Origin Story
Hunter, born of a river god and a nymph. Prideful and too caught up in his looks. Fell in love with his own image and lost the will to live.
Who is Narcissus?
This aspect of personality disorders is at the root of the difficulty to treat them because individuals suffering from personaility disorders have a hard time seeing their behavior as problematic/seeing their illness; their thoughts and behaviors do not conflict with their sense of identity.
What is ego-syntonic?
According to researchers, this aspect of NPD can be conceptualized as “primary narcissism”, as internalized feelings of shame, low self-worth, and difficulty processing criticism or failure are at the core of all narcissistic behaviors.
Vulnerability
This is a personaility type characterized by excessive narcissism, machiavellianism and psychopathy.
What is the Dark Triad
The name of the magazine that played a role in the development of the Goldwater Rule
What is Fact Magazine
This is the core of self-esteem and emotions, which influence the way one perceives and relates to other; a personality trait or feature that exists on a spectrum.
What is Narcissism?
In this DSM category you will find the emotional and dramatic personality disorders, which includes NPD
What is Cluster B?
These are the officially recognized types or subtypes of NPD
What is there are no types/subtypes of NPD
These commonly used terms are not offical diagnoses but the disorder that most closely represents them in the DSM is antisocial personality disorder(ASPD).
What is Psycopath or Sociopath
Critiques of the Goldwater Rule often site this "duty"
What is duty to warn?
An individual’s pattern of behavior and traits that are long-standing and present since adolescence or early adulthood.
What is personality?
What are grandiosity, need for admiration and lack of empathy?
Narcissistic patients are best differentiated from each other based on relative levels of what two things?
What are grandiosity and vulnerability
Characterized as an intense, painful experience for a narcissist when they feel they have been criticized, defeated, disrespected, slighted, overlooked, ignored, or insulted.
What is narcissistic injury
This organization developed the Goldwater Rule for its members in 1973.
What is the American Psychiatric Association
A mental health condition that involves long-lasting, all-encompassing, disruptive patterns of thinking, behavior, mood and relating to others. These patterns cause a person significant distress and/or impair their ability to function.
What is a personaility disorder?
A narcissist parent may do this, forcing their own unresolved emotions, fears and insecurities onto the child to rid themselves of them; results in pervasive sense of confusion for child, along with self-doubt and internalizing a false narrative, diminishing of child’s own true experiences and traumas
Projective Identification
These are the two ways that narcisstic personality disorder can be expressed.
What are overt and covert expressions?
This is arguably the only thing a narcissist works for/ is subserviant to
Year during which the Goldwater Rule was re-empasized since its inception.
2017
According to this text, NPD is a a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) criteria.
What is the Diagnositic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
This can include put-down or "jokes" that aren't really that funny and keep someone in a position of confusion/ uncertainty. Often employed by narcissistic parents so they feel superior.
Marginalization
When two or more mental health conditions exist simultaneously in one person.
What is comorbidity
Research has shown rate of comorbidity of NPD with other personality disorders as high as this percentage rate
What is 50%
Presidential race that lead to the inception of the Goldwater Rule.
1964 presidential race between Barry Goldwater and Lyndon Johnson