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Borderline’s Mating Strategies, Aggression Mismanaged

The video is focused on the mating strategies and aggression patterns of Cluster B personality disorders, particularly borderline personality disorder (BPD), highlighting their self-defeating behaviors and difficulty in managing aggression. It explained how borderline individuals use manipulative tactics in relationships, struggle with approach-avoidance dynamics due to misdirected aggression, and internalize their anger leading to self-destructive behaviors. The discussion emphasized the need for Cluster B patients to learn healthy externalization and sublimation of aggression through therapy and socially acceptable outlets. Borderline’s Mating Strategies, Aggression Mismanaged

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10.11.2025

Borderline’s Partner: Some Enter Healthy, Exit Mentally Ill (Starts 12:10)

The discussion focused on how individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often transform their intimate partners, even mentally healthy ones, into narcissists through a dynamic of unstable internal and external object constancy. It was explained that borderlines struggle with maintaining stable internal representations of others, leading to chaotic behaviors and emotional dysregulation, which drives partners to withdraw and develop internal objects representing the borderline, mirroring narcissistic dynamics. This cyclical interaction produces mutual avoidance and approach behaviors, perpetuating a complex and destructive relationship pattern where both parties exhibit traits of narcissism and borderline pathology. Borderline’s Partner: Some Enter Healthy, Exit Mentally Ill (Starts 12:10)

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03.11.2025

Predatory Women (Compilation 1 of 2)

The video discussed the complex interplay between borderline personality disorder, psychopathy, narcissism, and histrionic personality disorder, emphasizing trauma and dissociation as underlying factors linking these disorders. It highlighted recent research challenging traditional gender biases and explored how these disorders manifest differently in men and women, including their behavioral traits, substance abuse tendencies, and responses to treatment. The discussion also underscored the need for a unified diagnostic approach focusing on dissociation and trauma to better understand and treat cluster B personality disorders. Predatory Women (Compilation 1 of 2)

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27.10.2025

Borderline: Narcissist’s Mirror (and Avoidant Personality Disorder)

In this video, the speaker explored the psychodynamic relationship between borderline personality disorder (BPD) and narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), proposing that BPD is a mirror image of narcissism, with distinct but parallel mechanisms of control and anxiety relating to presence and absence in relationships. The discussion included differences in how both disorders manage intimacy, separation, and devaluation, as well as their avoidant and schizoid phases, contrasted with avoidant personality disorder (AvPD), which shares some symptoms but differs fundamentally in causes and behavioral responses. The speaker also illustrated avoidant personality disorder with a clinical example, emphasizing its common misdiagnosis due to overlapping traits with BPD and NPD despite distinct psychodynamic foundations.

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21.10.2025

Serial idealizers, Anxious People-pleasers, Addicts: NOT Narcissists

In this lecture, the speaker, Sam Dagny, explores misunderstood behaviors often mistaken for pathological narcissism, focusing on serial idealizers, anxious people pleasers, addicts, and individuals with borderline personality disorder. He differentiates these groups by highlighting their unique psychodynamic processes, such as the serial idealizers’ rapid fantasy creation, people pleasers’ anxiety-driven boundarylessness, addicts’ denial of control, and borderlines’ fear of abandonment and engulfment. The talk emphasizes that grandiosity, while common in narcissism, also appears in various other mental health disorders, cautioning against conflating grandiosity with narcissism itself.

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16.10.2025

Recognize Borderline Personality Disorder in Women and Mothers (The Nerve with Maureen Callahan)

The discussion focused on defining borderline personality disorder (BPD) through key traits such as innate emptiness, emotional dysregulation, suicidal ideation, chronic anger, intense and unstable relationships, and twin anxieties of abandonment and engulfment. It highlighted that not all individuals with BPD exhibit every trait, using personal childhood examples to illustrate behaviors like sudden rage and splitting within family dynamics. The complexity of BPD was emphasized, particularly the ongoing internal conflicts and relational challenges experienced by those affected.

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15.09.2025

Severe Borderline Personality Disorder in Mothers (The Nerve with Maureen Callahan)

The discussion focused on the complex dynamics of mothers with borderline personality disorder who may exhibit worsened narcissistic and psychopathic traits with age, often confusing their children with contrasting public charm and private cruelty. It was highlighted that co-morbidities such as narcissism and psychopathy, which exist on a spectrum and can manifest as functional behaviors, worsen over time and exacerbate familial challenges. The conversation also addressed the lasting psychological impact on children, who internalize feelings of inadequacy and failure due to their mother’s behavior, resulting in enduring emotional struggles.

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12.09.2025

Covert Borderline, Classic Borderline – Psychopaths?

The speaker introduced the concept of covert borderline personality disorder, distinguishing it from classic and quiet borderline types by its unique traits, particularly its prevalence in males and its confusion with covert narcissism and psychopathy. The discussion included a detailed comparison of covert borderline and classic borderline personalities across identity, emotional regulation, interpersonal relationships, cognitive style, and social functioning, referencing DSM-5 criteria and emphasizing the covert type’s distinct emotional and behavioral patterns. The speaker concluded by highlighting the covert borderline’s pursuit of love and acceptance, contrasting with the classic borderline’s emotional instability and identity diffusion, and suggested future videos to elaborate on this proposed diagnosis. Covert Borderline, Classic Borderline – Psychopaths?

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16.06.2020

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