As a foster parent I can tell you the hallmarks courses on foster parenting or adoption all warn against are kids with attachment disorders, esp. undiagnosed or overlooked Reactive Attachment Disorder or Borderline Personality Disorder. These are often unlikely to respond to easy intervention
I used to do a lot of testing for the state and I saw
many kids with Reactive Attachment disorder. They
either grossly over-attach or under-attach.
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As a foster parent I can tell you the hallmarks
courses on foster
parenting or adoption all warn against are
There are. When you study them without the clinical
experience they can seem very similar, but they are
quite different in direct experience. Personality
disorders are just extreme extensions of normal
personality traits. By the way, I thought New Mornings
post refering to various posters as
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are. When you study them without the clinical
experience they can seem very similar, but they are
quite different in direct experience. Personality
disorders are just extreme extensions of normal
personality traits.
Peter,
That must be fascinating work for you. As a layman my interest is
using the information as a basis for compassion with disturbed people
I encounter in my life. The distinction that helps me is between
your garden variety asshole and a person trapped in a disorder,
whatever it may be.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
a practicing psychologist and an instructor in the psychiatry
department at Harvard Medical School
Practicing psychiatrist, and lots of people lecture at Harvard, etc. The REAL
question is:
what do the
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Sociopaths are far and few inbetween. Superficially
people who are narcissistic appear to be sociopathic
to the untrained eye.
There's also the issue that these defintions are of people so pathological that
they come to
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote:
Sociopaths are far and few inbetween. Superficially
people who are narcissistic appear to be sociopathic
to the untrained eye.
There's also the
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--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sparaig sparaig@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter drpetersutphen@ wrote:
Sociopaths are far and few inbetween. Superficially
people who are narcissistic
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It's like the catch-22 with alcoholics: If somebody
says, I'm not an alcoholic, the layperson is likely
to say, Alcoholics typically deny they're alcoholics,
so this person must be an alcoholic since he's denied
I think a lot of the points against the book are valid. The book
still rocks. It is popular psychology for the layman. It is her
clinical opinion from her experience with this small group of our
population. If you have interacted with only one of these people in
your life, it is one too many.
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I think a lot of the points against the book are valid. The book
still rocks. It is popular psychology for the layman.
(Er, there's no such thing as popular psychology
for experts. Popular psychology is for
a practicing psychologist and an instructor in the psychiatry
department at Harvard Medical School
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curtisdeltablues@ wrote:
I think a lot of the points
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
a practicing psychologist and an instructor in the psychiatry
department at Harvard Medical School
And...?
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--- In
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wrote:
I was intrigued by Gerbal's definition of sociopath: it simply
indicates someone who has no sense of or possibly no respect for
someone else's sense of boundaries (among other things).
I thought, Ok, I know any
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You are dancing, but not facing the music. What good does it do
anyone for you to indicate per your list that possibly one lister
fits the criteria that you are describing? You obviously have people
in mind, but do
Sociopaths are far and few inbetween. Superficially
people who are narcissistic appear to be sociopathic
to the untrained eye.
--- curtisdeltablues [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I think a lot of the points against the book are
valid. The book
still rocks. It is popular psychology for the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin jflanegi@
wrote:
You are dancing, but not facing the music. What good does it do
anyone for you to indicate per your list that possibly one
lister
fits the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jim_flanegin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK- no problem with your response. No, I don't have a thorn in my
side. I was commenting very specifically on your hints but not
names. I just don't find it very useful is all- and I cannot
speculate who you might
Interesting distinction. There are so many shades of disorder in
human psychology aren't there?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sociopaths are far and few inbetween. Superficially
people who are narcissistic appear to be sociopathic
to the untrained eye.
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