Responding to the Antisocial Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Etiology, Challenges, and Treatment

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211220.323How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Personality disorder; Antisocial Personality Disorder; Narcissistic Personality Disorder; Etiology; Obstacles; Treatment; Case Study; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Abstract

Personality disorder: the set of enduring behavioral and mental traits that distinguish an individual from other people. Based on the DSM-5, ten different personality disorders are grouped into three clusters based on common features——cluster A, cluster B, and cluster C. The paper focuses on cluster B, which is characterized by personality styles that are impulsive, dramatic, highly emotional, and erratic. Cluster B disorders include antisocial personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, and borderline personality disorder. The paper mainly discusses antisocial and narcissistic personality disorder. A person with antisocial personality disorder continuously violates the rights of others; often lies, fights, and has problems with the law; he or she can be deceitful and manipulative to gain profit or pleasure, and the patient lacks feelings for others and remorse over misdeeds. And people with narcissistic personality disorder have an overinflated and unjustified sense of self-importance and are preoccupied with fantasies of success. They believe they are entitled to special treatment from others, take advantage of others, and lack empathy. Case studies involved in the following paper will give authentic examples to demonstrate the specific symptoms of those disorders. Based on the features of being hard to communicate with, lacking remorse, tending to be violent, and being difficult to realize that they need psychological or medical help, patients with cluster B disorders are difficult to be treated. Although some treatments are developed and used to treat those disorders, few of them are effective and qualified. Hence, the paper contains studies and experiments that aim to question and qualify the effect and efficiency of specific treatment of Cluster B disorders. The future development of the treatment of Cluster B disorders is also expected in the last part of the paper.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Mutian Pi
AU  - Yu Zuo
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/24
TI  - Responding to the Antisocial Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Etiology, Challenges, and Treatment
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 4th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1899
EP  - 1902
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211220.323
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211220.323
ID  - Pi2021
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