DOMAIN:

Power / Ego

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CORE MEANING:

Power becomes a defence against vulnerability.

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CINICAL DESCRIPTION:

A defensive condition in which the subject constructs a psychological safety through  self centrality.

Vulnerability is experienced as intolerable, so relationships are reorganised around dominance. Others become instruments through which the subject maintains an inflated and protected sense of self.

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CORE PATHOLOGY:

Addiction to self centrality.

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SYMPTOMS:

​-Grandiosity

-Reduced empathy

-Need to impose one version of events

-Identity fused with control

-Others perceived as instruments 

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PROGNOSIS:

Vulnerability is suppressed, but not resolved. Rigidity increases over time.

The ego becomes more defensive and fragile over time.