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[d19thdoc]

SEE IT AT: http://www.geocities.com/ptypes/narcissisticpd.html

Narcissistic Personality Disorder
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (American Psychiatric Association, 1994, pg. 661) describes Narcissistic Personality Disorder as 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) of the following:
· has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements);
· is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love;
· believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions);
· requires excessive admiration;
· has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations;
· is interpersonally exploitive, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends;
· lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others;
· is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her;
· shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes.
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[Aristotle The Hun]

[SwanLady]

LOL funny you should post this. I mentioned it in another area where they were discussing Kerry possibly apologizing. People with NPD (most are male, btw) don't APOLOGIZE. They devalue the "object" (person) that once fed their need, but apologize?? Never!

[Navy_Navy_Navy]

Thanks for backing me up on this - I'm no clinician of any sort, just interested in psychology and I've thought for a long time that there was more than mere "egotism" involved, that it probably went into clinical pathology.

The most recent examples:

1 - Doesn't listen to his lawyers and insists that the letters of threat go out to bookstores, television stations. Seeks in other ways to silence the Swifts - calling it a Bush smear campaign.

2 - Doesn't understand that more than a handful of vets just MIGHT be a little ticked off at being labeled misfits and drug-crazed rapists and killers. Doesn't seem to understand the concept that his actions encouraged this smearing of the reputation of the American soldier.

3 - Thinks all he has to do is say, "It wasn't you Swifties, it was all the other veterans.... " and his "Swifts problem" will go away?

Hell, just his visibly intentional moves to completely mimic the life of the REAL JFK is sick. And who builds a life around four months of duty and ignores the rest? It's like his VVAW years and his career in the Senate don't even exist.

He's showing signs of breaking - this phone call to Brant, last night, his fights with campaign staff - his persona may be more fragile than I thought it was. He's had so many years to build it that I thought it would keep him propped up a lot better than it appears to be doing.

I wonder what else might be in the cluster....
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[SwanLady]

[Aristotle The Hun]

Most Borderline Personality Disorder patients are female. Got any female politicians we could speculate about?

Good news from DNC!

Ted Kennedy has offered to drive Hillary home and John Kerry is in charge of the security detail.

John will later claim that he deserves a medal for his heroic actions even though his clothes never got wet and Hillary drowned.

How could life get any better than that?

Sam
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[SwanLady]

[Aristotle The Hun]

[Dwight Callaway]

This thread needs to be developed and turned into a serious diagnosis of Kerry, who is mentally ill, IMO. That diagnosis should then be turned into another issue to paint Kerry with. I am serious! But I know the core Swifties will probably not be interested. However, that does not stop some other group or individual from taking this issue to the media. Hitting Kerry with such a diagnosis is the logical continuation of the charges that have come out so far. This diagnosis gives greater weight and commands more media attention for the charges on the table now.

By the way Aristotle, you can be free of that fear of a Kerry administration, if you had an effective therapeutic method. Try www.emofree.com. Probably heard of it and it may reactivate some of your "clusters". But EFT and it's cousins are the future of your profession, so you might as well get with it.

Dwight
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[jalexson]

[Wing Wiper]

[depotoo]

Kinda mimiks Michael Jackson's symptoms other than the child thing.
Doesn't listen to others, above all others, etc.
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[ETEE]

Doc, I have a Psychologist friend that could not agree with you more. She has sent me Emails over the course of the campaign and in each one tells me what Kerry will do next.............it's scarey. She can see right thru the guy.

I had an older brother that was a liar throughout his life. He would appropriate other peoples "stories" and made them his own. His "story" always had to be bigger and better than everyone elses. It cost him two wives, the respect of all of his kids and every one of his brothers. He died alone. No one wanted to be around him because you never knew when he was telling the truth.

Kerry, in some ways, seems like my older brother in that respect. The PCF Officer, a "loner" telling "stories" that are grander than everyone elses.

[Aristotle The Hun]