"Those who suffer from narcissistic personality disorder have a highly distorted self-image. They are unable to accept that they might have faults and therefore are unable to imagine how other people perceive them. This condition is highly compatible with abusiveness, though it is present in only a small percentage of abusive men."
Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men, Lundy Bancroft
"Your guy may cheat, steal and lie but that doesn't make him an NP."
(member quote)
With 5 million Americans suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and another 10 million with the less severe syndrome Destructive Narcissistic Pattern, Loving the Self-Absorbed is a timely book. Author Nina Brown gives readers specific steps for limiting the effect of a partner's narcissistic behavior and getting what they need out of the relationship. She explains the five types of "destructive narcissism" and how to recognize their effects on a relationship.
Loving the Self Absorbed by Nina Brown (Amazon book description)
Personality Disorders:
http://www.focusas.com/PersonalityDisorders.html
Criteria for Compensatory/Self Confident/Inventive Narcissist
http://www.geocities.com/ptypes/compensatorydc.html
http://www.geocities.com/ptypes/index.html
Borderline Personality Disorder
http://www.bpdcentral.com/resources/basics/indicators.shtml
Acquired Situational Narcissism
http://www.narcissism101.com/Narcissism_
101/acquiredsituationalnpd.html
Acquired Situational Narcissism
http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/journal73.html
Misdiagnosing Narcissism – The BiPolar I Disorder by Sam Vaknin
http://samvak.tripod.com/journal71.html
Misdiagnosing Narcissism – Asperger’s Disorder by Sam Vaknin
http://samvak.tripod.com/journal72.html
Non-Feeling Personality
http://www.coping.org/lowesteem/nonfeel.htm
Troubled Person Personality
http://www.coping.org/lowesteem/trouble.htm
The Passive Aggressive Website
http://www.passiveaggressive.homestead.com/HOWandWhy.html
Passive Aggressive Personality Disorder
http://www.toad.net/~arcturus/dd/papd.htm
The Bad Apples
http://www.healthyplace.com/Communities
/Relationships/khan/thebadapples.html
Neurobiology of Impulsive-Aggressive Personality-Disordered Patients
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Psychopathsgroup/message/4297
Coping with Toxic People
http://breakups101.com/toxicpeople.html
and
http://specialchildren.about.com/od/inthecommunity/a/toxicpeople.htm
Types of Toxic People
http://www.oprah.com/spiritself/lybl/control/ss_lybl_control_10_b.jhtml
Dry Drunk Syndrome
http://www.minnesotarecovery.info/literature/drydrunk.htm
Recognizing and Avoiding Commitment Phobic Men
http://www.everydaybetterliving.com/understanding_
men/commitment_phobic_men1.html
Misdiagnosing Narcissism – Generalized Anxiety Disorder Disorder by Sam
Vaknin
http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/journal93.html
Syphilis
Youth Adolescence - Intermittent Explosive Disorder, Conduct Disroder, ADHD, ADD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and in elderly people, age-related demented, Alzheimers have shown characteristics of NPD/AsPD.
