The article on why narcissists marry borderlines is an absolute hoot!

Also, the line about the Iraq war: If everyone thought the war was about oil and Haliburton, why didn't they buy stock in those two companies?

i'd love to get in on his discussion about personality disorders, but publicly is such a crapshoot.
i bet patients haunt this guy's blog like a desecrated buriall ground.

i have got to stop reading this. i have too many things i want to say about the bpd vs npd thing and it's interesting about too any issues i wanna say something about.
But this is an interesting note about elderly suicide rates.

I've just read basically the whole blog. I like a lot of it. His criticisms of psychiatry, in the service of improved care for patients, echo many of my own. I like his attitude. I'll be thinking more about the stuff I read there before I make any larger evaluations of it.

In my experience (see, there's my disclaimer) psychiatrist-parents go wrong in a very specific way. They judge behavior, not the person. It sounds like a good thing, I know. For kids, it's a disaster.

The psychiatrists with children-patients handle their kids in the same way. They teach them what they are allowed to do and what they are not, what is acceptable and what is not-- but make no judgment on the kids themselves. This is a disaster, because doing this denies the kid's identity, which is the whole purpose of childhood to begin with. Rules then exist in an invented framework, or worse, in a vacuum. There's no internalization of the rules; there's no superego. Just some arbitrary limits on id.

Damn. This is a keeper.

Thanks, BTGOG