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Narcissism Book of Quotes

By: Sam Vaknin

...s coupled with rage when frustrated, contradicted, or confronted. Summarised from: American Psychiatric Association (2000). Diagnostic and Stat... ... Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition, text revision (DSM-IV-TR). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association. Malignant Self Love – Narc... ...y remember that. Any 'feelings' or emotions shown are like those put on by an actor on stage. They look good, but are only an act." "The person wit... ...ties. And when they withdraw the 'caring' and the 'loving' and start on the devaluation stage, then the contrast is so appalling that we are wrecked... ..., then the contrast is so appalling that we are wrecked, unable to understand (at this stage most of us had never heard of NPD) so naturally we thou... ...xed at what he was angry about. When I finally asked him, he turned to me with the most malevolent glare, and said: 'YOU! You are what is wrong with... ....htm "David: Are the behaviours exhibited by females the same or similar to those of male narcissists? Vaknin: Largely, yes. The behaviours are i... ...s will tend to abuse 'outside the family' (neighbours, friends, colleagues, employees). Male narcissists tend to abuse 'inside the family' (mainly t... ...o the prevailing ethos of capitalism. Social thinkers like Lasch speculated that modern American culture – a narcissistic, self-centred one – increa...

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...passive-aggressive, and psychoneurotic personality disorders and types. The American Psychiatric Association, based in Washington D.C., USA, publish... ...mendments do not constitute a part of the text of the DSM-IV-TR, nor is the American Psychiatric Association (APA) associated with them in any way.]... ...tely 2-16 percent. Almost 75 percent of individuals diagnosed with NPD are male (AP A, DSM-IV-TR 2000)." [From the Abstract of Psychotherapeutic As... ...rder By Robert C. Schwartz, Ph.D., DAPA and Shannon D. Smith, Ph.D., DAPA (American Psychotherapy Association, Article #3004 Annals July/August 200... ...ecent research by Roy Baumeister. Is pathological narcissism a blessing or a malediction? The answer is: it depends. Healthy narcissism is a mature, ... ...of dark and stupendous forces. In every deviation from his tenets he espies malevolent and ominous subversion. He, therefore, is bent on disempower... ... self- worth (possibly an inferiority complex). Question: Do you believe the actors and reporters want themselves to be as famous as the celebrities ... ...to develop narcissism. It would seem reasonable to assume – though, at this stage, there is not a shred of proof – that the narcissist is born with ...

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Yellow on the Outside, Shame on the inside : Asian Culture Revealed

By: Chi, Anson

...ually comprised of minorities, not Caucasian. And as everyone knows, Native Americans were here first when they massively outnumbered early European... ...ucasians in America have mixed — blood: Jewish blood, Spanish blood, Native American blood, and even African blood. Also, don't you find it ironic t... ...d since we're the minorities, we've been emblematically segregated as Asian Americans, African Americans, and even Jewish Americans, but the strange... ...hrow a baby off a cliff if it's a girl, only stopping until they conceive a male. In Asian culture, the first son is like winning a biological lotter... ...al. The main reason, obviously, is to get attention, hopefully attracting a male with a strong moral character and benevolent disposition yeah right!... ... Our waiter, also not Japanese even though he's wearing a traditional Jinbei male — kimono brings out a huge sushi boat, full of an assortment of del... ...od. Most people think of Hollywood as the movie capital of the world, where actors and actresses flow like water from a fountain. That's true, for th... ... Gabriel taps me hard on my left shoulder and points to a go-go dancer up on stage near the mezzanine. She is definitely gorgeous, amplified by the f... ...k around and see a voluptuous Vietnamese girl dancing by herself next to the stage. I walk up to her and say Hello. She stares me right in the eyes, ...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...nd the ability to feel pain? Historically, philosophers like Kant (and Descartes, Malebranche, and Aquinas) rejected the idea of animal rights. Th... ...sitizes us to human suffering and makes us more prone to using violence on humans. Malebranche augmented this line of thinking by "proving" that an... ...and suffering, as we all know, are the exclusive outcomes of Adam's sins. Kant and Malebranche may have been wrong. Animals may be able to suffer a... ...these problems are averted. Therapeutic cloning has vast untapped - though at this stage still remote - potential to improve the lives of hundreds ... ...y deleterious. We can render a system dysfunctional by inhibiting or reversing any stage in the complex processes involved - or by preventing the e... ...s "how are the laws applied". If a bias exists, if a party is favoured it is at the stage of administering justice and the impartiality of the arbit...

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