A short while ago, we added a Spanish translation of Dr Carver’s well known article on identifying ‘losers’ in relationships, and we now have new translations available of two of Dr Carver’s other popular articles — on Stockholm Syndrome and on understanding personality disorders in relationships.

To help our server deliver a snappier response time for the thousands of readers of our threads on Dr Carver’s ‘Loser’ article — the most recent of which has attracted over 350 new comments, we’re going to open this new thread and close the previous one. Combined with around 175 questions on personality disorders submitted to the ‘Ask the Psychologist’ service, we’ve now had over 1000 questions and comments from readers affected by this topic.

Despite frequent social sanctions, aggressive personalities often persist in their aggressive defiance of society’s rules and limits.

Many readers will know the work of our Consulting Clinical Psychologist Dr Carver work on dealing with personality disorders in relationships. His popular article on identifying ‘losers’ in relationships has now been professionally translated into Spanish.

By far the most limiting aspect of traditional approaches to understanding the most character-disturbed individuals among us is that purely behavioral descriptions don’t capture the essence of what is unhealthy and problematic in them.

Aggressive personalities are fundamentally at war with anything that stands in the way of their unrestrained pursuit of their desires.

Splitting refers to the unconscious failure to integrate aspects of self or others into a unified whole. The age old conscious and deliberate game of “dividing and conquering” is not the same as splitting.