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Are covert narcissists the only real narcissists? Are over narcissists a variant of Antisocial Personality Disorder or psychopathy?

Grandiosity gap (implicit vs. explicit self-esteem), failure of compensatory functions, not structures.

Narcissistic collapse leads to a covert phase

Negative affects (shame, guilt, envy)

Borderline-like features (emotion/affective dysregulation, suicidal ideation)

Internalized bad object activation

Self-betrayal (self-harm, self-defeat)

Dysphorias: loss-induced, deficiency-induced, self-worth lability, grandiosity gap/self-concept, self-punitive

Internal vs. external reset or solutions (Libby) of self-concept, locus of grandiosity (victimhood), self-enhancing narrative: I chose and orchestrated my collapse, self-supply, devaluation of sources (alloplastic defenses)

New Pathological Narcissistic Space (PNS)

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