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The Sadistic Patient - A Case Study
"Personality Disorders Revisited" (450 pages e-book) - click HERE to purchase!
By: Dr. Sam Vaknin
Disclaimer
The Sadistic personality disorder was included in the DSM III-TR but removed from the DSM IV and from its text revision, the DSM IV-TR. This was criticized by some scholars, notably Theodore Millon.
Notes of first therapy session with Jared, male, 43, diagnosed with Sadistic Personality Disorder
"A little discipline never hurt nobody." - repeats Jared, clearly amused. Beating a three year old and letting her freeze to near death on your doorstep in subzero temperatures, is this his idea of discipline? "It's one way or getting the message across" - Jared laughs heartily and then composes himself: "Listen, Doc, I am as merciful and compassionate as they come, believe you me. But what I can't stand is cry-babies, weaklings, and whining bitches. Besides, it's fun to see how a little ice does wonders to their sirens."
Why did he force the mother to dump her by now limp and profusely bleeding infant daughter outside the door? If she were a proper caretaker none of this would have happened. He wanted to show her wretched family who is the only boss in the household. "They were getting on my nerves, her mother and sister. They needed some re-education, like in them Chinese camps."- he chuckles. They all claim to be terrified of him and intimidated by his capricious and violent behavior. "I sure hope so!" - he smirks.
The kid says that you pinched her repeatedly and that's why she cried. "I was just kidding with her." Pinching hurts. "Sure does!" - he roars and slaps my shoulder across the desk - "I like you, Doc!" The slap hurt, too. Could he please refrain from doing it in the future? "Whatever turns you own, ma'shrink" - he accepts my interdict jovially.
The mother says that about a year ago you beat the same child and caused her grave injuries because she wouldn't cry when you pinched her and kicked her around. You kept yelling "cry, you bitch, cry." Then you mauled her because she wouldn't cry and now you spanked her because she did cry. "She has to make up her mind and stick to it. I respect that. But she can't change her behavior every time I pinch her. That's why I disciplined her. I want her to have a spine." It seems to me that he is the one who keeps changing the rules. his face darken and he leans forward, whispering hoarsely:
"I like you, Doc, and all - but don't cross the line here or you may get a taste of the same medicine yourself." Is this a threat? He merely glowers at me malevolently. Doesn't he like me any more? "(Expletive deleted) off."
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Click on these links to learn more:
Sadistic Personality Disorder
The Narcissist as a Sadist
Other People's Pain (Narcissism, Sadism, and Masochism)
The Misanthropic Altruist (Philanthropy as Sadistic Narcissism)
Case Studies
The Narcissist
The Psychopath
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The Borderline
The Schizoid
The Histrionic
The Avoidant
The Schizotypal
The Obsessive-Compulsive
The Dependent
The Masochist
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The Syphilitic Narcissist
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First published here: "Personality Disorders (Suite101)"
By: Dr. Sam Vaknin
It is common knowledge that brain disorders, injuries, and traumas are sometimes misdiagnosed as mental health problems. But what about "run of the mill" organic medical conditions? Syphilis provides a fascinating glimpse into the convoluted world of differential diagnoses: the art of telling one form of illness from another.
Syphilis is a venereal (sexually transmitted) disease. It has a few stages and involves unpleasant phenomena such as lesions and skin eruptions. Syphilis can go dormant (latent) for years or even decades before it affects the brain in a condition known as general paresis. Brain tissue is gradually destroyed by the tiny organisms that cause syphilis, the spirochetes. This progressive devastation causes mania, dementia, megalomania (delusions of grandeur), and paranoia.
Even when its existence is suspected, syphilis is difficult to diagnose. Most mental health clinicians are unlikely to try to rule it out. Syphilis in its tertiary (brain consuming) phase produces symptoms that are easily misdiagnosed as Bipolar Disorder combined with the Narcissistic and the Paranoid Personality Disorders.
Syphilitic patients in the tertiary stage are often described as brutal, suspicious, delusional, moody, irritable, raging, lacking empathy, grandiose, and demanding. They are indecisive and absorbed in irrelevant detail one moment and irresponsibly and manically impulsive the next. They exhibit disorganized thinking, transient false beliefs, mental rigidity, and obsessive-compulsive repetitive behaviors.
Fritz Redlich, retired Dean of the Yale Department of Psychiatry published "Hitler: Diagnosis of a Destructive Prophet" in 1998. In it, he describes the final stages of general neurosyphilitic paresis:
"... (S)igns and symptoms (include) rapid mental deterioration, psychotic and usually absurdly grandiose behavior..." (p. 231)
Misdiagnosing the Bipolar Disorder as Narcissistic Personality Disorder - click on this link
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Misdiagnosing Asperger's Disorder as Narcissistic Personality Disorder - click on this link
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Misdiagnosing General Anxiety Disorder (GAD) as Narcissistic Personality Disorder - click on this link
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AUTHOR BIO:
Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West Lost the East. He served as a columnist for Global Politician, Central Europe Review, PopMatters, Bellaonline, and eBookWeb, a United Press International (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent, and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101.
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