Narcissism with Sam Vaknin

Are we human because of unique traits and attributes not shared with either animal or machine? The definition of "human" is circular: we are human by virtue of the properties that make us human (i.e., distinct from animal and machine). It is a definition by negation: that which separates us from animal and machine is our "human-ness". We are human because we are not animal, nor machine. But such thinking has been rendered progressively less tenable by the advent of evolutionary and neo-evolutionary theories which postulate a continuum in nature between animals and Man. Our uniqueness is partly quantitative and partly qualitative. Many animals are capable of cognitively manipulating symbols and using tools. Few are as adept at it as we are. These (two of many) are easily quantifiable differences. Qualitative differences are a lot more difficult to substantiate. In the absence of privileged access to the animal mind, we cannot and don't know if animals feel guilt, for instance. Do animals love? Do they have a concept of sin? What about object permanence, meaning, reasoning, self-awareness, critical thinking? Individuality? Emotions? Empathy? Is artificial intelligence (AI) an oxymoron? A machine that passes the Turing Test may well be described as "human". But is it really? And if it is not - why isn't it? Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3

The narcissist is an inverted human: his unconscious is conscious and parts of his conscious are repressed. Fantasy replaces his missing ego and it is the language mediating between his conscious and unconscious. Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3

Giving doesn't always make people happy. It cannot guarantee that you will be loved or accepted. Your style of giving makes all the difference: giving ostentatiously can even create resentment and humiliation in the "beneficiaries". Transactional giving is perceived as a form of blackmail: give in order to take. True giving is no strings attached: it comes from the heart, not from the wallet; it is about helping others, not about aggrandizing yourself. Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3

A review of 17 treatment modalities (therapies) used to tackle Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and co-diagnosed (comorbid) mental health conditions. Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3

Mirror image of separating-individuating from the narcissist in the wake of narcissistic abuse Engulfment anxiety and dependency cause the borderline to cast you as an abuser Admit your contributions as an intimate partner (mate selection, for example, or savior-rescuer complex) I am not an abuser: your authentic voice, get rid of guilt and shame Borderlines parentify: Get rid of the maternal function in the shared fantasy Hand over ownership, regulation Separation: silence your voice in her mind, enhance her authentic voice What about individuation? Once your voice is silenced, both external regulator (“abuser”) and savior, mother and child are gone. Authentic voice is disembodied. Embodying. Individuation requires mind-body work: owning your voice also by connecting it to your body. Reconstituting three lost functions: self-mothering (self-love), self-saving (agency), choosing and affirming life (negating depression, anxiety, catastrophizing, and ANTS) Watch Take These 4 Steps BEFORE Therapy for Narcissistic Abuse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAE_z8gD5-8 Watch Love Yourself: Here’s How - or, The Four Pillars of Self-love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vzBf9QvClo Watch Decode, Heal Your Mind with IPAM (Intrapsychic Activation Model) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTfpJ3RHf7g Watch Hijacked by Narcissist’s Serpent Voice? Do THIS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT7pQ35LYlU Watch Take Your Life Back, Own It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUggi8tRTbE Watch Go to Your Desert, Listen to Your Inner Silence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOh-iOaWTt8 Watch How to Individuate, Heal from Narcissistic Abuse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3gmcbWsyBM Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3

Everything you need to know about bonding and attachment: from secure to insecure and flat styles. Can you modify your attachment style? Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3

Narcissist: Abuser-savior, death-life, punitive-mother duality Separation: silencing narcissist’s voice in your mind What about individuation? Once narcissist’s voice silenced, both abuser and savior, mother and child are gone. Authentic voice is disembodied. Embodying. Individuation requires mind-body work: owning your voice also by connecting it to your body. Reconstituting three lost functions: self-mothering (self-love), self-saving (agency), choosing and affirming life (negating depression, anxiety, catastrophizing, and ANTS) Watch Take These 4 Steps BEFORE Therapy for Narcissistic Abuse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAE_z8gD5-8 Watch Love Yourself: Here’s How - or, The Four Pillars of Self-love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vzBf9QvClo Watch Decode, Heal Your Mind with IPAM (Intrapsychic Activation Model) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTfpJ3RHf7g Watch Hijacked by Narcissist’s Serpent Voice? Do THIS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT7pQ35LYlU Watch Take Your Life Back, Own It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUggi8tRTbE Watch Go to Your Desert, Listen to Your Inner Silence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOh-iOaWTt8 Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3

Substances such as cocaine and alcohol can render you a full-fledged narcissist for a few hours. Fame, power, money can accomplish the same startling transformation for years (Acquired Situational Narcissism). 1. Cocaine Intoxication, Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry (Sixth Edition), 2010 2. Levy, M. S. (1989). Grandiosity within alcoholism: Implications for treatment. Psychotherapy Patient, 5(3-4), 173–180. https://doi.org/10.1300/J358v05n03_17 3. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology Addicted to Self-esteem: Understanding the neurochemistry of narcissism by using cocaine as a pharmacological model Alina Kastner-Bosek https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8383-2838 office@alinakastner.com, Irena Dajic, and Matthäus Willeit https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8418-6188 https://doi.org/10.1177/20438087211044362 4. Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissism: Associations with Alcohol Use, Alcohol Problems and Problem Recognition Logan E. Welker, B.A.,* Raluca M. Simons, PhD, and Jeffrey S. Simons, PhD J Am Coll Health. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2020 Apr 1. Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Health. 2019 Apr; 67(3): 226–234. Published online 2018 Sep 19. doi: 10.1080/07448481.2018.1470092 5. Linda Brannon and Jess Feist, Health Psychology, An Introduction to Behavior and Health, Sixth Edition, Thomson Wadsworth (2007) Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3

Yesterday, I cancelled an interview with a journalist who repeated the feeble-minded canard about thousands of NATO troops who have died fighting for Ukraine, how Russia’s military is well run and triumphant, and how the West instigated the war for its own ends. When I hung up on her she called my conduct idiotic and blamed me for being a part of the cancel culture. So much for her research skills: I may well be the former (idiot), but by no stretch of the imagination am I the latter. Increasingly, useful idiots (useful fools) in the West – journalists, businessmen, public intellectuals, academics, politicians, and lobbyists - parrot the Kremlin’s propaganda bullet points. The global wave of populist contumacious and self-hating anti-elitism rendered these otherwise risible conspiracy theorists instant stars. It is not that the West is blameless or that Ukrainians are saints – it is not and they are not. Both provoked Russia mightily and repeatedly. Poking nuclear armed bears has predictable consequences and the outcomes are neither pleasant nor sustainable. The West is fighting a proxy war to contain the emerging Russia-China axis and its BRICS corollary. Ukraine was less than benevolent with its Russian-speaking minority. Far right groups gained too much sway in the politics and economy of a corrupt Ukraine. Both parties committed war crimes. All true. But only one side committed crimes against humanity. And only one side started an open, total war (incidentally, granting an ever more united West the perfect pretext to encroach on Russian borders). Russia is the aggressor in this war against civilians. I am saying Russia and not Putin or his inner circle because the vast majority of Russians support Putin the same way the vast majority of Germans adored Hitler who could do no wrong in their eyes. Public intellectuals have an obligation to make sacrifices and assume personal risks when faced with injustice or evil. I have gone through the same ordeal in Macedonia, having confronted and criticized two regimes. Watch this video about four types of (Macedonian) public intellectuals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMQK4mWFnv8 When the war started, I did not renew my appointment as visiting professor of psychology in Southern Federal University in Rostov on Don in Russia. I spent 5 wonderful years there and was heartbroken to have to give up the whole thing. Rostov has become a main staging ground for this heartless botched Blietzkrieg. I could not in good faith even be seen to support Russia. More here: http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/rebuttal.html When I was approached by Dr. Rajeev Fernando of Harvard Medical School and the charity Chiraj.org and the indomitable Cheriekah Ramirez I immediately volunteered to offer my help to the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine and the first lady of Ukraine. I was asked to train Ukrainian mental health practitioners on how to treat PTSD among raped women, orphaned children, and dazed soldiers. Watch an Interview I gave to Newsweek Romania about PTSD among Ukraine’s population Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvhsNp1C5ZQ Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaR7E5a42tI My Russian friends and Russia as a state were not happy with my “betrayal”. A month after the war started, I gave an interview to Izvestia, an informal mouthpiece of the Russian state. I criticized the way the war was handled, predicted a stalemate, and advocated for limited goals. Setting up the interview with Izvestia – click HERE: http://samvak.tripod.com/izvestia.zip The interview with Izvestia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pabcLbgLE-c As the war and its atrocities progressed, I became way more critical of Putin, calling him a hypochondriac narcissist and a psychopath and exposing the clandestine workings of his inner circle as I came to know them in my 6 Russian years. Watch the interview I granted to RTL TV is Hungary English https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSFm09K2tIU Hungarian https://rtl.hu/fokusz/2022/10/27/sam-vaknin-pszichologia-professzor-vlagyimir-putyin-mentalis-allapota-haboru I fully expect retaliation. When not poisoned or shot outright, Russia's adversaries are accused of a bewildering array of economic crimes or personal peccadillos ("kompromat"). But I cannot keep silent in good faith. No one can or should. What is happening in Ukraine is plain wrong. It must stop. Everyone agrees, even Russia’s allies such as China. Putin painted himself into a corner: defeat in Ukraine spells his demise, political and maybe physical. He is fighting for his survival on the trampled and bloodied bodies of children and women. His acolytes are sycophantic but fickle. So he is driven to escalate, crossing the thin line between geopolitics and evil. And here, on this thin line, all of us should stand firm and exclaim: no pasaran! They shall not pass.

The narcissist's voice is in your head. It will coopt and compromise your therapy - and, often, your therapist. Do this BEFORE you attend therapy for narcissistic abuse. Daria Zukowka's (clinical psychologist) channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl_hm5r5Osb818eIB5t7j-g Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3

There is one telltale difference between narcissists and psychopaths in relationships. Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3

Narcissist - or merely narcissistic? Use these tests to decide (some of these tests should be administered only by a qualified diagnostician). Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3

The market and its price mechanism - critically depends on trust. If people do not trust each other, or the economic "envelope" within which they interact (“preemptive mistrust”), economic activity gradually grinds to a halt. There is a strong correlation between the general level of trust and the extent and intensity of economic activity. Francis Fukuyama, the political scientist, distinguishes between high-trust and prosperous societies and low-trust and, therefore, impoverished collectives. Trust underlies economic success, he argued in a 1995 tome. Trust is not a monolithic quantity. There are a few categories of economic trust. Some forms of trust are akin to a public good and are closely related to governmental action or inaction, the reputation of the state and its institutions, and its pronounced agenda. Other types of trust are the outcomes of kinship, ethnic origin, personal standing and goodwill, corporate brands and other data generated by individuals, households, and firms. Such information creates two types of output: reinforced trust (where behaviour matches expectations) and “inductive distrust” (where behaviour frustrates expectations). Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3

Shame is a powerful, defining dynamic in vulnerable, fragile, shy, covert narcissism. Not so in the grandiose-overt variant. Time to redefine pathological narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)? LITERATURE 1. Shame and its relationship to early narcissistic developments F Broucek International journal of psycho-analysis (1982).International Journal of Psychoanalysis ,63():369-378 2. Andrew P. Morrison (1983) Shame, Ideal Self, and Narcissism, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 19:2, 295-318, DOI: 10.1080/00107530.1983.10746610 3. Wurmser, L. (1987). Shame: The veiled companion of narcissism. In D. L. Nathanson (Ed.), The many faces of shame (pp. 64–92). The Guilford Press. Morrison, A. P., & Stolorow, R. D. (1997). Shame, narcissism, and intersubjectivity. In M. R. Lansky & A. P. Morrison (Eds.), The widening scope of shame (pp. 63–87). Analytic Press. 4. Gramzow, R., & Tangney, J. P. (1992). Proneness to Shame and the Narcissistic Personality. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 18(3), 369–376. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167292183014 5. Pincus AL, Ansell EB, Pimentel CA, Cain NM, Wright AGC, Levy KN. Initial construction and validation of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory. Psychol Assess. 2009 Sep;21(3):365-379. doi: 10.1037/a0016530. PMID: 19719348. 6. Cain NM, Pincus AL, Ansell EB. Narcissism at the crossroads: phenotypic description of pathological narcissism across clinical theory, social/personality psychology, and psychiatric diagnosis. Clin Psychol Rev. 2008 Apr;28(4):638-56. doi: 10.1016/j.cpr.2007.09.006. Epub 2007 Oct 2. PMID: 18029072. 7. Kathrin Ritter, Aline Vater, Nicolas Rüsch, Michela Schröder-Abé, Astrid Schütz, Thomas Fydrich, Claas-Hinrich Lammers, Stefan Roepke, Shame in patients with narcissistic personality disorder, Psychiatry Research, Volume 215, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 429-437, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2013.11.019 8. Hibbard, S. (1992). Narcissism, shame, masochism, and object relations: An exploratory correlational study. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 9(4), 489–508. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0079392 9. Elena Bilevicius, Darren C. Neufeld, Alanna Single, Melody Foot, Michael Ellery, Matthew T. Keough, Edward A. Johnson, Vulnerable narcissism and addiction: The mediating role of shame, Addictive Behaviors, Volume 92, 2019, Pages 115-121, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.12.035 Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3

Everything you wanted to know about Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and didn't dare ask the borderline: from switching between self-states to identity disturbance and intimate relationships. Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3

Watch Central Banks in Bed with Commercial Banks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii2psLfOqOY Banks are institutions where miracles happen regularly. We rarely entrust our money to anyone but ourselves – and our banks. Despite a very chequered history of mismanagement, corruption, false promises and representations, delusions and behavioural inconsistency – banks still succeed to motivate us to give them our money. Partly it is the feeling that there is safety in numbers. The fashionable term today is "moral hazard". The implicit guarantees of the state and of other financial institutions move us to take risks which we would, otherwise, have avoided. Partly it is the sophistication of the banks in marketing and promoting themselves and their products. Glossy brochures, professional computer and video presentations and vast, shrine-like, real estate complexes all serve to enhance the image of the banks as the temples of the new religion of money.

When you break up with the narcissist, you literally fall apart. To end your grieving is to acknowledge and accept the loss of an object - but that object is YOU. You cannot get over your bereavement because you are mourning yourself. At first, during the lovebombing and grooming phase, the narcissist offers you unconditional love, as a mother would. Then he idealizes you and causes you to become infatuated with your own idealized image. He invites you into a simulation, a paracosm, a shared fantasy where you merge/fuse into a single selfobject. Then he withdraws all these. He cancels YOU. Smear campaign debunked https://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/rebuttal.html Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3

Watch Transgender, Transsexual: Biology or Society? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3ZFlv8ajKA There are no rigorous studies of gender dysphoria. None. We know nothing about why adolescents (and even children) wish to transition and what happens to them after they do. Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3

In relationships, borders are like membranes: they allow in only selective types of communication, they require protocols and rituals, and are policed by cultural and societal mores. Borders are, therefore, interpersonal and dyadic. Boundaries are individual. Personal boundaries are rules of conduct, red lines in the sand any infringement and breach of which you deem unacceptable behavior. You need to set your boundaries clearly, unequivocally, and unambiguously firstly to yourself: how to protect your dignity, privacy, freedom, rights, and priorities. You then need to communicate your boundaries to your partner replete with a "price list": the costs associated with ignoring or violating them. Finally, you need to be firm and enforce your boundaries: your credibility depends on a consistent and fair application of these rules of engagement. The ability to thrive in intimacy is inextricably linked to the capacity to maintain and enforce personal boundaries. In personality disordered patients, both are sorely compromised. Intimacy, however fleeting and of whatever nature (even merely physical) is a tightrope act. On the one hand, it involves the disclosure of vulnerabilities and the relaxation of firewalls intended to fend off unwarranted or coerced attention. On the other hand, real intimacy entails the maintaining of personal autonomy, agency, and self-efficacy. In other words: of separateness. To attain intimacy, one needs to feel sufficiently secure of one’s core identity, self-worth, self-esteem, internal regulation, and boundaries to invite another person in. The mentally ill tend to enmesh, engulf, merge, or fuse with others - even as they push them away and flee (approach-avoidance repetition compulsion). This dysfunctional attachment style is the outcome of twin contradictory anxieties: of abandonment and of engulfment.   Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3

In today's sick civilization, narcissism is rewarded and narcissists (and psychopaths) are the only winners. So, if you love your children and want them to succeed, raise them to become raging, flaming, malignant narcissists! Pathological narcissism is a reaction to prolonged abuse and trauma in early childhood or early adolescence. The source of the abuse or trauma is immaterial - the perpetrators could be parents, teachers, other adults, or peers. Pampering, smothering, spoiling, and "engulfing" the child are also forms of abuse. Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3

Only the external environment matters: it triggers the internal one. Watch Why Narcissists Can't Think Straight (Constructs, Introjects, Memories, Defenses) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u_1GoFA3Ig Watch Why People-pleasers Can't Think Straight (Self-states, Constructs, Introjects) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Dp4KMyreA Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3

The narcissist's entrained voice (introject) controls your mind long after he is gone from your life. Here is how to get rid of it. Also watch "Deprogram the Narcissist in Your Mind" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCKm2lywhZg Narcissistic Abuse Recovery: First Separate, Individuate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95QBUV9CR_4 SECRET Reason Narcissist Devalues, Discards YOU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi3PjMeV1xw How Narcissist Steals Your Unconscious, Lures YOU into His Nightmare World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuR2p6VIUec Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3

The twin theories of structural dissociation and betrayal trauma provide a profound insight into the formation of cluster B personality disorders. Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3

Autoplastic defenses Blaming oneself for the consequences and outcomes of one’s own choices and decisions as well as for the outcomes of the choices that others make and even for circumstances beyond one’s control. A common type of defense in neuroses. Alloplastic defenses Blaming others for the predictable consequences and outcomes of your own choices and decisions. A feature of cluster B disorders. Examples of alloplastic defenses: “It is their fault, they made me do it”, “They should have been more careful or less gullible”. Even characters flaws which are rarely associated with psychopathy and narcissism – actually are. Example: There are many people who people pleasers and other people who are emotionally dysregulated or delusional or paranoid or narcissistic or passive aggressive or depressive or anxious or … But all these psychopathologies are often excuses or covers for psychopathic, immoral, antisocial, and narcissistic acts and misconduct. It is a unique combination of both alloplastic and autoplastic defenses. “Poor me, I am actually the victim of my own proclivities, weaknesses, mental illnesses, and character flaws! People are leveraging and taking advantage of my frailties! I never do wrong! I am never to blame! I am never responsible for my actions! There are higher internal forces at work!” The need to believe in the essential goodness of people, that the world is essentially just and structured is a bit naïve, of course. Another need is to not feel like a victim: we don’t want to feel stupid, that our judgment is wrong, to suspect that we misapprehend people, that we can and do fall in the hands of predators. These needs result in a cognitive dissonance when people we have trusted and role models misbehave or betray us: a great unease, a sense of discomfort, an inner conflict. To allay this, we deceive ourselves in order to mitigate, ameliorate, and overcome this internal upset when we are confronted with the truth. We lie to ourselves, reframe. So we say: "She is flawed, weak, human, means well, mentally ill, and so in need of love!” or “She is a people pleaser, emotionally dysregulated, depressed, anxious, delusional, or labile”. Dissonance gone. In reality though, she did victimize you, damage you, prey on you. But she did not mean to, it is not her fault. It was stronger than her, you see. This is coupled with grandiose autoplastic defenses, the tendency to blame yourself for anything that goes wrong because you need to feel in control: if she acted immorally, it was all my fault, I made her do it, I caused it to happen, I am not the victim, I am the victimizer and the abuser. So, everything is fine: I am the one who talk advantage of the character flaws and mental illness of others, reducing any hero to a common zero. I am still safe and in charge. Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3

Personality disorders is the fastest transforming field in psychology. The cutting edge research in the field of cluster B personality disorders is presented and analyzed in a lecture in Corvinus University, Budapest, January 24, 2023. This is a bootleg recording. Hungarian Language Materials Announcement: https://www.uni-corvinus.hu/post/event/sam-vaknin-eloadasa-b-klaszter-szemelyisegzavarok-ujragondolva/ Lecture Summary: https://www.uni-corvinus.hu/post/hir/narcizmus-a-felnott-testbe-zart-gyerek/ Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3