Posted by SLS on May 18, 2011, at 4:57:13
In reply to Re: Narcissism no longer in DSM, posted by sigismund on May 17, 2011, at 21:09:42
> > The Plague became far more common than narcissism
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> It's not more common now.I don't see how this is relevant to the analogy I drew. The Plague is not common now because it has consistently been considered pathological with an urgency to be treated medically.
> It's as if narcissism is the defense against feelings of total worthlessness.
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> This society (maybe every society) does not have much care for losers, as they are vulgarly termed.You have a good point. It would be better to prescribe for someone a childhood in a functional family with little psychosocial stress. Unfortunately, this is not immediately practicable. Narcissism is a coping phenomenon? Okay. That doesn't make it healthy and best left untreated. Perhaps it is better considered a dimension to be factored in when establishing a diagnosis. I don't know.
- Scott
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
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