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View article: The physician-AI relationship: partnering for precision medicine via clinical decision support
The physician-AI relationship: partnering for precision medicine via clinical decision support Open
Background Clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) can enhance physician decision-making, but successful adoption depends on positive user attitudes. Understanding Israeli physicians’ attitudes toward CDSSs is crucial for overcoming impl…
View article: The Overt and Covert Psychopaths
The Overt and Covert Psychopaths Open
The covert psychopath is a compensatory mode of psychopathy, reactive to a state of collapse (inefficacy in obtaining goals). An avalanche of misinformation online by self-styled "experts" muddied the waters and the differential diagnoses …
View article: Agenda for Reframing Cluster B Personality Disorders as Disrupted Separation-Individuation and Dissociative Post-traumatic Syndromes
Agenda for Reframing Cluster B Personality Disorders as Disrupted Separation-Individuation and Dissociative Post-traumatic Syndromes Open
Recasting cluster B personality disorders as post-traumatic conditions which involve dissociation goes a long way towards resolving these outstanding conundrums.
View article: IntraPsychic Activation Model (IPAM)
IntraPsychic Activation Model (IPAM) Open
The experience of reality is comprised of data from both the external and the internal environments. The inputs are mediated, structured, and reframed via constructs which activate introjects to produce automatic thoughts. These thoughts a…
View article: Signs that You are a Victim of Narcissistic Abuse
Signs that You are a Victim of Narcissistic Abuse Open
In 1995, I coined the phrase "narcissistic abuse" to describe a type of all-pervasive and pernicious abuse that led to CPTSD in its victims.C-PTSD (Complex PTSD or complex trauma) has been proposed as a new mental health diagnosis by Dr. J…
View article: The psychopathology of fetishism and Body Integrity Dysphoria (BID)
The psychopathology of fetishism and Body Integrity Dysphoria (BID) Open
may indicate the existence of underlying mental health problems or traumas that either give rise or exacerbate fetishism.
View article: Eating Disorders and Personality Disorders
Eating Disorders and Personality Disorders Open
Eating disorders
View article: Empathy, Hot, Cold and Personality Disorders
Empathy, Hot, Cold and Personality Disorders Open
Narcissists and psychopaths lack empathy. Empathy requires both the suspension of disbelief, indeed of one’s very existence (by assuming someone else’s identity if only for a moment, like actors do) and the surrender of control (by allowin…
View article: Narcissistic Disorders of the Self as Addictions
Narcissistic Disorders of the Self as Addictions Open
Pathological narcissism is an addiction to Narcissistic Supply, the narcissist’s drug of choice. It is, therefore, not surprising that other addictive and reckless behaviours – workaholism, alcoholism, drug abuse, pathological gambling, co…