Otto F. Kernberg

They touch each other.

Theoreticians like Otto Kernberg, quite frankly, when he described, and he's a major theoretician when it comes to narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder.

If you read his writings, the way he describes narcissism and narcissistic personality, it actually resembles borderline personality as its list is described in the DSM.

So the overlap has often been well known.

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Psychologist Otto Kernberg described millennial narcissism as a dangerous hybrid of four severe elements.

Narcissistic personality disorder, NPD, antisocial traits, paranoia, and sadism.

Understanding how their mind operates can help demystify the calculated nature of the spirit campaign you experience.

And when whenever things are all good, the the the way that they think about things takes on.

So the all good takes on the full the way it's put in like Kernberg puts it.

It takes on the full emotional, ideational and motor consciousness.

So in a sense, if I'm thinking of there's only two ways to really view myself and they're mutually exclusive.

They touch each other.

Theoreticians like Otto Kernberg, quite frankly, when he described, and he's a major theoretician when it comes to narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder.

If you read his writings, the way he describes narcissism and narcissistic personality, it actually resembles borderline personality as its list is described in the DSM.

So the overlap has often been well known.

Projection is the most classical defense of the narcissist.

And this is something that's been written about in the granddaddies of the field, Freud and Kernberg and all of them.

Now it makes sense because projection is deep and primitive, just like the insecurity and the ego vulnerability of the narcissist.

Projection happens when a person projects an unacceptable thought or behavior or feeling or an uncomfortable conflict onto someone else.

And it's a built-in part of the narcissistic pattern.

Like I was referring to Freud before.

In Freud's early writings about narcissism, as well as the writings of other really famous narcissism theoreticians like Otto Kernberg, they really delve in into how important this idea of projection, this defense, is to understanding the narcissistic personality style.

Now, do all of us sometimes engage in projection? Absolutely yes.

Freud wrote the seminal work on narcissism.

And from there on in, this term was peppered throughout the psychoanalytic literature with major work being done by folks like Kernberg and Kohut.

It wasn't until 1980, 1980 in the DSM-III, that narcissistic personality disorder even showed up in any diagnostic manual.

And who the hell knows what these people were diagnosed with before then? Probably a whole bunch of other stuff.

There's a psychological reason for that, and it's way more disturbing than you think.

Psychologist Otto Kernberg at Cornell University spent decades studying narcissistic personality disorder and what happens when a narcissist's false image starts to fall apart.

He called it narcissistic collapse.

Here's how it works.

In the early 20th century, I always look to people like Otto Rank as the ones who brought-- as one of the ones who brought this term into the realm of psychology and psychiatry, and in his writings, actually brought it to more of the grandiose and superficial manifestations of excessive vanity and self-validation.

Freud wrote the seminal work on narcissism, and from there on in, this term was peppered throughout the psychoanalytic literature with major work being done by folks like Kernberg and Kohut.

It wasn't until 1980, 1980, in the DSM-III, that narcissistic personality disorder even showed up in any diagnostic manual, and who the hell knows what these people were diagnosed with before then? Probably a whole bunch of other stuff.

There is a tricky history around equating narcissism with illness.