By Sam Vaknin / Published on April 8th, 2008 / Technology & Science
Here are some hard facts: There are gradations and shades of narcissism. The difference between two narcissists can be great. The existence of grandiosity and empathy or lack thereof are not [..]
 By Sam Vaknin / Published on April 7th, 2008 / Technology & Science
Narcissism constitutes the entire personality. It is all-pervasive. Being a narcissist is akin to being an alcoholic but much more so. Alcoholism is an impulsive behaviour. Narcissists exhibit [..]
 By Sam Vaknin / Published on April 7th, 2008 / Technology & Science
But the unconscious is as much a part of one's self-identity as one's conscious. What if, due to a mishap, the roles were reversed? What if Dan's conscious part were to become his unconscious [..]
 By Sam Vaknin / Published on April 7th, 2008 / Technology & Science
I. Exposition In the movie "Shattered" (1991), Dan Merrick survives an accident and develops total amnesia regarding his past. His battered face is reconstructed by plastic surgeons and, with [..]
 By Sam Vaknin / Published on April 7th, 2008 / Technology & Science
There is one place in which one's privacy, intimacy, integrity and inviolability are guaranteed - one's body, a unique temple and a familiar territory of sensa and personal history. The torturer [..]
 By Sam Vaknin / Published on April 6th, 2008 / Technology & Science
To a narcissist-employer, the members of his "staff" are Secondary Sources of Narcissistic Supply. Their role is to accumulate the supply (in human speak, remember events that support the [..]
 By Sam Vaknin / Published on April 6th, 2008 / Technology & Science
III. The Biochemistry and Genetics of Mental Health Certain mental health afflictions are either correlated with a statistically abnormal biochemical activity in the brain – or are ameliorated [..]
 By Sam Vaknin / Published on April 6th, 2008 / Technology & Science
"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let's look at the bird and see what it's [..]
 By Sam Vaknin / Published on April 5th, 2008 / Technology & Science
The Encyclopedia Britannica 2003 edition describes the formation of ovaries and testes thus: "In the young embryo a pair of gonads develop that are indifferent or neutral, showing no indication [..]
 By Sam Vaknin / Published on April 5th, 2008 / Technology & Science
Alan Pease, author of a book titled "Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps", believes that women are spatially-challenged compared to men. The British firm, Admiral Insurance, conducted [..]
 By Sam Vaknin / Published on April 5th, 2008 / Technology & Science
Countess Erszebet Bathory was a breathtakingly beautiful, unusually well-educated woman, married to a descendant of Vlad Dracula of Bram Stoker fame. In 1611, she was tried - though, being a [..]
 By Sam Vaknin / Published on April 5th, 2008 / Technology & Science
The Encyclopaedia Britannica: "... Others have argued that because even rather young children are capable of showing empathy with the pain of others, the inhibition of aggressive behaviour [..]
 By Sam Vaknin / Published on April 4th, 2008 / Technology & Science
The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1999 edition) defines empathy as: "The ability to imagine oneself in anther's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. It is a term [..]
 By Sam Vaknin / Published on April 4th, 2008 / Technology & Science
Pathological narcissism is an addiction to Narcissistic Supply, the narcissist's drug of choice. It is, therefore, not surprising that other addictive and reckless behaviours – workaholism, [..]
 By Sam Vaknin / Published on April 4th, 2008 / Technology & Science
The a-priori nature of intuitions of the first and the third kind led thinkers, such as Adolf Lasson, to associate it with Mysticism. He called it an "intellectual vision" which leads to the [..]
 By Sam Vaknin / Published on April 3th, 2008 / Technology & Science
I. The Three Intuitions IA. Eidetic Intuitions Intuition is supposed to be a form of direct access. Yet, direct access to what? Does it access directly "intuitions" (abstract objects, akin to [..]
 By Susan Dunn / Published on April 3th, 2008 / Technology & Science
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 By Sam Vaknin / Published on April 3th, 2008 / Technology & Science
In the manifestation of their narcissism, female and male narcissists, inevitably, do tend to differ. They emphasise different things. They transform different elements of their personality and [..]
 By Sam Vaknin / Published on April 3th, 2008 / Technology & Science
Patients suffering from eating disorders binge on food and sometimes are both anorectic and bulimic. This is an impulsive behaviour as defined by the DSM (particularly in the case of BPD and to [..]
 By Robert Levin / Published on April 2th, 2008 / Technology & Science
(The following was written in 1993.) Recently, when a visiting friend wanted to rent it, I saw "Schindler’s List" again. I can report that a second viewing of Ralph Fiennes’ portrayal of the [..]

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