(1) His recent play was about a young man exploring his eastern European Jewish heritage – "narcissism dressed up as history" is how Eisenberg dismisses this personal interest of his – and he has specialised in playing nervy, nerdy characters.
(2) Using various self-report indices of these constructs we found that (a) defensive self-enhancement is composed of two orthogonal components: grandiosity and social desirability; (b) grandiosity and social desirability independently predict self-esteem and may represent distinct confounds in the measurement of self-esteem, (c) narcissism is positively related to grandiose self-enhancement (as opposed to social desirability), (d) narcissism is positively associated with both defensive and nondefensive self-esteem, and (e) authority, self-sufficiency, and vanity are the narcissistic elements most indicative of nondefensive self-esteem.
(3) A narcissic fragility and organizing troubles are remaining present and are the origin of an intense strain on the mind.
(4) The resulting 49-item CPI and 39-item MMPI scales correlated .81 with each other, and significantly so at p less than .01 with ratings of narcissism, the Raskin-Hall Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) and the MMPI Narcissism scale of Morey, Waugh, and Blashfield.
(5) According to attorney general Arely Gómez, his narcissism knew no limits and he wanted to take his fame further, to the silver screen in the form of a biopic.
(6) In June, just as Friendship was being published in the US, a blowhard critic named Edward Champion took her to task in an 11,000-word blog post titled “Emily Gould, Literary Narcissism, and the Middling Millennials” , in which his principal beef appeared to be that Gould was a woman and not James Baldwin.
(7) Relating the aggressive instinct to narcissism and the sexual instinct to perversion, two modes of functioning are presented which have some points in common and some diverging but which show the dynamics involved in physical and sexual abuse.
(8) In recent years there has been growing conceptual interest in narcissism, coupled with the rapid development of several paper and pencil measures.
(9) Clinical examples are presented to show the importance of an excessive sense of entitlement--related to narcissism--as it appears in psychotherapy or psychoanalysis; yet it is also visible culturally and politically.
(10) It is a world away from untrammelled narcissism, of which the maverick finance minister has been accused.
(11) Other negative emotions – self-pity, guilt, apathy, pessimism, narcissism – make it a deeply unattractive illness to be around, one that requires unusual levels of understanding and tolerance from family and friends.
(12) It traces the major changes in the general theory that have relevance for the concept of narcissism.
(13) Then the first (and for Freud most important) narcissism concept is represented, narcissism as a mode of object relation and a type of object choice.
(14) But if this charge of narcissism of small differences has any purchase when directed at Assange, it can be levelled too against O'Hagan, who largely ignores the bigger issues about which Assange and WikiLeaks have consistently sounded alarm.
(15) Trimming, triangulating, sneaking small policy advantages and wallowing in the narcissism of small differences, the parties seemed locked in a distant and disreputable Westminster charade.
(16) It is the latter which constitutes the study of narcissism.
(17) Level of narcissism was assessed utilizing Exner's (1973) Self-Focus Sentence Completion Test.
(18) Giles Swayne London • "Intelligent" Boris Johnson commits the age-old folly of mistaking good fortune, selfishness, narcissism and aggression for intelligence, but unwittingly demonstrates the wrongness of his position.
(19) Narcissism has been a perennial topic for psychoanalytic papers since Freud's 'On narcissism: An introduction' (1914).
(20) Instead, her defences were overwhelmed by a frenzy of blogging, narcissism and sniping from the worldwide web.
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(1) Arrogant, narcissistic, egotistical, brilliant – all of that I can handle in Paul,” Levinson writes.
(2) We arrive also to the conclusion that, in contradiction with what we have seen in the literature overview, it seems that narcissistic personality disorders have no negative effect on literary creation.
(3) Persons suffering from major narcissistic problems generally are assumed to be impervious to time-limited treatments.
(4) Interpretively linking the narcissistically inferior and superior configurations into a common gestalt, so that the patient comes to understand that these opposing aspects are mutually linked, defensively interconnected, and reciprocally reinforcing.
(5) After definitions of the terms defense and coping, the disturbances of both linked to narcissistic personality disorders, borderline personality disorders, and major depressions are described.
(6) This article analyzes the functional dynamics of the narcissistic personality.
(7) Using various self-report indices of these constructs we found that (a) defensive self-enhancement is composed of two orthogonal components: grandiosity and social desirability; (b) grandiosity and social desirability independently predict self-esteem and may represent distinct confounds in the measurement of self-esteem, (c) narcissism is positively related to grandiose self-enhancement (as opposed to social desirability), (d) narcissism is positively associated with both defensive and nondefensive self-esteem, and (e) authority, self-sufficiency, and vanity are the narcissistic elements most indicative of nondefensive self-esteem.
(8) Described as a narcissist in the Daily Mail , she was forced to defend her actions at home.
(9) The author's formulations about the relationship of schizophrenic regressions to borderline and narcissistic personalities, and the relevance of Semrad's work to these concepts, are reviewed.
(10) Narcissistic cathexis of the self to these internal psychic structures loosens and hope, aspiration, affection and will become markedly diminished.
(11) They say you’ll never cure a narcissistic, all you can do is ignore him.
(12) The resulting 49-item CPI and 39-item MMPI scales correlated .81 with each other, and significantly so at p less than .01 with ratings of narcissism, the Raskin-Hall Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) and the MMPI Narcissism scale of Morey, Waugh, and Blashfield.
(13) Factors that favoured traumatization were: poor living conditions, interpersonal problems, limited inner resources, low self-esteem (narcissistic problems) and severe psychic deviancy.
(14) It is therefore useful to think of the narcissistic-masochistic character as a clinical entity.
(15) At the scale level, an analysis of variance (ANOVA) demonstrated that the scores obtained by the Black and White groups were significantly different in 9 of the 20 scales (Histrionic, Narcissistic, Antisocial, Paraphrenia, Hypomania, Dysthymia, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse, and Psychotic Delusion).
(16) Self psychologists contend that patients with narcissistic personality disorders have dreams which cannot be understood in terms of current psychoanalytic dream theory and that these dreams, called self state dreams, have a different origin and structure.
(17) These universal and extraordinary phenomena are conceptualized as representing the activity of the creative imagination in solving problems related to coping with intense narcissistic and libidinal pressures.
(18) The mothers narcissistic concerns took precedence over the needs of their children.
(19) Long-term students and students with chronic learning disabilities need a longer therapy because of their deeper anal and narcissistic problems.
(20) At times Rudd comes over as something of a narcissist but then a section on climate change or the global financial crisis will give a sense of the political qualities and the acute intelligence that got him to the top.