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... II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam and Lib... ...pire V. The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism VI. Add Me to the List VII. The American Hostel VIII. The Semi-failed State The War in Afghan... ...sons XIV. The Iraqi and the Madman XV. Just War or Just a War? The Roots of Anti-Americanism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The United States is one of the... ...'s findings. The most startling and unambiguous revelation was the extent of anti-American groundswell everywhere: among America's NATO allies, in... ...TO allies, in developing countries, Muslim nations and even in eastern Europe where Americans, only a decade ago, were lionized as much-adulated li... ...the United States, is often perceived as trying to impose its narcissistic pseudo-culture upon a world exhausted by wars hot and cold and corrupte... ...of brain with brawn (i.e., money or bombs), its legalistic-litigious character, its culture of instant gratification and one-dimensional over-simpl... ... foes, often one and the same. The global spread of American influence through its culture, political alliances, science and multinationals is mere... ... our will. Soft power works through attraction ... Our attractiveness rests on our culture, our political values and our policies by taking into ac...

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...services whose importance is only enhanced by the "free for all" Internet culture. Content intermediaries grade content and separate the qualitat... ...rs between the types of intermediaries are blurred. Barnes and Noble (the American bookstores chain) has, in effect, become a publisher. Many publis... ...ers, movers and shapers. These two neglected aspects of Internet hype and culture led to the trouncing of erstwhile promising web media companies wh... ... The result was a globe encompassing network of academic institutions. The American Pentagon established the network of all networks, the ARPANET. Ot... ...lterior motives of members of the ruling political echelons (the infamous American Paranoia), a lack of variety and of catering to the tastes and in... ...e and commercial hands. Public radio was doomed to be marginalized. The American administration withdrew from its last major involvement in the Int... ...ample, provides such a resolution service in Hebrew. The Association of American Publishers (APA) has an Enabling Technologies Committee. Fittingl... ...ny and in Subiaco, Italy) shunned it and regarded it as a major threat to culture and civilization. Their attacks on printing read like the litanies... ...ny other factors which determine the interaction of free and paid content. Culture plays an important role as do the law and technology. But as long ...

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...ydisorders.suite101.com/ Philosophical Musings and Essays http://samvak.tripod.com/culture.html Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited http:/... ... as in the placebo effect). The very nature of dysfunction and sickness is highly culture-dependent. Societal parameters dictate right and wrong i... ...tes of affairs. Whether one is preferable to the other is a matter of the specific culture and society in which the question is posed. Health (and ... ...p. 2) The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)) IV-TR (2000), published by the American Psychiatric Association, defines personality traits as:... ...nsistently deviates from the typical, average behaviour of all other people in his culture and society that fit his profile (whether this conventio... ...cally fundamental "condition" vanished after 1980. Homosexuality, according to the American Psychiatric Association, was a pathology prior to 1973.... ...atterns – in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fourth edition, text revision [American Psychiatric Association. DSM- IV-TR, Washington, 2000] –... ...eir actions, are not subject to irresistible impulses (the official position of the American Psychiatric Association) - in what way do they differ f... ...r. Sam Vaknin The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fourth edition, text revision [American Psychiatric Association. DSM-IV-TR, Washington, 2000] -...

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...ydisorders.suite101.com/ Philosophical Musings and Essays http://samvak.tripod.com/culture.html Malignant Self Love – Narcissism Revisited http:/... ...e answers: Maybe personality disorders are not objective clinical entities, but culture-bound syndromes. In other words, perhaps they reflect bi... ...bserved that one's personality was shaped mostly by one's environment, society, or culture. She believed that one's relationships and interactions ... ...timistic outlook. Because biology is only one of the forces shaping our adulthood – culture and society being the predominant ones – she believes in... ...r desirous exploits – the more they are likely to end up with a bundle of joy (the American saccharine expression for a newborn). Many children are... ...y who establish the relevance of Fairbairn and Guntrip … by pointing out that what American analysts label 'narcissism', British analysts tend to c... .... Lasch described the narcissistic landscape thus (in "The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an age of Diminishing Expectations", 1979): "T... ...roved to be nonsense. Women were thought not to be world-class musicians. But when American symphony orchestras introduced blind auditions in the 1... ...Disorder (ADHD), and to commit suicide. In her book, "Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man", Susan Faludi describes a crisis of masculinity fo...

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...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.]... ...rder By Robert C. Schwartz, Ph.D., DAPA and Shannon D. Smith, Ph.D., DAPA (American Psychotherapy Association, Article #3004 Annals July/August 200... ...ew York, International Universities Press, 1971 19. Lasch, Christopher. The Culture of Narcissism. New York, Warner Books, 1979 20. Levine, J. D., a... ...Disorders of Narcissism: Diagnostic, Clinical, and Empirical Implications. American Psychiatric Press, 1998 26. Rothstein, Arnold. The Narcissistic ... ...er. Narcissistic Personality Disorders – A Clinical Discussion. Journal of American Psychoanalytic Association – 22 [1974]: 292-305 28. Salant-Schw... ...rcissism is not an isolated phenomenon. It is embedded in our contemporary culture. The West's is a narcissistic civilization. It upholds narcissis... ...m is often blurred by educators and parents. Both Christopher Lasch in "The Culture of Narcissism" and Theodore Millon in his books about personali... ...ial thinkers like the aforementioned Lasch speculated that modern American culture – a self-centred one – increases the rate of incidence of the Na...

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...d FAQ # 71: The Narcissist and Social Institutions FAQ # 72: Collective Narcissism (Narcissism, Culture and Society) FAQ # 73: The Narcissist in Co... ...unctioning." [p. 2] The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)) IV-TR [2000], published by the American Psychiatric Association, defines personali... ...rigidly and consistently deviates from the typical, average behaviour of all other people in his culture and society that fit his profile (whether t... ...sis, a historically fundamental "condition" vanished after 1980. Homosexuality, according to the American Psychiatric Association, was a pathology p... ...lnesses are bodily and empirical, they should be invariant both temporally and spatially, across cultures and societies. This, to some degree, is, i... ...s, antisocial ways, schizotypal symptoms, depression, even psychosis are considered sick by some cultures – and utterly normative or advantageous in... ...tcomes of their actions, are not subject to irresistible impulses (the official position of the American Psychiatric Association) – in what way do ... ... Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR) [2000], published by the American Psychiatric Association, based in Washingto... ...r in italics.] [My amendments do not constitute a part of the text of the DSM- IV-TR, nor is the American Psychiatric Association (APA) associated w...

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...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.]... ...rder By Robert C. Schwartz, Ph.D., DAPA and Shannon D. Smith, Ph.D., DAPA (American Psychotherapy Association, Article #3004 Annals July/August 200... ...ew York, International Universities Press, 1971 19. Lasch, Christopher. The Culture of Narcissism. New York, Warner Books, 1979 20. Levine, J. D., a... ...Disorders of Narcissism: Diagnostic, Clinical, and Empirical Implications. American Psychiatric Press, 1998 26. Rothstein, Arnold. The Narcissistic ... ...r. Narcissistic Personality Disorders – A Clinical Discussion. Journal of American Psychoanalytic Association – 22 [1974]: 292-305 28. Salant-Schw... ...rcissism is not an isolated phenomenon. It is embedded in our contemporary culture. The West's is a narcissistic civilization. It upholds narcissis... ...m is often blurred by educators and parents. Both Christopher Lasch in "The Culture of Narcissism" and Theodore Millon in his books about personali... ...ial thinkers like the aforementioned Lasch speculated that modern American culture – a self-centred one – increases the rate of incidence of the Na...

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...urs fail - in knowing when to let go. Return The Myth of the Earnings Yield In American novels, well into the 1950's, one finds protagonists us... ...all but impossible. There is no telling what were the contributions of drug barons, American off-shore corporations, or European and Japanese tax-ev... ...ten end up fostering a bubble. South Korean chaebols, Japanese keiretsu, as well as American conglomerates frequently used these cheap funds to prop... ...e than a bit of Schadenfreude: "The country has not suffered a catastrophe ... The American people ... has been gambling largely with the surplus o... ...6 percent, and wages by 33 percent. In 1929, 4,455,100 passenger cars were sold by American factories, one for every 27 members of the population, ... ...with its proponents in the exact sciences as well - ran deeper than that. The very culture of commerce was thoroughly permeated and transformed. It... ...e, up bringing, wealth, and social responsibilities. A succession of societies and cultures discriminated against the ignorant, criminals, atheists... ... Prague and Skopje, 2000 Winner of numerous awards, among them Israel's Council of Culture and Art Prize for Maiden Prose (1997), The Rotary Club A...

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