I spent this last summer rolling across America in a pickup driven by my unflappable hubby Phil, who I met twenty-five years ago at the South Pole Station in Antarctica.  (This means I can’t resist quipping that I had to go to the end of the earth to meet that man.)  Obviously, Phil is an adventuresome type, always game for the oddball undertaking.  So when I received an email invitation for lunch with Dr. Robert Bilder, the Director of the Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics at the Semel Institute of UCLA, we pulled up camping stakes from Millard County, Utah, home of the loneliest road in America, and puttered over to tony Malibu, where we parked our pop-up trailer on the hillside at the Malibu Beach RV Park.  I was nervous about meeting Dr. Bilder and his colleagues.  All I knew was—the Consortium for Neuropsychiatric Phenomics is doing some highly original, ground-breaking work, and I wanted to find out more.  

Contrary to common understanding, research has shown that personality dysfunctions such as paranoid or narcissistic personality