{"quotes":[{"text":"Narcissistic personality disorder is named for Narcissus, from Greek mythology, who fell in love with his own reflection. Freud used the term to describe persons who were self-absorbed, and psychoanalysts have focused on the narcissist's need to bolster his or her self-esteem through grandiose fantasy, exaggerated ambition, exhibitionism, and feelings of entitlement.","author":"Donald W. Black","tags":["entitlement","fantasy","grandiose","greek-mythology","mythology","narcissism","narcissist","narcissistic","narcissus","personality-disorder","self-absorbed"],"id":11842,"author_id":"Donald+W.+Black"},{"text":"Whoever controls the money controls you.","author":"Sharon Law Tucker","tags":["control","controlling-partner","life","manipulation","money","money","personality-disorder","personality-disorders","on-money","on-relationships","relationship","relationships","sociopath","sociopaths","sociopathy","toxic-people"],"id":291737,"author_id":"Sharon+Law+Tucker"},{"text":"The hatred that vibrated beneath the surface of my girl's face-- I think Suzanne recognized it. Of course my hand would anticipate the weight of a knife. The particular give of a human body. There was so much to destroy.","author":"Emma Cline","tags":["anger","cult","cults","darkness","destroy","destruction","evil","evilness","hate","hatred","knife","manson-murders","murder","personality-disorder"],"id":392658,"author_id":"Emma+Cline"},{"text":"A personality disorder is not the foreign presence of demonic possession or a cancerous cluster of cells spreading among the internal organs. It is a pattern of cognition and reaction that impares the capacity to be productive, happy and generally at ease. It is a fractured sense of self giving way to the weight of stressful interpersonal dynamics.","author":"Merri Lisa Johnson","tags":["mental-health","mental-illness","personality-disorder"],"id":393116,"author_id":"Merri+Lisa+Johnson"},{"text":"Please don't talk to me like I'm crazy. I've been accused of personality disorders enough this week, thanks. You know I've slept with girls before and didn't get attached.","author":"Pat Shand","tags":["coffee","crazy","destiny","lesbian","lgbtqia-characters","logan","narcissism","one-night-stand","pat-shand","personality-disorder","romance"],"id":440804,"author_id":"Pat+Shand"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}