May 1, 2017.
The “as if” personalities could go unnoticed. The individuals presenting this disorder indeed have a profile, in appearance, quite normal. But it is precisely because they are too so that they become worrying.
“Hypernormal” and therefore totally abnormal people
You may recognize this profile among your relatives or acquaintances. Those people who give the impression that everything is always going well, that problems, when they have them, slip over them. Totally normal in appearance, they are often the envy of those to whom life smiles just as normally, that is to say not every day! And yet, behind this amiable facade, can hide many wounds that Le Figaro recently addressed in a survey conducted on the subject.
In this article, Le Figaro talks about the “everything is fine” syndrome. But scientifically, these personalities have a name which was defined in the 1940s by the psychoanalyst Helene Deutsch under the term “as if” (“as if”). According to the researcher, this form of personality, qualified as “pathological”, reveals a facade of normality, ” even a hypernormality, contrasting with a certain poverty of emotional life and with defenses dominated by intellectualization “.
An emotional deficiency during childhood at the origin of this personality disorder
What is he really hiding behind these overly smiling personalities? Le Figaro quotes the psychiatrist and psychologist Serban Ionescu who, in his book Resilience, resemblances in diversity, speaks of an attitude which would be none other than that of the defense. ” In order to restore his good functioning and his psychic balance, the person rearranges reality, both around him and in him », He explains. ” She can go so far as to distort a medical diagnosis that has just been given to her, for example, and having auditory hallucinations causing her to confuse one term with another simply because she cannot hear it “, Can we still read on the site of the daily.
For the many researchers who have looked into the subject, this type of behavior, described as “prepsychotic”, originates from an emotional deprivation suffered during childhood and can be considered dangerous. The profound lack of affect of these personalities can indeed make the bed of a sociopathic or psychopathic character.
Sybille Latour
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