... The Suffering of Being Kafka 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelo... ... Sam Vaknin Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint Skopje 2006 No... ...urim.html Poetry of Healing and Abuse http://samvak.tripod.com/contents.html Anatomy of a Mental Illness http://samvak.tripod.com/journal11.html... ... The Suffering of Being Kafka Short Fiction A Beheaded Cart by Sam Vaknin Read the Hebrew original. (In Hebrew... ...st. There he rested, sheltered from the humid sun by peeling posters for lachrymose Turkish films. He pushed the crib outside the penumbral circle a... ...am a terrorist?" My neighbour suddenly addresses me: "You've got nothing to say?" "To my mind, if she were a terrorist, she would have blown us a... ...astes his time on books, on public benches in twilight parks. What could he do to her? "A beautiful woman is only trouble" – someone said and every... ...My uncle, springing to his feet, circumnavigated the table to face my grandma and then, his mind changed, he exited the house, banging the door behi... ... shrugged. "We strolled in the public park. We walked a lot. He talked to me. His speech is beautiful, like a gentleman's. He is wise and erudite. H...

A second volume of short stories and poetry translated from the Hebrew.

... The Conundrums of Psychology 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ... Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2006 Not for Sale! No... ...The DSM Pros and Cons V. The History of Personality Disorders VI. The Metaphors of Mind – The Brain VII. The Metaphors of Mind - Psychotherapy VII... ...aphors of Mind - Psychotherapy VIII. In Defense of Psychoanalysis IX. Metaphors of Mind – The Dialog of Dreams X. Use and Abuse of Differential Dia... ...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... ...XII. The Author On Dis-ease By: Dr. Sam Vaknin We are all terminally ill. It is a matter of time before we all die. Aging and death remain almos... ...elopment of the plot. f. Aesthetic – The plot must be both plausible and "right", beautiful, not cumbersome, not awkward, not discontinuous, smoot... ...nfolding of the plot. f. Aesthetic – The plot must be both plausible and "right", beautiful, not cumbersome, not awkward, not discontinuous, smoot... ...ctice. These theoretical tools were widely used to analyze the Advertising and the film industries. The ideology of consumption (which is, undeniab...

... The Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ... Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2006 Not for Sale! No... ....com/ Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S A. Notes on Developmental Psychology Brain and Personality Psy... ...and Personality First published here: "Personality Disorders (Suite101)" By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Phineas Gage was a 25 years old construction foreman ... ...arranged than they are abandoned in turn for others appearing more feasible ... His mind was radically changed, so that his friends and acquaintance... ...onality style. Traumas (such as brain injuries) have been known to induce states of mind akin to full-blown personality disorders. Such "narcissism"... ...erial Killers By: Dr. Sam Vaknin Countess Erszebet Bathory was a breathtakingly beautiful, unusually well-educated woman, married to a descendan... ...me children do their rag dolls. Killing the victim - often capturing him or her on film before the murder - is a form of exerting unmitigated, abs... ...n of manhood models and work and family structures in the last five decades. In the film "Boys don't Cry", a teenage girl binds her breasts and acts...

... Cyclopedia Of Philosophy 4th EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ... Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2007 Not for Sale! No... ...gs: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download free anthol... ...l Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V. E VI. F VII. G VIII. H IX. I-J X... ...urse, for one's wish to be helped to die to be accommodated, one has to be in sound mind and to will one's death knowingly, intentionally, and force... ...vious answer is that A can never motivate B not to follow B's self-interest - never mind what the incentives are. That economists pretend otherwise ... ...n certain, influential, professions (in banking, finance, the media, politics, the film industry, publishing, science, the humanities, etc.). This ... ...kind (at least in the rich, industrialized countries) is moonstruck. It surfs this beautiful, white landscape, in suspended disbelief. It holds it ... ...of the theory. f. Aesthetic – Economic theory must be both plausible and "right", beautiful (aesthetic), not cumbersome, not awkward, not disconti...

... Cyclopedia Of Philosophy 4th EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ... Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2007 Not for Sale! No... ...gs: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samvak.tripod.com/film.html Download free anthol... ...l Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V. E VI. F VII. G VIII. H IX. I-J X... ...urse, for one's wish to be helped to die to be accommodated, one has to be in sound mind and to will one's death knowingly, intentionally, and force... ...vious answer is that A can never motivate B not to follow B's self-interest - never mind what the incentives are. That economists pretend otherwise ... ...n certain, influential, professions (in banking, finance, the media, politics, the film industry, publishing, science, the humanities, etc.). This ... ...kind (at least in the rich, industrialized countries) is moonstruck. It surfs this beautiful, white landscape, in suspended disbelief. It holds it ... ...of the theory. f. Aesthetic – Economic theory must be both plausible and "right", beautiful (aesthetic), not cumbersome, not awkward, not disconti...

...endSiters Digital Content And Web Technologies 3rd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska ... ... Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2002-7 Not for Sale! Non-commer... ...endSiters Web Site: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Internet – A Medium or a Message? http://samvak.tripod.com/internet.html World i... ...radigms.com, it was established by a group of concerned (and commercially minded) scientists from UC Berkeley. Whereas digital rights and asset ... ...users like to surf (browse, visit sites) the net without reason or goal in mind. This makes it difficult to apply to the web traditional marketing te... ... we have our US and Jamaican production teams in sync. Jamaica provides a beautiful and warm climate, literally, for us to build long-term partnersh... ...("safety in redundancy"). They contain Web pages, television programming, films, e-books, archives of discussion lists, etc. Such materials can help... ...l, the costs of production are lower (with the exception of the music and film industries), the marketing channels more numerous (half of the income... ...ere were no crisis, the opportunity afforded by the internet would be too beautiful to ignore. Given the crisis, it's inexcusable. Q: What is ...

... Capitalistic Musings 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ... Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2003 First published ... ...as an Organizing Principle XXVII. Narcissism in the Boardroom XXVIII. Is Education a Public Good? XXIX. The Demise of the Work Ethic XXX. Foreign ... ...of the theory. f. Aesthetic – Economic theory must be both plausible and "right", beautiful (aesthetic), not cumbersome, not awkward, not disconti... ...d to choose between opportunities, between alternative uses of resources, painfully mindful of their costs. This is how the perennial textbook "Ec... ...cide to co-operate, rather than compete, they do not always have price increases in mind. Sometimes, they get together simply in order to cut costs,... ...ot always foster competition. And many products have umpteen substitutes. Consider films - cable TV, satellite, the Internet, cinemas, video rental... ... to scholarly publishing and other form of intellectual property such as software, films, music, and e-books. Consumers are divided on the issue o... ...re of the law and the processes embedded in it must be both plausible and "right", beautiful, not cumbersome, not awkward, not discontinuous, smoot...

... Speculations and Physics 1 st E DI T I O N Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovsk... ... Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2010 Not for Sale! No... ... Continuity VII. Quantum Mechanics and Superstring Theories SPE C U L A T I O NS I. Psychophysics II. Parapsychology and the Parano... ...cs somehow relates to or is derived from a-priori structures embedded in the human mind. 2. It provides high information density, akin to stenogr... ...orms and structures: some of these are in the material world, others merely in the mind of the mathematician. 4. Mathematics is a flexible, "op... ...he explanation. f. Aesthetic The explanation must be both plausible and "right", beautiful, not cumbersome, not awkward, not discontinuous, smoot... ...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... ..., surely, be intellectual vanity. Return The Science of Superstitions " The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fu... ...retard ageing; ameliorate natural catastrophes; eradicate delinquency (remember the film "Clockwork Orange"?). Imagine a future world in which, due...