PSYD32H3 Lecture Notes - Otto F. Kernberg, Twin Study, Etiology
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News: the large disagreement in proposals for dsm-v has most likely led to the committee to decide not to go along with any major changes. History and prevalence: comes from the greek myth of narcissus. Narcissus mistook his own image for another, fell in love with that image, and died when it failed to love him back: approx. 1-5% of the general population, and 1-17% in clinical settings (although the latter may be misinterpreted, since it most likely comes from a forensic clinical setting): there"s a huge comorbidity with antisocial personality disorder. Ronningstam (1996): she is the authority of narcissistic pd . Has done a lot of work on this: found that 12-38% of npd have a substance use disorders, and 4-47% have traits of bipolar disorder (especially the manic phase). *the co-occurrence of bpd with other disorders is a major problem in justifying and maintaining its validity as a distinct entity.
