Tag Archives: personality disorder

Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder

September 5, 2014Manipulation, Mental Health, Narcissism, Personality and Character Disorders, Psychology, Relationshipsborderline personality, dependence, manipulation, narcissism, neurosis, personality disorder, personality traits, psychosisDr. Simon

The folks we label “borderline” are individuals whose personalty never quite came together. And it’s because of this personality integration failure that they not only appear to have a distinctively erratic, unpredictable, and unstable manner of coping but also frequently display features of other personality disturbances such as narcissism, dependence, manipulation proneness, etc. For these and many other reasons, coming to an accurate understanding of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) can be quite a challenging task.

A Rare But Potentially Dangerous Personality Disorder

May 30, 2014Aggression, Mental Health, Personality and Character Disorders, Psychology, Social Issuesdangerousness, paranoia, paranoid personality, personality disorder, psychosisDr. Simon

Paranoid personalities exhibit a persistent, pervasive pattern of mistrust of the intentions and motivations of others. And they can misconstrue even the most neutral or benign events as evidence of conspiracies, ill-intentions, and justification to mistrust

Personality and Character Disorders: A Primer

May 24, 2013Personality and Character, Personality and Character Disorders, Psychologycharacter, character disorder, personality, personality disorder, psychologyDr. Simon

Traditional personality perspectives have proved inadequate when it comes to understanding the makeup of the more unsavory characters among us. That’s why for years, many in the behavioral science field (myself included) have advocated for a more comprehensive conceptualization of personality.

Aggressive Personalities: An Upcoming Refresher Course

February 21, 2013Aggression, Personality and Character, Personality and Character Disorders, Psychological Manipulation, Psychology, Relationshipsaggression, anger management, character, character disorder, character disturbance, covert-aggression, emotional abuse, manipulation, personality, personality disorder, tactics, verbal abuseDr. Simon

Human aggression is most often manifested in the unscrupulous and undisciplined will to power.

Therapy and the Face of Real Change

February 1, 2013Personality and Character Disorders, Psychology, Responsibility, Therapycharacter, character disorder, character disturbance, contrition, denial, guilt, impression management, manipulation, neurosis, personality disorder, therapyDr. Simon

Legitimate, genuine, potentially lasting change – always manifests itself in the here-and-now moment.

Traditional Therapy Biases and “Denial”

January 12, 2013Abuse, Personality and Character Disorders, Psychology, Relationships, Therapycharacter, character disorder, character disturbance, contrition, denial, guilt, impression management, manipulation, neurosis, personality disorder, therapyDr. Simon

Traditional frameworks can be not only ineffective but also frighteningly enabling sometimes when it comes to understanding and dealing with character dysfunction.

Character Disturbance, Neurosis, and Therapy

November 28, 2012Abuse, Personality and Character, Personality and Character Disorders, Psychology, Relationships, Therapycharacter, character disorder, character disturbance, correction, disturbed characters, insight, neurosis, personality disorder, therapy, thinking errorsDr. Simon

What most people really mean when they (therapists and lay persons alike) say that there’s no real hope for personality and character-impaired individuals is that they’ve tried traditional approaches only to have experienced the truly frustrating results.

Aggressive Personalities: Part 1

October 5, 2012Abuse, Aggression, Personality and Character, Personality and Character Disorders, Relationships, Responsibilityabsuse, aggression, aggressive personalities, character, character disorder, personality disorder, responsibility, toxic relationshipsDr. Simon

Aggressive personalities cause the greatest problems both in the conduct of interpersonal relationships and for maintaining the social order.

Why Character Matters

May 19, 2011Abuse, Mental Health, Personality and Character Disorders, Relationshipsabuse, character, character disorder, character disturbance, culture, personality, personality disorder, Psychopathy and Sociopathy, sociopathy, Unhealthy RelationshipsDr. Simon

Developing character is a very delicate social process that requires time, energy, a strong family unit, and powerful community support structures.

Another Day in It’s All About Me Hell

September 24, 2010Personality and Character Disorders, Relationshipscharacter, character disorder, character disturbance, entitled, entitlement, excitement-seeking, hedonism, irresponsibility, personality disorder, responsibility, self-centered, self-indulgent, Unhealthy RelationshipsDr. Simon

Disturbed characters’ self-indulgence always creates a living hell for those around them but can also create one for themselves. This woman’s life will be a continual shipwreck until she makes up her mind to start accepting some responsibility for her actions and their impact on those she supposedly loves.

Dr. George Simon

Author, Public Speaker, Consultant, Character Development Coach, Composer