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  • Psychoanalysis: What is the Main Character Syndrome?

    Psychoanalysis: What is the Main Character Syndrome?

    Written by Abdullah Qureshi Have you ever felt that you are the hero/heroine of your story? Do you feel as if everything in your world has an effect on your ‘story’? Or, let me put it this way: have you ever felt that you are completely different from everyone around you? If you have felt…

  • Diagnostic Features of Narcissistic Personality Disorder

    Diagnostic Features of Narcissistic Personality Disorder

    Written by Najwa Bashir Narcissism Book III of Ovid’s Metamorphoses is where the word “narcissism” was first used. There is a story that Narcissus falls in love with his own image because of a curse. Narcissism, on the other hand, wasn’t used in psychology until the late 1800s (Mitra et al., 2024). Northcote (1929) says…