable diagnosis, treatment, communication, and empathic understanding.
fromPsychology Today
11 months ago

Pathology Without a Person

Once, psychopathy was personal, a fractured mind. But what if manipulation and emotional detachment could be coded, scaled, and unleashed on the world? We might already be there.
Digital life
fromPsychology Today
11 months ago

The Forgotten Personality Disorders

A new review shows evidence of the feasibility and effectiveness of therapy for individuals with schizoid, schizotypal, and paranoid personality disorders.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
1 year ago

'Seinfeld' Offered Insight Into Personality and Defenses

George's character exhibits fear of rejection and has struggles with assertiveness, manifesting dependent and passive-aggressive traits, showcasing a complex personality pathology.
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