How Narcissist Jekyll Turns into Psychopath Hyde

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Collapse is dysregulatory and overwhelming (mortifying).

Locus of collapse (attention, sense of self-worth, goals, external regulation, object constancy).

Reaction or compensation to collapse either narcissistic-psychopathic (externalized aggression, grandiosity, entitlement) or Avoidant-schizoid.

Psychopathic protector self-state in both borderline and narcissism as well as in all covert types of personality disorders.

Experimentation with another type (overt becomes covert or schizoid and vice versa) sign of induced identity confusion.

Erikson's moratorium and identity formation.

n. in Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development, the experimental period of adolescence in which, during the task of discovering who one is as an individual separate from family of origin and as part of the broader social context, young people try out alternative roles before making permanent commitments to an identity. Adolescents who are unsuccessful at negotiating this stage risk confusion over their role in life.

Anger (righteous externalization).

Goal (impulse, instant gratification).

Rumination, obsession, self-victimization.

Self-checkmating (self-defeat, self-destructiveness): going out with a bang.

Mechanisms:

Decompensation (stress, tension, anxiety, fear/threat);

Resolve dissonance and regain mastery (sole authority) via rationalization, defiance, and externalized aggression or action;

Suspension of causality, magical thinking;

Restore ego syntony via self-audiencing and self-supply.

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