The pathology in the family courts is a persecutory delusion surrounding the collapse of a narcissistic-borderline personality parent.
I wish I could give you an example of what a persecutory delusion surrounding the collapse of a narcissistic or borderline personality looks like.
I wonder where I could find a good example to show you what the collapse of a narcissistic or borderline personality into a persecutory delusion looks like?
I can provide you with a quote from the top-tier expert in personality disorders, Theodore Millon (2011):
From Millon: “Under conditions of unrelieved adversity and failure, narcissists may decompensate into paranoid disorders. Owing to their excessive use of fantasy mechanisms, they are disposed to misinterpret events and to construct delusional beliefs… Among narcissists, delusions often take form after a serious challenge or setback has upset their image of superiority and omnipotence. They tend to exhibit compensatory grandiosity and jealousy delusions in which they reconstruct reality to match the image they are unable or unwilling to give up. Delusional systems may also develop as a result of having felt betrayed and humiliated. Here we may see the rapid unfolding of persecutory delusions and an arrogant grandiosity characterized by verbal attacks and bombast.” (Millon, 2011, pp. 407-408).
Quotes are nice, but I wish I had an actual example from outside the family courts regarding what the collapse of a narcissistic or borderline personality into a persecutory delusion looks like.
Do you know what would be even better? If the example was of a shared persecutory delusion from the collapse of a narcissistic or borderline personality. That would be perfect.
Where can I possibly find an example of a narcissistic personality collapsing into a persecutory delusion, and who then induces this persecutory delusion in a more vulnerable mind, creating a shared persecutory delusion… just like in the family courts?
I suspect that would be pretty useful in explaining the pathology in the family courts, if I could not only provide quotes from top-tier professional experts, but if I could also provide an example from our everyday world of the collapse of a narcissistic or borderline personality into a persecutory delusion – induced into a vulnerable mind of trust to create a shared persecutory delusion.
Too bad there’s not an example of the pathology in the family courts that’s readily available for explanation. I think that would be very helpful… at least for some.
An encapsulated shared persecutory delusion is not a rare diagnosis, it’s just rarely diagnosed. It’s actually more common than you might suspect. I wish I had an example I could provide you from our everyday life.
If you look, you may find an example on your own of the collapse of a narcissistic or borderline personality into persecutory delusions, and perhaps, if you’re lucky, the pathological narcissist will induce the persecutory delusion in those who are vulnerable to manipulation because they trust, creating a shared persecutory delusion.
Perhaps, if you are really lucky, you’ll be able to find an example of a Dark Triad personality creating a shared persecutory delusion in those who are vulnerable to the Machiavellian manipulation of the Dark Triad because they trust.
That would be so useful to explain the triad of features – not only narcissistic personality pathology – but also psychopathic (deceitful and lack of remorse) – and Machiavellian levels of manipulation, off-the-chart manipulative.
That would be an excellent example of the pathology in the family courts – a Dark Triad collapsing into a persecutory delusion after the exposure of their inadequacy – like a divorce – intolerable rejection – who then induces the persecutory delusion into more vulnerable minds of trust, creating a shared persecutory delusion.
What a perfect example that would be.
Too bad I don’t have an example I could show you that displays so precisely in detail the pathology in the family courts.
Craig Childress, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist, CA PSY 18857
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