Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-20 Thread Nick Thompson
- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ? Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 4:48 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders Ha! Right. Sorry. I didn't mean to offend. But so

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-20 Thread Nick Thompson
m-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 2:19 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders Why does Trump display Narcissistic [Personality] Disorder Symptoms? Becau

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-20 Thread glen ☣
Well, that confirms that it is more like a layered system, even if it's simply self-reported or all in the diagnoser's head. The last 2 sentences of Kernberg's description directly imply constructive causation. But regardless of any competence with or understanding of this particular domain,

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-20 Thread Frank Wimberly
"What Frank says below is of type (1). What Jochen (and others) have talked about before (childhood experiences, etc.) is more like type (2)." Type 2? The authentic selfhood of the child is not authenticated by the parent(s). According to psycoanalyst Otto Kernberg: "Presenting excessive

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-20 Thread glen ☣
Ha! Right. Sorry. I didn't mean to offend. But some people really do think you can't get anything done with getting your hands ... muddy. And in their defense, that "pure mud" they use at, say, beauty salons is kinda gross to me. If I get muddy, I much prefer, chunky, heterogeneous mud.

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-20 Thread glen ☣
Excellent! Thanks, Eric (and everyone -- I'm enjoying this). So, here's my, in class, answer to Nick's quiz: nick> What is the difference between a circular explanation and a recursive one. What is the key dimension that determines whether an explanation is viciously circular? Is the

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-20 Thread Frank Wimberly
plied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders Glen, I'm not sure if Nick can do that. However, he is very good at clarifying issues by telling me how I am wrong. With that in mind, I'll attempt a summary, of which I am fairly

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-20 Thread Nick Thompson
thlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ? Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 11:17 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality dis

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-20 Thread Nick Thompson
dfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders Glen, I'm not sure if Nick can do that. However, he is very good at clarifying issues by telling me how I am wrong. With that in mind, I'll attempt a summary, of which I am fairly confident: Circular explanations occur when a

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-20 Thread Eric Charles
Glen, I'm not sure if Nick can do that. However, he is very good at clarifying issues by telling me how I am wrong. With that in mind, I'll attempt a summary, of which I am fairly confident: Circular explanations occur when a description of the phenomenon in question is offered as an explanation

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-20 Thread glen ☣
On 01/18/2017 07:38 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: > Here is your assignment for tomorrow. I am a (proud) C student. So, of course, I will never meet your deadlines. 8^) > https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281410347_Comparative_psychology_and_the_recursive_structure_of_filter_explanations >

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-19 Thread Owen Densmore
ly <wimber...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Why is my husband unable to breathe and coughs all the time? And what >>> is this large white area on his chest x-ray? >>> >>> He has lung cancer. >>> >>> How do you know? >>&g

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-19 Thread Robert J. Cordingley
boun...@redfish.com>] On Behalf Of glen ? Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 5:32 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders I found this opinion refreshing: Narcissistic Personality Disorder a

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-19 Thread Frank Wimberly
imberly >> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz >> Santa Fe, NM 87505 >> >> wimber...@gmail.com wimbe...@cal.berkeley.edu >> Phone: (505) 995-8715 Cell: (505) 670-9918 >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Beha

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-19 Thread Eric Charles
m] On Behalf Of glen ? > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 5:32 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders > > > I found this opinion refreshing: > > Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the President-Ele

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-18 Thread Nick Thompson
...@redfish.com <mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com> ] On Behalf Of glen ? Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 5:32 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders I found this opinion refreshing: Narcissistic Personality Disorder an

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-18 Thread Frank Wimberly
About 30 years ago there was a long article in the New Yorker about problems of mental health diagnosis and treatment. It was based on a real patient who was given the fictitious name of Sylvia Frumpkin. The consensus diagnosis for her was schizophrenia but one Asian Indian resident said her

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-18 Thread gepr
No worries. The thing is, though, with cancer and pneumonia we do have well evidenced, reproducible, mechanistic hypotheses. That makes those hypotheses way more robust and trustworthy than personality disorders. So while there may be some deeply embedded circular reasoning in any diagnosis,

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-18 Thread Frank Wimberly
gmail.com wimbe...@cal.berkeley.edu > Phone: (505) 995-8715 Cell: (505) 670-9918 > > -Original Message- > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ? > Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 5:32 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexi

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-18 Thread Frank Wimberly
Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders I found this opinion refreshing: Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the President-Elect http://behaviorismandmentalhealth.com/2017/01/16/narcissistic-personality-disorder-and-the-president-elect/ I particularly liked the (strawman

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-18 Thread glen ☣
I found this opinion refreshing: Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the President-Elect http://behaviorismandmentalhealth.com/2017/01/16/narcissistic-personality-disorder-and-the-president-elect/ I particularly liked the (strawman) circularity caricatured by conflating phenomenology with

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-18 Thread Barry MacKichan
Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders Yes, pathological narcissism starts during the first two years of life. Hence the infantile symptomatology. But it can be aggravated during adolescence, say, by the kinds of things Jochen mentions. Heinz

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-17 Thread Jochen Fromm
: Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders If you want to psychoanalyze Trump, you might start before he was sent to the NYMA.  I.e., WHY did his father send him there ? -J On 1/17/17 2:43 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: In 2011 there was a press conf

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-17 Thread Frank Wimberly
>> >>> Clark University >>> >>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ >>> >>> >>> >>> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Frank >>> Wimberly >>> *Sent:* Tuesday, Janua

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-17 Thread Marcus Daniels
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders Nick, No. "Self" has a technical meaning in psychoanalysis. The tiny baby experiences the world as self-(m)other after a certain amou

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-17 Thread Roger Critchlow
;> >> >> Nicholas S. Thompson >> >> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology >> >> Clark University >> >> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ >> >> >> >> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-17 Thread Frank Wimberly
gt; > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Frank > Wimberly > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 17, 2017 3:00 PM &g

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-17 Thread Nick Thompson
ompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2017 3:00 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders Yes, pathological narci

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-17 Thread Frank Wimberly
Yes, pathological narcissism starts during the first two years of life. Hence the infantile symptomatology. But it can be aggravated during adolescence, say, by the kinds of things Jochen mentions. Heinz Kohut wrote a book on the etiology of the pathology in a book called "Analysis of the Self".

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-17 Thread Joe Spinden
If you want to psychoanalyze Trump, you might start before he was sent to the NYMA. I.e., WHY did his father send him there ? -J On 1/17/17 2:43 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: In 2011 there was a press conference where president Obama roasted Trump and mocked about his competence. Trump was

[FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-17 Thread Jochen Fromm
In 2011 there was a press conference where president Obama roasted Trump and mocked about his competence. Trump was sitting in the audience and didn't laugh. For a person with a narcissistic personality disorder this must have been a traumatic experience. Maybe this was the moment where he