... on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linknfactoid Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/... ...l Download free anthologies here: http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – C... ...he appendix has additional functions. Endocrine cells appear in the appendix of the human fetus and produce biogenic amines and peptide hormones, bo... ...the "Pestilence" or the "Great Mortality". They regarded it as divine punishment of humanity's sins. http://www.ento.vt.edu/IHS/plague.html ... ... of the victims of the 1837-38 rebellion, further drained the country's dilapidated resources. By 1849, many Canadians were clamoring to join the ... ...nism" first appeared in Arrago's Dictionnaire de la Conversation in 1834. http://humanityquest.com/topic/Index.asp?theme1=chauvinism Chicago (mus... ...the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU), Child Abduction and Serial Murder Investigative Resources Center (CASMIRC), and Violent Criminal Apprehension P... ...tp://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/freebooks.html More about the Books and Additional Resources The Eighth, Revised Impression (January 2007) of the...

... The Hitler File A Novel of Fact By Sam Vaknin Draft For your consideration © 2006-200... ... The Hitler File A Novel of Fact By Sam Vaknin Draft For your consideration © 2006-2007 Al... ...pped in excrement, no air, just the pervasive stench of aging urine. A river of human flotsam, its moldy delta the elongated metal sinks. We pus... ...adgets, I was into morbidity in its myriad manifestations. He was technology, I was humanities. But somehow these disparities brought us closer and ... ...‘gutter anti-Semitism, crude violence, injudicious propaganda’. He emphasized the ‘humanity of his restraint’. His private and public personas were ... ... The lady in the deli told me where to find you. I got your address from the Human Resources department at the GMG. Hope you don’t mind.” Hulk at...

...use, Torture, And Trauma and Their Consequences and Effects 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.                          ... ...ird edition, 1996, reprinted 2000. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Vaknin, Sam, Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited, seventh revised impress... ...f his confabulations is to threaten the very fabric of family and society. Human intercourse is built around such entertaining deviations from the ... ...nal Universities Press, 1979 10. Guntrip, Harry. Personality Structure and Human Interaction. New York, International Universities Press, 1961 11. ... ...ysis and Developmental Psychology. New York, Basic Books, 1985 30. Vaknin, Sam. Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited. Skopje and Prague, Narc... .... Their drive is compulsive, their vision rarely grounded in reality, their human relations a calamity. In the long run, there is no enduring benefi... ...es, boring jobs, recurrent tasks, personal exertion, orderly investment of resources and efforts, laws and regulations, social conventions, and so ... .../ideal love, etc. Being punished is a diversion of his precious energy and resources from the all-important task of fulfilling his mission in life.... ... and Narcissism: Implications for Practice", published by the Educational Resources Information Centre, the line between enhancing self-esteem and...

... experiences, long-term and repeated abuse, and torture. Includes in-depth profile of the Narcissistic Abuser and hundreds of links to literature and resources....

... Cyclopedia Of Philosophy 4th EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right impl... .... But it is not clear whether it has a right to go on using the mother's body, or resources, or to burden her in any way in order to sustain its o... ...one have the right to use other people's bodies, their property, their time, their resources and to deprive them of pleasure, comfort, material pos... ...tain, or prolong them at SOCIETY's expense (no matter how major and significant the resources required are). Still, if a contract has been signed -... ...forcefully. II. Issues in the Calculus of Rights IIA. The Hierarchy of Rights All human cultures have hierarchies of rights. These hierarchies ref... ...e a calculus of hierarchically weighted rights. (See "Abortion and the Sanctity of Human Life" by Baruch A. Brody). One form of calculus is the uti... ...se formal logical niches that superstition thrives. Appendix - Interview granted by Sam Vaknin to Adam Anderson 1. Do you believe that superstition... ... the successful and happy exchange of goods and services. THE AUTHOR Shmuel (Sam) Vaknin Curriculum Vitae Born in 1961 in Qiryat-Yam...

... Cyclopedia Of Philosophy 4th EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right impl... .... But it is not clear whether it has a right to go on using the mother's body, or resources, or to burden her in any way in order to sustain its o... ...one have the right to use other people's bodies, their property, their time, their resources and to deprive them of pleasure, comfort, material pos... ...tain, or prolong them at SOCIETY's expense (no matter how major and significant the resources required are). Still, if a contract has been signed -... ...forcefully. II. Issues in the Calculus of Rights IIA. The Hierarchy of Rights All human cultures have hierarchies of rights. These hierarchies ref... ...e a calculus of hierarchically weighted rights. (See "Abortion and the Sanctity of Human Life" by Baruch A. Brody). One form of calculus is the uti... ...se formal logical niches that superstition thrives. Appendix - Interview granted by Sam Vaknin to Adam Anderson 1. Do you believe that superstition... ... the successful and happy exchange of goods and services. THE AUTHOR Shmuel (Sam) Vaknin Curriculum Vitae Born in 1961 in Qiryat-Yam...

... Capitalistic Musings 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/... ...w": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – C... ... Also published by United Press International (UPI) It is impossible to describe any human action if one does not refer to the meaning the actor sees... ...henomena such as "strong reciprocity" - the propensity to "irrationally" sacrifice resources to reward forthcoming collaborators and punish free-ri... ... react to the level of visual exposure to advertising - regardless of its content. Humans may be too multi-dimensional and hyper- complex to be usef... ... hopefully improved, assumptions. One way around this apparent quagmire is to put human cognition (i.e., psychology) at the heart of economics. A... ...ound the Malthusian concept of scarcity. Our infinite wants, the finiteness of our resources and the bad job we too often make of allocating them e... ...We are forever forced to choose between opportunities, between alternative uses of resources, painfully mindful of their costs. This is how the p...

... The Conundrums of Psychology 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...The Third Text and Competing Interpellations XII. The Author On Dis-ease By: Dr. Sam Vaknin We are all terminally ill. It is a matter of time be... ...on in the operation and management of the complex ecosystem known as patient-world. Humans absorb their environment and feed it in equal measures. ... ...is morally-neutral and embodies no "values" or "preferences". It simply exists. WE, humans, introduce our value systems, prejudices and priorities i... ...istically the norm of this particular society in this particular time)? We must re-humanize disease. By imposing upon issues of health the pretensi... ...Normal Personality First published here: "Personality Disorders (Suite101)" By: Dr. Sam Vaknin In their opus magnum "Personality Disorders in Modern ... ...(also known as efficiency) - The securing of maximum results with minimum invested resources and minimum damage to other resources, not directly us... ... mental life. On the face of it, dreaming is a colossal waste of energy and psychic resources. Dreams carry no overt information content. They bear ... ...n the savannah. Scientists are people who believe in the aesthetic preservation of resources. They believe that nature is intrinsically optimal, pa...

...endSiters Digital Content And Web Technologies 3rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska ... ... other related issues. http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE!... ...hor bio, including the link to the author's web site. AUTHOR BIO: Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of Malignant Self Lov... ...m the realm of passive, inert objects and transforms it into a catalyst of human interactions across time and space. In other words, it returns the b... ... arranged series of in-depth essays authored by the best in every field of human erudition. When the CD-ROM erupted on the scene, the Britannica ... ... information authored and released by the leading names in every field of human knowledge and endeavour. The Internet, is, in effect, an encyclopaedi... ...proffering sex or tourism. No user seems to be grateful for the effort and resources invested in creating and distributing content. The recent breakd... ...cycle: Anarchy The Public Phase At this stage, the medium and the resources attached to it are very cheap, accessible, under no regulatory c... ... organizations (NGOs), trade unions, etc. Bedevilled by limited financial resources, they regard the new medium as a cost effective way of dissemina...

...e at this discussion site, and to those who participated in producing this document. Sam Vaknin C O N T E N T S Narcissistic ... ...eet … (Our Blunders, Bloopers, Typos, One-liners and Jokes) Random Quotes Links and Resources Abbreviations Used: N = Narcissist, Narc... ...n, DC: American Psychiatric Association. Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited by: Sam Vaknin, Narcissus Publications, Skopje and Prague, 1999-... ...n one – and even when he is long out of their life." Article: Other People's Pain by Sam Vaknin http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/npd/76632 "... ...lf?" "Does he want to hurt you? Well, now, that would imply that he thinks of you as a human being – an N doesn't. What he wants is to secure suppl... ... survived thus far at the hand of an N. I think I might still be in shock that my N, a human being, is actually capable of hurting another so much, ... ...ed on his whim. Cut it, now. Cut the cord, and never look back." "Of course, as normal human beings, we search inside ourselves for answers. That i... ...ew Sources of Narcissistic Supply and would rather not spend these scarce and expensive resources over what he regards as human refuse, the waste le... ... demeans and debases her. He invades her territory, abuses her confidence, exhausts her resources, hurts her loved ones, threatens her stability and...

... Terrorists And Freedom Fighters 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/... ...hus, all such groups are rebarbatively authoritarian, execrably violent, devoid of human empathy or emotions, suppressive, ostentatious, trenchant ... ...red in gulosity and superciliousness as they become. Inveterate violators of basic human rights, they often transform into the very demons they hel... ...who flee in terror at the sight of a stranger, crying 'Turks! Turks!' These are the human wreckage of the hurricane which usurps the functions of a ... ...inciples of thought. Should the KLA find in itself the flexibility and intellectual resources - rare commodities in ideological movements - needed t... ...e in history. Return Narcissists, Group Behaviour, and Terrorism Interview with Sam Vaknin Published in "The Idler" Sam Vaknin is the au... ...niable charm, intelligence, or attractiveness. But the narcissist needs not invest resources in converting them to his cause - he does not deceive ... ...orism enhances social upward mobility and fosters the redistribution of wealth and resources from the haves to haves not. Al-Qaida, despite its omi...

... The Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...and Personality First published here: "Personality Disorders (Suite101)" By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Phineas Gage was a 25 years old construction foreman ... ...nal Development First published here: "Personality Disorders (Suite101)" By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The Viennese neurologist, Sigmund Freud, was among t... ...o do one, and only one, thing. It has a single purpose and a unitary function. We, humans, are more like computers than like television sets. Tr... ...r or trait. An array of coordinated genes is required to explain even the minutest human phenomenon. "Discoveries" of a "gambling gene" here and an... ...e latter. The narcissist is no exception. The narcissist has a dichotomous view of humanity: humans are either Sources of Narcissistic Supply (and,... ...d of them. The narcissist feels that he is misallocating his scarce and invaluable resources (for instance, his time). He feels besieged and suffoc... ...ransformation of these external sources of narcissistic sustenance into endopsychic resources, that is, specifically into sustaining self-esteem and... ...se he takes the "easy" route of resorting to his self and reinvesting his libidinal resources "in-house" rather than making an effort (and risking f...

... Narcissistic And Psychopathic Leaders 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.                          ... ...ird edition, 1996, reprinted 2000. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Vaknin, Sam, Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited, seventh revised impress... ...f his confabulations is to threaten the very fabric of family and society. Human intercourse is built around such entertaining deviations from the ... ...nal Universities Press, 1979 10. Guntrip, Harry. Personality Structure and Human Interaction. New York, International Universities Press, 1961 11.... ...ysis and Developmental Psychology. New York, Basic Books, 1985 30. Vaknin, Sam. Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited. Skopje and Prague, Narc... .... Their drive is compulsive, their vision rarely grounded in reality, their human relations a calamity. In the long run, there is no enduring benefi... ...es, boring jobs, recurrent tasks, personal exertion, orderly investment of resources and efforts, laws and regulations, social conventions, and so ... .../ideal love, etc. Being punished is a diversion of his precious energy and resources from the all-important task of fulfilling his mission in life.... ... and Narcissism: Implications for Practice", published by the Educational Resources Information Centre, the line between enhancing self-esteem and...

...issism Revisited 1 st EDITION 8 th Revised Impression EXCERPTS – NOT the full Book! Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. The Author is NOT a Mental Health... ...nt ISBN: 978-80-238-3384-3 Created by: Lidija Rangelovska, Skopje REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA "Sam Vaknin is the world's leading expert on narcissi... ...ychopathic narcissist." Ian Walker, ABC Radio National Background Briefing, July 18, 2004 "Sam Vaknin is a leading authority on the topic of na... ..., Mount Sinai Hospital, New York Author "Towards Self and Sanity – On the Genetic Origins of the Human Character" "… This book has an important ... ...hout this book click on blue-lettered text to navigate to different chapters or to access online resources. Foreword Prologue Introduction... .... In fact, the mere notion of asking the question is so repulsive to me that I employ all of my resources to repel it. I reconstruct facts, fabricat... ...mit that. For most people, to need others is normal, an accepted part of who they are, of being human. For me, to need anythin g i s t o a c c e p t... ...perienced individuals, and pass for normal. It is simply not possible for such an aberration of human cognition and behaviour to infiltrate and inf... ...lf-image (the way he "sees" himself). The narcissist maintains this projected image and invests resources and energy in it, sometimes depleting him ...

... Facts and Fictions in The Securities Industry 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...dija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/... ...w": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – C... ...ies react differently? Economy is a branch of psychology and wherever and whenever humans are involved, answers don't come easy. A few models have ... ...in so many ventures and companies, the financial investor has no interest, nor the resources to get seriously involved in any one of them. Micro-ma... ...one way. Are we ready for a recurrence of 1929? About as we were prepared in 1928. Human nature - the prime mover behind market meltdowns - seemed ... ...both the capital and real estate markets. This cycle is as old and as inevitable as human greed and fear. Post Script In 2007, a collapse in the su... ...one ailing institution after another, taxing further their limited counter-cyclical resources. Simultaneously, in Asia, growth rates began to decele... ...nism. In September 2008, the Fed even borrowed money from the Treasury when its own resources were depleted. As The Economist neatly summed it up (...

...The Labour Divide 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska ... ...unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://www.ce-review.org/authorarc... ... by the same author - available! http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Sam Vaknin's "Central Europe Review" Author Archive: http://www.ce-revie... ...f the Employment Bureau. It must transform itself from a mere registry of humans to an active, computerized exchange of labour. This can be done thr... ...its, the government can either cut taxes of improve the allocation of its resources. In both cases the economy improves and provides an added incent... ... others, including the workers). The Rhineland model is capitalism with a human face. It calls for an economy of consultation among stakeholders (sh... ...f the Employment Bureau. It will transform itself from a mere registry of humans to an active exchange of labour. This will be done through the esta... ... Poorer countries invest an average of $50,000 of their painfully scarce resources in every university graduate - only to witness most of them emigr... ...The list is long and is getting longer by the day. Watson Wyatt, a human resources consultancy, conducted a detailed survey among firms in CEE (cen...

... Wars and Empire 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-review.org/... ...w": http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – C... ...cuous materialism. Recent accounting scandals, crumbling markets, political scams, human rights violations, technological setbacks, and rising soci... ... mighty. According to most recent surveys by Gallup, MORI, the Council for Secular Humanism, the US Census Bureau, and others - the vast majority o... ...tes are far more demanding and far less rewarding. This self-proclaimed champion of human rights has aided and abetted countless murderous dictators... ...orism enhances social upward mobility and fosters the redistribution of wealth and resources from the haves to haves not. Al-Qaida, despite its omi... ...Narcissist Narcissists in Positions of Authority Narcissists and Social Institutions Resources regarding Leadership Styles Serial Killers as a Social ... ... India and Iran. For Russia, this was seen as a way to control Central Asian energy resources and to extend its influence towards the Indian Ocean. ...

...The Silver Lining Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema 3 rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...d his enemies. He should have felt and acted with responsibility towards his fellow human beings, even towards those who wronged him greatly. But ... ...ucers exploit Truman's life shamelessly and remorselessly in the ugliest display of human vices possible. The Director indulges in his control-mania... ...zing movie, "The Matrix", a breed of AI computers takes over the world. It harvests human embryos in laboratories called "fields". It then feeds th... ...e crown of creation with complete dominion over nature and the right to exploit its resources unreservedly. Similar, veiled, sentiments can be found... ...ul course of action. Utilitarians regard nature as a set of exhaustible and scarce resources and deal with their optimal allocation from a human po... ...ch as "sustainable development". Even the costs of replacing or repairing depleted resources and natural assets are difficult to determine. Effort... ...t Encounter. It may also be our last. Return T H E A U T H O R SHMUEL (SAM) VAKNIN Curriculum Vitae Born in 1961 in Qiryat-Yam, Isra... ...s. It is like time travel. It is like revisiting one's childhood." The Author Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Rev...

... Speculations and Physics 1 st E DI T I O N Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ...in themselves or in their environment. We call these vectors "Negentropic Agents". Human Beings are Negentropic Agents gone awry. Now, through its ... ...aining the number of other Entropic Agents on Earth or by reducing the numbers of humans. To achieve the latter (which is the path of least resi... ...e path of least resistance and a typical self-regulatory mechanism), Nature causes humans to begin to internalize and assimilate the Entropy that t... ... series of intricate and intertwined mechanisms: The Malthusian Mechanism Limited resources lead to wars, famine, diseases and to a decrease in th... ...type invariably develop at different rates, thus preventing an all-out scramble for resources and maladaptive changes. This is known as "mosaic ev... .... It is reminiscent of the "invisible hand of the market" that allegedly allocates resources optimally among various players and agents. Martin Now... ...ed or replicated elsewhere and at other times even when they are conducted with the SAM E subjects (who are no longer the same owing to the effects... ...rstition thrives. Continue to Science and Religion Appendix - Interview granted by Sam Vaknin to Adam Anderson 1. Do you believe that superstition...