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Published in S. Alexander Haslam, Psychological Insights for Understanding COVID-19 and Society, 2020
The meeting in Singapore was an encounter between the two major types of narcissism of the twentieth century, continuing into the present. Trump embodies the narcissistic tendency inherent in market-based societies, while Kim is the apotheosis of the collectivised form of narcissism generated by totalitarian societies. But the psychological root of each man is the same. We must remind ourselves that narcissism is not a simple excess of self-regard, but a defence against fear, against what would otherwise be an overwhelming internal sense of vulnerability and weakness. It is a mode of experience in which the intrinsic dependency of the self on others is so terrifying that it has to be denied. We all engage in this manoeuvre to some extent, but when narcissism becomes the founding principle of a personality, the fear against which it defends is firmly sealed off in the unconscious.
De Clérambault’s syndrome
Published in David Enoch, Basant K. Puri, Hadrian Ball, Uncommon Psychiatric Syndromes, 2020
David Enoch, Basant K. Puri, Hadrian Ball
Narcissism there is indeed in these cases, and in plenty. For example, Marie Bashkirtseff, a young Russian girl who developed an overwhelming passion for the Duke of Hamilton (which, although she had never actually met him, lasted seven years and filled very many of the pages of the 84 volumes of her diary) was, according to her biographer, Doris Langley Moore, even more narcissistic than is usual for an adolescent. Thus, in addition to complaining that she did not enjoy a performance at the opera because there was no one there to admire her, she wrote, “I am capable of remaining for hours together in my dressing room quite naked in front of the glass. Never has anyone seen such whiteness, fineness and elegance of modelling” (Moore, 1966).
What to listen for: psychological medicine
Published in Barry Bub, Communication Skills that Heal, 2020
Narcissists have little self-esteem, and structure their lives around receiving admiration and support, or else they experience self-deprecating depression. They work hard at impressing others and when they receive criticism they feel shame and humiliation. They tend to be overachievers and may be grandiose. Narcissists will flatter their healthcare professionals because they need to feel they have the best. Should they fail to receive the mirroring that they crave, should the professional seem less than the best, e.g., make a mistake, they may lash out angrily with hatred.
An Other Perspective on Five Factor Machiavellianism
Published in Journal of Personality Assessment, 2021
Bastian P. Kückelhaus, Gerhard Blickle
Third, the FFMI subscales correlate significantly with one another but at a low level (i.e., r’s ranging between .11. and −.16). Can we really consider them as reflecting more than a collection of phenomena with a joint label? These kind of measures are called compound measures (Lilienfeld, 2013) and reflect formative constructs (e.g., job satisfaction; MacKenzie et al., 2005). This also applies to the Triarchic Psychopathy Model (Drislane et al., 2014), in which meanness and disinhibition are relatively highly correlated with one another but are both uncorrelated (or negatively correlated) with boldness. It also seems to be the case for Narcissism, which is underlaid by three factors–Agentic Extraversion, Interpersonal Antagonism, and Neuroticism–none of which are highly correlated with each other (Crowe et al., 2019). The FFMI is certainly not an anomaly among Dark Triad or personality disorder constructs. None are effectively unidimensional, and their different dimensions have differential relations to outcomes.
Self-Esteem in 12-Step Recovery; Theoretical History, Evidence, and Implications for Future Research
Published in Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 2021
Austin McNeill Brown, Mariah Brennan Nanni, Onawa P. LaBelle
Previous research on narcissism and 12-Step members has not produced satisfactory evidence of a significant relationship between reductions in pathological forms of narcissism and 12-Step meeting attendance, nor has reduction in pathological narcissism demonstrated any significant link to abstinence (Tonigan, Rynes, Toscova, & Hagler, 2013). Tonigan et al. (2013) also demonstrated that the elevated pathological narcissism score of early recovery appears to remain stable for at least 9 months into recovery. The role of narcissism in intrapersonal recovery dynamics appears to be complex. This is likely due to the complex nature of narcissism as a psychological construct. Positive forms of narcissism are measured and defined as “authority and leadership” related to positive self-regard and pathological narcissism is measured and defined as “grandiose exhibitionism,” and “entitlement or exploitativeness” (Gentile et al., 2013, p. 1120). We were interested in whether total narcissism scores would negatively correlate with self-esteem or whether the domains of positive and pathological narcissism would split into positive and negative correlation with SE, thus highlighting the relationship between authority/leadership domain and positive self-regard in a long-term recovery cohort that is active in 12-Step participation.
Hello from the Other Side: Can We Perceive Others’ Darkness? Observers’ Accuracy of the Dark Triad
Published in Journal of Personality Assessment, 2021
Lena Lämmle, Fridtjof W. Nussbeck, Matthias Ziegler
Additionally, the LD approach made it possible to estimate the influence of the traits themselves on over- and underestimations. Again, the different Dark Triad traits exhibited differing effects. Stronger narcissism had only a small negative correlation with the LD score for parents, showing that higher narcissism might lead to an underestimation of the same trait by parents. This could mean that the parent’s positive view of their child (Leising et al., 2014) increases the more the trait manifests. Another explanation might be the behavioral-genetic profiles of the Dark Triad traits. Even though all three have a moderate to large heritable component, Machiavellianism also has environmental roots (Vernon, Villani, Vickers, & Harris, 2008). Thus, the clear genetic component of narcissism along with its high visibility for the self and others might positively affect parents’ judgments of their narcissistic child. This might also relate to the ego-reinforcement motive (Jones & Paulhus, 2014) of the narcissistic parent him- or herself. All other correlations between LD scores and narcissism were either not significant or rather small (not exceeding r = .05).