Personality Disorders
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Left Brain and Right Brain Conflict Resolution
Left Brain and Right Brain Conflict Resolution © 2026 by Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. You are meeting Mary for the first time. She is angry about something and she is…
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Violence and Mental Health
© 2022 by Bill Eddy, LCSW, JDWe live in an age of overlap between legal and mental health problems. It is frequently said that there are more people with…
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Microbiome and “Gut Feeling” in High Conflict Behavior
Microbiome and “Gut Feeling” in High Conflict Behavior © 2024 by Ekaterina Ricci, MDR The relationship between mental disorders and gut microbiome has become a…
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Domestic Violence and Personality Disorders: What’s the Connection?
Domestic Violence and Personality Disorders: What’s the Connection? © 2024 by Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. When I first had clients who were victim/survivors of…
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Playing the Victim: How Sociopaths Con Legal Professionals (and Everyone Else)
Playing the Victim: How Sociopaths Con Legal Professionals (and Everyone Else) ©2023 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. Sociopath is another word for antisocial personality…
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Personality Disorders: The New Elephant in the Room
The New Elephant in the Room:Why All Professionals Need to Learn About Personality Disorders©2023 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.In 1994, a best-selling children’s book…
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Personality Disorders Gaining Importance in Recent Legal Cases
©2020 Bill Eddy, LCSW, EsqPersonality Disorders Should be Considered in More Legal CasesA landmark case in Australia and a study in California both reached the…
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Can High-Conflict People Change?
Can High Conflict People Change? ©2019 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. This is an increasingly important question in many areas of modern life, including in love…
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7 Tips for Working with Clients with Borderline Personality Disorder
<p style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Clients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) suffer from constant “emotion dysregulation” (wide mood swings, sudden anger, unnecessary suspiciousness, inappropriately intense excitement, misplaced loving feelings, etc.), as the accompanying article by Shehrina Rooney describes. This is not something over which they have conscious control, unless they are learning to regulate their emotions in some form of therapy. In fact, such emotion dysregulation is at the heart of most of their problems in relationships, with romantic partners, family members and professionals. With this in mind, here are seven tips for those working with someone with BPD:</p>
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Is This Really a Crisis? Personality-Disorder Patterns
Is This Really a Crisis?People with Personality Disorders Often See Internal Crises as External Crises©2019 Bill Eddy LCSW, ESQ.As I wrote in my latest article…
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Walls, Wars and Parades: Understanding Narcissistic Leaders
©2019 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. WALLS: Dividing people into winners and losers.WARS: Highly defensive, the slightest criticism may send them into battle.PARADES:…
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Narcissism and Incivility: Is There a Connection?
©2018 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.Did you ever wonder where incivility comes from? Is it always what someone else is doing? It seems to have spread far and wide over…
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Sociopath HCP
©2018 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. Narcissists, Sociopaths: Similarities, Differences, Dangers According to a major study stated that almost 10% of the U.S. has…
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Sociopaths and their Deceptions
<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Sociopaths, also known as those with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), are some of the most dangerous and deceptive people you will ever know. Yet they also can be some of the most charming. That’s why they are often known as “con artists.” In this article I will give some of the basics of understanding sociopaths, including how they may deceive people in legal disputes. </p>
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Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder in Family Law Cases
Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder in Family Law Cases©2018 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.The diagnostic manual of mental disorders (DSM-5) tells us that up…
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7 Tips for Managing Your Narcissistic Boss
Dealing with a narcissistic boss? Bill Eddy shares 7 practical tips for managing a high-conflict manager while protecting your job — and your sanity.
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Living with a Histrionic Personality: Do’s and Don’ts
Theatrical, dramatic, exaggerated — recognize histrionic personality patterns and learn practical do's and don'ts for living with one, from Bill Eddy.
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Living with an Antisocial Personality: Do’s and Don’ts
© 2014 By Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.You can learn to coexist with a person with an Antisocial High Conflict Personality by following these and other tips. HAVE YOU…
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Do's and Don'ts for Living with a Borderline
© 2014 By Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. You can learn to coexist with a person with a Borderline High Conflict Personality by following these and other tips. DO YOU…
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Do's and Don'ts for Living with a Narcissist
© 2014 By Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.You can learn to coexist with a Narcissist by following these and other tips.ARE YOU INVOLVED WITH THIS PERSON?Comes off as…
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Can Borderlines Share Parenting?
Response to Article: Can Borderlines Share Parenting?© 2013 By Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.In 2010, when my book Don’t Alienate the Kids! Raising Resilient Children…
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How to Survive the Holidays with an Antisocial Relative
© 2012 By Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.[excerpted from It's All Your Fault! by Bill Eddy] Don’t Get ConnedWhile Antisocial “Con Artists” are the best at lying and…
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Con Artists at Work on Wall Street
© 2009 Megan L. Hunter, MBA Reports of financial fraud on Wall Street causing losses in the millions for many Americans have been front and center recently.…
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Personality Disorders in the News
© 2008 By Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. A new study was released Monday, December 1, in the publication, Archives of General Psychiatry. This study is the most…
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Narcissism and the Meltdown
© 2008 By Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.I don’t know if you saw an Associated Press article in your newspaper last week (10/7/08) about a Los Angeles area married man…