Histrionic Personality Disorder

Rethinking Female Sociopathy, Part Two

In Rethinking Female Sociopathy, Part One, I went through a comprehensive list of sociopathic traits based on psychologists Hervey Cleckley‘s and Robert Hare’s psychopathy checklists. For every single item mentioned, I can think of a real life example that every one of my clients has suffered. Are these men’s wives, girlfriends and exes sociopaths? Maybe, [...]

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Shrink4Men Radio Embed: High-Conflict Divorce with Attorney Natalie Malonis

Hello Everyone, Thank you to Natalie for being such a wonderful guest and providing such helpful information. Thank you to callers and the folks hanging out in the chat room. Thank you also to Paul Elam of AVoiceforMen for screening calls. For those of you who are interested, the two songs featured on this program [...]

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Rethinking Female Sociopathy, Part One

Written by Dr Tara J. Palmatier on January 4, 2012 - 66 Comments
Categories: Abuse, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Personality Disorders

People hear the word sociopath and it conjures up images of Charles Manson, Bernie Madoff, and other serial killers, hucksters and con artists. Yes, these individuals are sociopaths, but they’re extreme and obvious ones. Most sociopaths don’t reach the notoriety of Manson and Madoff. Even so, sociopathy is far more common than we like to [...]

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Apples and Other Forms of Female Manipulation

Written by Micksbabe on December 7, 2011 - 25 Comments
Categories: Abuse, Accountability, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Custody, Divorce, Financial Abuse, High-Conflict, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Legal, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Negative Advocates, Parental Alienation, Personality Disorders, Professional Victims, Psychological Abuse

CrazyBuster, Micksbabe, gives us some more “food for thought” with an interesting article about female manipulation and how it is used in the family court system. – Dr T And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired [...]

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Predator Detection and the Devil of Plurality: Personality Disorders and the Nature of Good and Evil

Written by azcameron on December 5, 2011 - 105 Comments
Categories: Abuse, Accountability, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Blame, Borderline Personality Disorder, Domestic Violence, High-Conflict, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Personality Disorders, Physical Abuse, Professional Victims, Psychological Abuse, Rage, Relationships

The following article is written by Alex Z. Cameron, whom regular readers of Shrink4Men may recognize from his participation in the comments of past articles. In his first piece, Alex connects the dots from his undiagnosed personality disordered parents to his attraction for toxic, abusive personality-disordered women and the impact relationships with personality-disordered individuals has [...]

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