Personality Functioning News Today

Diagnosing this intricate comorbidity demands a nuanced approach. Here's what you need to know.

Background: Both the latest edition of the DSM-5 as well as the new ICD-11 have established a new focus in the diagnosis of personality disorders: the assessment of personality functioning. This recent shift in focus converges with long-standing psychodynamic conceptualizations of personality pathology, particularly Kernberg’s object relations model. Although a significant amount of research supports these models in adults, much less is known about the validity of these frameworks in youth. Co...

A parenting expert has revealed the mistakes that parents commit which can make narcissistic children.

Narcissism is a complex personality construct associated with childhood invalidation and self and relational difficulties in adulthood. Research has examined the association between pathological narcissism and childhood invalidation, but not between invalidation and other aspects of the narcissistic spectrum. This study examines how remembered invalidation, aspects of narcissism, and self and relational functioning are associated, and how they relate to overall wellbeing. Australian community pa...