Medicalising Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Trauma & Narcissism Redefined
Caroline Strawson
4.8 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
This episode is about the controversy around the diagnosis of a narcissist and its medicalisation. Should narcissists be medicalised? And if they should, how does it affect those who've been involved with a narcissist?
What You Will Learn In This Episode:
- The problem with medicalisation of a certain problem
- Why Complex PTSD doesn't go away with a sense of retribution
- The beauty of hindsight in the context of a relationship with a narcissist
- Why moving forward knowing the narcissist won't change is a powerful step
- How narcissism has a lot more traits than the 9 from the DSM
As a society, we are conditioned to look at the symptoms and there is not much space for considering the root cause. That's what is happening with narcissists as well. The root cause gets overlooked, and the abuse suffered by the narcissist's victims remains unacknowledged. But the solution might lie in looking at narcissists through the trauma lens.
Resources:
- Join my Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/thriveafternarcissisticabuse
- Connect with me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carolinestrawson/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the narcissistic abuse recovery podcast. I'm Caroline Stawson and I'll be sharing with you |
| 0:09.2 | awareness, understanding and education about the devastating effects of narcissistic abuse to help you thrive. |
| 0:16.8 | I want you to know that I've been exactly where you are now and I believe you. |
| 0:21.4 | And this show is all about taking you from trauma to transformation. |
| 0:30.5 | So in this episode, I want to talk to you about something that I'm going through really with my coaching cohort. So this year is the year that I have |
| 0:40.6 | launched a brand new coaching certification in narcissism informed coaching. And through the lessons, |
| 0:48.2 | the first 10 lessons, we're looking at all things narcissism and really diving deep. And one of the |
| 0:53.9 | things that we're looking at is should narcissism and really diving deep. And one of the things that we're looking at is |
| 0:55.6 | should narcissism be medicalized and is that good for those who've been involved with them |
| 1:01.3 | narcissists and perhaps is it not so good? And I think it's one of those. I remember when I spit up |
| 1:07.9 | from my ex-husband and realize that there is this thing out there, |
| 1:12.8 | firstly, narcissists, and then narcissistic personality disorder, there was an element of, |
| 1:19.9 | oh, thank goodness, it's not me, that there was a thing that he had and that in some respects |
| 1:25.8 | made me feel good, that it was medicalised, so to speak. |
| 1:30.0 | But what came with that then was an opportunity to excuse the behaviour of him, that in some way |
| 1:37.2 | he'd got a disorder and that he couldn't help the way that he was treating me. |
| 1:43.0 | Now that may well be the case. However, |
| 1:45.3 | it doesn't make it right. And because we have now medicalized narcissistic personality disorder |
| 1:51.5 | in the DSM, so the DSM is the diagnostic and statistical manual for mental disorders. And it's a book |
| 2:00.6 | that mental health professionals like psychiatrists |
| 2:03.4 | and clinicians will use to diagnose mental disorders such as personality disorders like |
| 2:11.3 | listed in their narcissistic personality disorder now for a clinician to diagnosePD, they have a series of nine traits that they |
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