A Psychiatric Consultant's Perspective on Narcissism and Trauma

When I started working in the psychiatric hospital in 1985, there was an admission diagnostic sheet where you would see all the different personality disorders. About 1988, 1989, I noticed it all started to converge on cluster B. And then during the 90s, you only saw cluster B. Cluster B is the narcissistic cluster, so it's sociopath. BPD. Oh, it's a hundred percent of the sort of narcissism, histrionic. Now, COVID, I saw a lot ofhistrionic behavior and I had not seen a lot of histrionic prior to that,. But we'd always see the BPD, the sociopath and the narcissist. That was everybody