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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...XI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1... ... heads of his constitutional advisers. "The last time when this happened in English history was when Charles I raised His Standard at the beginning ... ...s Systems. http://www.roserpark.net/greenwood/strowger.html http://www.strowger.com/history.html http://www.agcs.com B Barbie Barbie was invented ... ... Berliner". http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa021700a.htm http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/berliner.htm Bible The Jews do not... ...d Analysis Project Gathers experts from forensic science, crime scene analysis, psychiatry and other fields to screen unsolved cases for local l... ...essive episode. Serotonin drops during winter months. SOURCE: American Journal of Psychiatry 2003;160:793- 795. http://herkules.oulu.fi/isbn95142...

Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.

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Kabbalah Revealed

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...uentin Rd, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, New York, 11223, USA Printed in Canada No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written ... ...this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied i... ...e case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Laitman, Michael. Kabbalah... ...h we are parts of a greater whole, have been considered the exception in the history of civilization. But if we look at the history of ideas, we wil... ...nge is desire. The way our desires evolve both defines and designs the entire history of humanity. As humankind’s desires developed, they urged peop... ... we become. And because we are now at the most intense level of desire in our history, we cannot avoid the conclusion 32 KABBALAH REVEALED that tod... ...s, ages 15-54, suffer from depressive episodes.” And the Archives of General Psychiatry announced: “The use of potent antipsychotic drugs to treat ...

...Kabbalah Revealed: The Ordinary Person’s Guide to a More Peaceful Life is a clearly-written, user-friendly guide to making sense of the surrounding world while achieving inner peace. Each of the six chapters in this book focuses on a different aspect of the ancient wisdom of Kabbalah, shedding new light on a teaching that has too often been shrouded in...

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The Mystery of Jamieson Stone

By: Jonathan Cross

... - J.Cross/Stone 2 THE MYSTERY OF JAMIESON STONE A Novel by Jonathan Cross ... ...ross/Stone 3 CHAPTER 1 WASHINGTON, D.C. The studios of WNN (Worldwide News Network) were as hectic as usual. Pr... ...ic as usual. Producers, assistant producers, directors, assistant directors and a beehive of workers were all scurrying around pawning off papers an... ...atamir. Brand focused the mouse on it, and clicked. In seconds, the computer gave a brief history: author of five books, three on physics, and two o... ...ds, the computer gave a brief history: author of five books, three on physics, and two on psychiatry. Received his Doctorate in physics in Moscow, a... ... and two on psychiatry. Received his Doctorate in physics in Moscow, and his Doctorate in psychiatry in Vienna. It also listed some other biographica... ...nally found and paid for two books written by the Professor: one on physics, the other on psychiatry. He glanced over the table of contents of both ... ...?” “It has been my experience that when these kind of events happen, there is usually a history to go with it.” “And what do you suspect…Agent..?...

...ities cover up their misdeeds and embarrassing situations, now finds himself trying to unravel the mystery that could change the world and the future of the international space station. ...

...Weaving international intrigue with a high-level murder case, The Mystery of Jamieson Stone will leave you on the edge of your seat. When the world’s most famous television news anchor, Jamieson Stone, apparently commits suicide on live international television, Stone’s widow hires detective Mi...

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From Chaos to Harmony

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...Chaos to Harmony The Solution to the Global Crisis According to the Wisdom of Kabbalah Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Translation: Chaim Ratz Editor: C... ...M CHAOS TO HARMONY The Solution to the Global Crisis According to the Wisdom of Kabbalah Copyright © 2006 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved P... ...uentin Rd, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, New York, 11223, USA Printed in Canada No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written p... ...f an individual, and throughout the generations. Examining the evolution- ary history of other species, such as primates, indicates that several tho... ...cess of desire-evolution happens not only in the whole of humanity throughout history; it happens in the private lives of each of us as well. These ... ...he.” Regrettably, today their words seem more pertinent than ever. Throughout history, we believed that better times were ahead, that we would progr... ... of human altruism: a fresh phenotype for the dopamine D4 receptor, Molecular Psychiatry, April 2005; 10(4):333-335. 19 Editor’s note: Perception of...

...amples from science and Kabbalah that the ego stands behind all human suffering, but also shows how we can use it to our benefit. With clear analyses of the human soul and its problems, the book provides a 'roadmap' indicating how we can achieve a new level of existence and fulfillment....

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Kabbalah for Beginners

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...in Rd, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, New York, 11223, USA Printed in Canada No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written perm... ... book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in cr... ...se of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Laitman, Michael. Kabbalah for... ...neI b aruch ...................................................... 186 History and o rigin .......................................................... ...staff members of the Ashlag Research Institute (ARI). PART oNE The History of Kabbalah T here is no real difference between the history of ... ...lah T here is no real difference between the history of Kabbalah and the history of the world, except that Kabbalah tells the same story from the s... ...ges 15-54, suffer from depressive episodes.” And the Archives of general Psychiatry announced: “The use of potent antipsychotic drugs to treat chil...

...The Kabbalist Rabbi Laitman, who was the student and personal assistant to Rabbi Baruch Ashlag from 1979-1991, follows in the footsteps of his rabbi in passing on the wisdom of Kabbalah to the world. This book is based on sources that were passed down by Rabbi Baruch's father, Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, the author of the commentaries on The Book of Zohar, who conti...

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A Guide To the Hidden Wisdom of Kabbalah

By: Rav Michael Laitman

... A Guide To The Hidden Wisdom of Kabbalah With Ten Complete Kabbalah Lessons Introduction ... ...hapter 2: Why Study Kabbalah? Chapter 3: What Is a Kabbalist? Chapter 4: The History of Kabbalah and The Zohar Chapter 5: Who Can Study Kabbalah... ...: Why Study Kabbalah? Chapter 3: What Is a Kabbalist? Chapter 4: The History of Kabbalah and The Zohar Chapter 5: Who Can Study Kabbalah? Chap... ...y and Kabbalah Chapter 8: Reincarnation and Kabbalah Chapter 9: The Language of Kabbalists: Branches Chapter 10: Sensing Reality through Kabbala... ...ding scientific tools to examine our feelings, even in the field of psychology, psychiatry and other social disciplines. Behavioral factors remain h... ...reserved. Bnei Baruch World Center for Kabbalah Studies Chapter 4: The History of Kabbalah and The Zohar Introduction Part I Chapter 1 ...

...In a time of crisis, we need a guide to help us calm and stabilize our lives. This is why Kabbalah is being revealed to millions today. Kabbalah is a tool for bettering life, and A Guide to the Hidden Wisdom of Kabbalah teaches how we ...

...Introduction: The laws of nature, our place in the world and our behavior have been studied by scientists and philosophers for thousands of years. Along with logical assumptions, science uses quantifiable research and data. Yet our scientists and r...

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Unlocking the Zohar

By: Rav Michael Laitman

... 85th Street #51, Brooklyn, New York, 11214, USA Printed in canada No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permis... ...is book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critic... ... embodied in critical articles or reviews. ISBN 978-1-897448-59-5 Library of congress control Number: 2011903649 copy Editor: c. gerus Associate Ed... ...h, domination, respect, and knowledge. 12 uNloCkiNg the Zohar Throughout history, we have been trying to satisfy the needs that emerged in us. We h... ...the upper worlds. Kabbalah explains everything that has happened in human history: why we have developed one way and not another, and why all the wa... ...egative force that prods us from behind, as we have been doing throughout history: We would discover that something was missing and that we had no ... ...uman Altruism: A Fresh Phenotype for the Dopamine D4 Receptor”, Molecular Psychiatry 10(4), April 2005, pp. 333—335. chapter 2: Nature and Us 27 a ...

...The Book of Zohar (Book of Radiance) is perhaps the most mysterious composition ever written. It contains the secrets of the whole of Creation, but until recently these secrets were shrouded in mystery and misconceptions. Now the Zo...

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Attaining the Worlds Beyond

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...24 2. Spiritual Path ........................................... 31 Providence of the Creator .................................. 34 Realizing the Crea... ... Let Kabbalah Be Your Guide ................................ 65 5. The Purpose of Studying Kabbalah ...................... 67 6. Spiritual Progress ..... ...ess ....................................... 71 Faith: Believing in the Oneness of the Creator ................. 74 7. Our Perceptions ................... ...h itself. Who, if not the Creator, is the Source of that suffering? Throughout history, how many individuals have been willing to suffer and endure an... ...onable egoism. The erroneous nature of such utopias has been proven throughout history, particularly in ancient communities, in the former USSR and in... ...thephysicalenslavementthatwasexperienced by all nations at some point in their history. Galut is the enslavement of each of us by our worst enemy—egoi... ...s for ac- curately examining our feelings, even in the realms of psy- chology, psychiatry and other social disciplines. Behavioral factorsremainhidden...

...In the words of Michael Laitman, "It is beyond human comprehension to understand the essence of such spiritual qualities as total altruism and love. This is for the simple reason that human beings cannot comprehend how such feelings can e...

...It is beyond human comprehension to understand the essence of such spiritual qualities as total altruism and love. Even the existence of such feelings is beyond our comprehension; we seem to require an incentive to perform any act that does not promise us some form of personal gain. ...

... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 The Search for the Creator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 13. The Way of Kabbalah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 The Desire To Receive Pleasure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 14. Revelation and Concealment . . . . . . . . . ....

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The Path of Kabbalah

By: Rav Michael Laitman

... By Rav Michael Laitman PhD The Path of Kabbalah By Rav Michael Laitman PhD LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS T... ...of Kabbalah By Rav Michael Laitman PhD LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS The Path of Kabbalah Executive Editor: Benzion Giertz Editor: Claire Gerus Tra... ....kabbalah.info Laitman Kabbalah Publishers E-mail: info@kabbalah.info THE PATH OF KABBALAH Copyright © 2005 by MICHAEL LAITMAN. All rights reserved. P... ...ot a historic epic, though there is a correlation be- tween the text and human history. But this is only because the construc- tion of the worlds is b... ...here are almost no Kabbalists. The situation we are in today is the first in history. There is a growing need and desire from below, while at the s... ... the Creator, He reveals everything that occurred to us throughout the entire history of our souls. This includes the Creator’s treatment of us ever... ...e feelings of dif- ferent individuals. That is the problem with psychology and psychiatry. We are unable to accurately measure what we feel, duplicat...

...ed His Essence, the Upper Force, and this is what we perceive as our world. As uncanny as it sounds, this notion hides in its wings the very prospect of freedom, for every person, for every nation, and for the entire world. The structure and the perception of reality are the surface of this book. But the story of humanity, or more accurately, of the human soul, is the und...

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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

... write 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-revi... ...tml http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freed... ...donians III. The Black Hand IV. The Insurgents and the Swastika V. KLA – The Army of Liberation VI. Appendix: Pathological Narcissism, Group Behav... ...cause (in most cases, the freedom of a group of people). They base their claims on history - real or hastily concocted, on a common heritage, on a ... ...balanced personalities and project them to great effect. They are the footnotes of history that assume the role of text. And they rarely enjoy the ... ...ree nations: the Greeks, the Bulgarians, and the Serbs. Each invoked ethnicity and history and all conjured up the apparition of the defunct Treaty... ...sz, of the State University of New York, notes in his article "The Lying Truths of Psychiatry", mental health scholars, regardless of academic pred... ...ty disorders are an excellent example of the kaleidoscopic landscape of "objective" psychiatry. The classification of Axis II personality disorders ... ...undly and irreversibly. Medicines – as David Kaiser reminds us in "Against Biologic Psychiatry" (Psychiatric Times, Volume XIII, Issue 12, December ...

...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a prec...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...on Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millenniu... ...lished under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second edition, with tex... ...ations, and new index, is published by the Author, Donald Broadribb, owner of the publication rights. Copyright © 1995 and 2006 by Donald Broadribb. T... ...ture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied wit... ...iblical studies and languages (which I had studied at UTS) to teaching the history of pre-Christian civilizations and religions. It was not long befor... ...derstand their effect you must take a step to the left into his studies of psychiatry, abnormal psychology, and the structure of the personality. This... ...stablish emotional equilibrium. The requirement of study and experience in psychiatry is given equal footing with undergoing analysis, a reminder that... ...of Christianity. Even now books concerned with Comparative Religion or the History of Religions tend to devote the giant’s share of their content to t... ...find a detailed discussion of Jung’s ideas as applied to fields other than psychiatry and psychopathology that does not take one side or another of so...

...Most readers of this book will have had some type of religious instruction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live...

...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life

By: Rav Michael Laitman

... Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life LAITMAN KABBALAH PUBLISHERS Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbal... ...ALAH PUBLISHERS Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Kabbalah, Science and the Meaning of Life Translation: Chaim Ratz Proofreading: Kate Weibel Editor: Cla... ...lah Publishers E-mail: info@kabbalah.info KABBALAH, SCIENCE AND THE MEANING OF LIFE Copyright © 2006 by MICHAEL LAITMAN All rights reserved Publis... ...desire for pleasure has been the force behind human evolu- tion throughout our history. The desire for pleasure evolves through several stages. In th... ...lytic training at the C.G. Jung Institute of Zürich. He is a former Fellow in Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry at Yale, where he was twice awarded th... ...ved over thousands of years and been disseminated among Kabbalists throughout history. I would like to briefly review the key points in this process... ...d motion were all formed, and how the will to receive will evolve. Our entire history is determined by the evolution of our will to receive; this ca... ...- view and the way people actually lead their lives. Modern medi- cine, modern psychiatry, and all the doctrines that research the human mind and ner...

...Kabbalah, Science & the Meaning of Life traces the milestones of the evolution of science with which we are familiar, such as Newton’s and Einstein’s theories but goes further to present the science of Kabbalah as the basis for understanding the hidden part...

...Foreword: The essence of human nature is its perpetually evolving desire for pleasure. To realize this desire, we feel compelled to discover, invent, and improve our reality. The gradual intensification of the desire for pleasure has been the forc...

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The Conundrums of Psychology

By: Sam Vaknin

...sm Revisited http://samvak.tripod.com/ Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. On Disease II. The Normal... ...ONIA C O N T E N T S I. On Disease II. The Normal Personality III. The Myth of Mental Illness IV. The DSM Pros and Cons V. The History of P... ...rmal Personality III. The Myth of Mental Illness IV. The DSM Pros and Cons V. The History of Personality Disorders VI. The Metaphors of Mind – The... ...V. The DSM Pros and Cons V. The History of Personality Disorders VI. The Metaphors of Mind – The Brain VII. The Metaphors of Mind - Psychotherapy ... ...hysical affects the mental and the other way around. This is what disciplines like psychiatry are all about. The ability to control "autonomous" bo... ...and mores does not guarantee normalcy. Think about anomic societies and periods of history such as Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Russia. Model citiz... ...y functional. Some scholars reject the concept of "normalcy" altogether. The anti-psychiatry movement object to the medicalization and pathologiza... ...sz, of the State University of New York, notes in his article "The Lying Truths of Psychiatry", mental health scholars, regardless of academic pred... ...ts - talk therapies as well as psychopharmacology. Back to Table of Contents The History of Personality Disorders First published here: "Perso...

The fundamental assumptions underlying the modern study of psychopathology examined.

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The Fundamental Assumptions Underlying the Modern Study of Psychopathology Examined.

By: Sam Vaknin

... The Developmental Psychology of Psychopathology 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. ... ...sm Revisited http://samvak.tripod.com/ Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S A. Notes on Developmental Psych... ... A. Notes on Developmental Psychology Brain and Personality Psychosexual Stages of Development Gender and Personality Disorders The Genetic Roots... ...etic and environmental contributions to dimensions of personality disorders. Am. J. Psychiatry. 150(O12):1826-31. On Dis-ease - click HERE! The ... ...the DSM-IV-TR [2000]. Or, as the Howard H. Goldman (Ed.) in the "Review of General Psychiatry" [4th Edition. London, Prentice Hall International, 1... ...se of grandiosity. The ethno-psychologist George Devereux [Basic Problems of Ethno-Psychiatry, University of Chicago Press, 1980] proposed to divid... ... it and together they created one of the most impressive theoretical bodies in the history of psychology. Fairbairn internalised Klein's insights t... ...onstruct which reflects gender role orientation. Joanne Meyerowitz, a professor of history at Indiana University and the editor of The Journal of A... ... of American History observes, in her recently published tome, "How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States", that the very m...

Psychopathology as the outcome of problems in early childhood development.

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Leaders

By: Sam Vaknin

...arcissistic ( ) Personality Disorder NPD The Narcissist's Entitlement of Routine – Pathological Narcissism A Dysfunction or a Blessing? ... ...sfunction or a Blessing? The Narcissist's Confabulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace Th... ...rcissist in the Workplace Narcissism in the Boardroom The Professions of the Narcissist Narcissists in Positions of Authority Narcissistic... ...prove with treatment. [Bibliography: Goldman, Howard H., Review of General Psychiatry, fourth edition, 1995. Prentice-Hall International, London. ... ...ael, Gath, Dennis, Mayou, Richard, Cowen, Philip (eds.), Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, third edition, 1996, reprinted 2000. Oxford University Pres... ...n, Yale University Press, 1988 2. Devereux, George. Basic Problems of Ethno- Psychiatry. University of Chicago Press, 1980 3. Fairbairn, W. R. D. An O... ...iduals it is comprised of, the stronger the bonds of locale, language, and history – the more rigorous might an assertion of a common pathology be.... ... many an object in its path." (G.W.F . Hegel, "Lectures on the Philosophy of History") "Such beings are incalculable, they come like fate without caus... ...ents. Their only duty is to the future. They are a-historical: they have no history and they are above history. Indeed, it is precisely this apparen...

...Narcissistic and psychopathic leaders come in all shapes and degrees of virulence. Learn to recognize them in various settings (the workplace, religion, politics) and to cope with the toxic fallout of their "leadership"....

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The Malignan Self Love : Narcissism Revisited

By: Sam Vaknin

...ale. Literary agents and publishers, please contact Lidija Rangelovska. To get FREE updates of this book JOIN the Narcissism Study List. To JOI... ...9989-929-06-8 Print ISBN: 978-80-238-3384-3 Created by: Lidija Rangelovska, Skopje REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA "Sam Vaknin is the world's leading ... ... National Background Briefing, July 18, 2004 "Sam Vaknin is a leading authority on the topic of narcissism." Lisa Angelettie M.S.W., BellaOnline... ...thing or to someone – we get used to ourselves. In the object of the habit we see a part of our history, all the time and effort we had put into it.... ...social edicts and mores does not guarantee normalcy. Think about anomic societies and periods of history such as Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Russia... ... and reasonably functional. Some scholars reject the concept of "normalcy" altogether. The anti-psychiatry movement object to the medicalization and... ...t, Thomas Szasz, of the State University of New York, notes in his article "The Lying Truths of Psychiatry", mental health scholars, regardless of a... ..., more profoundly and irreversibly. Medicines – as David Kaiser reminds us in "Against Biologic Psychiatry" [Psychiatric Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1... ...-dystonic). Others confine their lack of self-love to certain of their traits, to their personal history, or to some of their behaviour patterns. Ye...

...When the personality is rigid to the point of being unable to change in reaction to changing circumstances - we say that it is disordered. Such a person takes behavioral, emotional, and cognitive cues exclusively from others. His inner world is, so to speak, vacated. ...

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Abuse, Trauma, And Torture, And Their Consequences and Effects

By: Sam Vaknin

...cissistic ( ) Personality Disorder NPD The Narcissist's Entitlement of Routine – Pathological Narcissism A Dysfunction or a Blessing? ... ...sfunction or a Blessing? The Narcissist's Confabulated Life The Cult of the Narcissist Bibliography The Narcissist in the Workplace Th... ...rcissist in the Workplace Narcissism in the Boardroom The Professions of the Narcissist , , - Abuse Torture An Overview What is Abuse? Trau... ...prove with treatment. [Bibliography: Goldman, Howard H., Review of General Psychiatry, fourth edition, 1995. Prentice-Hall International, London. ... ...ael, Gath, Dennis, Mayou, Richard, Cowen, Philip (eds.), Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, third edition, 1996, reprinted 2000. Oxford University Pres... ...n, Yale University Press, 1988 2. Devereux, George. Basic Problems of Ethno- Psychiatry. University of Chicago Press, 1980 3. Fairbairn, W. R. D. An O... ...iduals it is comprised of, the stronger the bonds of locale, language, and history – the more rigorous might an assertion of a common pathology be.... ...one's body, a unique temple and a familiar territory of sensa and personal history. The torturer invades, defiles and desecrates this shrine. He do... ...– are only partly useful in answering this question." "An individual's work history may provide little help in making the distinction. Highly distur...

...The effects on victims and survivors of traumatic experiences, long-term and repeated abuse, and torture. Includes in-depth profile of the Narcissistic Abuser and hundreds of links to literature and resources....

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...le of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third parties toward... ...perty are secondary asymmetries, not primary ones. There have been periods in human history and there have been cultures devoid of either or both. T... ...w it "selected"? The Universe is constrained in this "selection process" by its own history, but its history is not synonymous with the Laws of Natu... ...lf evident: the Universe "selected" both the Natural Laws and, as a result, its own history, in a process akin to Natural Selection. Whatever increa... ...oty. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV-TR (2000), the bible of psychiatry, kleptomaniacs feel "pleasure, gratification, or reli... ...hysical affects the mental and the other way around. This is what disciplines like psychiatry are all about. The ability to control "autonomous" bo... ...sz, of the State University of New York, notes in his article "The Lying Truths of Psychiatry", mental health scholars, regardless of academic pred...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...le of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third parties toward... ...perty are secondary asymmetries, not primary ones. There have been periods in human history and there have been cultures devoid of either or both. T... ...w it "selected"? The Universe is constrained in this "selection process" by its own history, but its history is not synonymous with the Laws of Natu... ...lf evident: the Universe "selected" both the Natural Laws and, as a result, its own history, in a process akin to Natural Selection. Whatever increa... ...oty. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV-TR (2000), the bible of psychiatry, kleptomaniacs feel "pleasure, gratification, or reli... ...hysical affects the mental and the other way around. This is what disciplines like psychiatry are all about. The ability to control "autonomous" bo... ...sz, of the State University of New York, notes in his article "The Lying Truths of Psychiatry", mental health scholars, regardless of academic pred...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...l Motivations 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ................................................................................................................................. 17 Combinations of Nee... ... learn and how we perceive things that I don‘t want to confuse you. I could probably start at a hundred different points, but let‘s go back in histor... ...ed on modern neuroscience. But there is no question that his insights were critical to Western thinking. He was one of the great minds of our histor... ...rtainly there are things that need to be learned by rote—spelling, writing, the multiplication tables, and so forth. But video games can teach histor... ... 138 13.Fromm, Erich, Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Apr., 1990 Vol. 26, pp 305-330.--Originally appeared in Psychi... ... 21, 1994) 18. Blazer, D.G. "The prevalence and distribution of major depression in a national community sample. "American Journal of Psychi... ...kins University, 1994. pp. 5-6. 20. Bruce, M. et al. "Anxiogenic effects of caffeine in patients with anxiety disorders." Archives of General Psychi...

...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

... 1 . “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 3 My Visit to Kino A Modern Sino-Provin... ...-Province 2 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 3 MY VISIT TO KINO by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-2-5 3 able of Contents GLOBAL POLICIES ................................................ ...................................................................... 7 THE HISTORY OF CHINA ............................................................ ...e in the ways of business and statesmanship. All this in a brief moment of history. It‟s like a cosmic Siegfried and Roy changing a paper tiger into... ...university at Timbuktu and to the Muslim scholars to its east. There was a history of great philosophers of Greece—Democritus, Aristotle, Plato, Socr... ...l all your mental and physical health needs. Whether it‘s plastic surgery, psychiatry or pep pills, you search for a better self through science—not...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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Speculations and Physics

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

... http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S PH YSI CS I. Time Asymmetry Re... ... PH YSI CS I. Time Asymmetry Re-Visited II. Negentropic Agents and the Increase of Entropy III. The Complexity of Simplicity IV. Bestowed Exist... ...tropy III. The Complexity of Simplicity IV. Bestowed Existence V. The Decoherence of Measurement VI. The Quantum of Continuity VII. Quantum Mecha... ...w it "selected"? The Universe is constrained in this "selection process" by its own history, but its history is not synonymous with the Laws of Natu... ...lf evident: the Universe "selected" both the Natural Laws and, as a result, its own history, in a process akin to Natural Selection. Whatever increa... ..." at low energies. But otherwise SM is one of the more successful theories in the history of physics. It renormalized QFT and, thus, re-defined ma... ...undly and irreversibly. Medicines as David Kaiser reminds us in " Against Biologic Psychiatry " (Psychiatric Times, Volume XIII, Issue 12, December... ...z, of the State University of New York, notes in his article " The Lying Truths of Psychiatry " , mental health scholars, regardless of academic pr... ...amps was and is a crucial matter. Consider the clash - however repressed - between psychiatry and psychology. The former regards "mental disorders"...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast A... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ...9 2 Table of Contents THE COUNTRY OF SINGALING ........................................ ... factor in the minds of the Oriental leaders whose multi- 9 millennial history is not based on the pragmatism of profit found in the West. But, as... ...ians, particularly to Chinese and Indians. It has been obvious throughout history that we all want our families and our societies to be as similarly... ...rn the languages. They are also tested on their knowledge of our customs, history and philosophy. Then they have to be ready to immerse themselves i... ...in the Wings. Fiscal Studies: 26:1 (2005) pp. 5-34 2. Archives of General Psychiatry, Sept. 2007 73 3. American Academy of Pediatrics, vol. 1...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism

By: Mary Mills Patrick

... SEXTUS EMPIRICUS AND GREEK SCEPTICISM A Thesis accepted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Bern Switzerland, November... ...ty of Bern Switzerland, November 1897 BY MARY MILLS PATRICK PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE, CONSTANTINOPLE TURKEY This Thesis is accomp... ...OPLE TURKEY This Thesis is accompanied by a Translation from the Greek of the First Book of the "Pyrrhonic Sketches" by Sextus Empiricus CA... ...—38. Zeller, Philosophie der Griechen, III. Auf., Leipzig, 1879—89. Lewes, History of Philosophy, Vol. I., London, 1866. Ueberweg, History of Philo... ...rcus Aurelius. [5] This is accepted by Zeller in the second edition of his History of Philosophy, but not in the third for the reason that Sextus, ... ...e also lectures, then Sextus taught in Alexandria as well as elsewhere. The history of Eastern literature for the centuries immediately following the... ...s us that Sextus' thought is more in harmony with the discoveries of modern psychiatry than with the philosophy of Kant. If the sentence, ἴζσο δὲ θαὶ...

...The following treatise on Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism has been prepared to supply a need much felt in the English language by students of Greek philosophy. For while other schools of Greek philosophy have been exhaustively and critically discussed by English scholars, there are few sources of information available to the student who wishes to make himself fa...

...“Interest has revived in the works of Sextus Empiricus in recent times, especially, one may say, since the date of Herbart. There is much in the writings of Sextus that finds a parallel in the methods of modern philosophy. There is a common starting-point in t...

...The Historical Relations Of Sextus Empiricus-Introductory paragraph.—The name of Sextus Empiricus. His profession.—The time when he lived.—The place of his birth.—The seat of the Sceptical School while Sextus was at its head.—The character of the wri...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ...r © 2008 ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................... ...uld it vary? 19 Should every rule be universal—never changing through history? The Ten Commandments are such a universal moral code. What if Hit... ... devil? Global warming is an alarmist misreading of a natural blip in the history of climate. There is no overpopulation problem—there is plenty roo... ... not depend on an air of confidence or a posture of certainty. Throughout history progress has been stymied because ignorant people have been in lead... ... that in rich Norway, as far back as 2008, they started cutting benefits. Psychiatry was cut, as was heart care, emergency clinics and some child ne... ...hing to do. ―I remember taking a class from a dynamic professor of psychiatry at U.C.L.A., Dr. Louis West. He was probably one of the two or ... ...Wechkin S. and Terris W. ―Altrusistic Behavior in Rhesus Monkeys,‖ Am. J. Psychiatry, 121:Dec 1964, 584-5 85. Deut 5:12-15 86. Lundmark 2000, cited...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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The Open Book

By: Rav Michael Laitman

...dies The Open Book Author: Kabbalist Rav Michael Laitman, PhD Table of Contents 1. The Meaning Of My Life 2. View on Evolution from the Per... ...ts 1. The Meaning Of My Life 2. View on Evolution from the Perspective of Kabbalah 3. Reincarnation 4. Kabbalah is a Science 5. About the Struc... ...bbalah 3. Reincarnation 4. Kabbalah is a Science 5. About the Structure of Creation 6. About the World 7. The Purpose of Reincarnation According ... ...nge the consequence that stems from it, here in this world. Throughout the history of mankind, providence has compelled man to study the world around... ...alah. It can never be used in order to inflict harm, and throughout human history there is not a single testimony of such an act. The leaders of the... ...t compare our emotions with any accuracy (and who knows if psychology and psychiatry will ever come to that understanding), we are compelled to use ... ...h the Creator, or fear from his officers and armies. The entire religious history of mankind testifies to man’s inability to keep, or demand from oth...

...The Open Book presents the principles of the ancient scientific wisdom of authentic Kabbalah, along with explanations of its basic rules. Kabbalah is a practical method for transcending the limits of one's senses and acquiring a new sense that opens the gate to t...

... longer deny reality. Humanity continuously seeks logical justification to our existence. Man has tried to inquire and interpret nature for thousands of years. Contemporary scientists have learned that the more they progress in their scientific research, the more the picture of the world that they discover becomes obscure and difficult to grasp. Contemporary science books ...

...Table of Contents 1 The Meaning of My Life 2 View on Evolution from the Perspective of Kabbalah 3 Reincarnation 4 Kabbalah is a Science 5 About the Structure of Creation 6 About the World 7 The Purpose of Reincarnatio...

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The Public Domain : Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

By: James Boyle

.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2... ...ny Kelley, a brilliant composer, not only educated me in composition and the history of musical borrowing but co-taught a class on musical borrowing t... ...spired and informed by colleagues and students in computer science, English, history, and political science. But the work I am describing here is—as t... ... rules that define prop- erty in the information age. It is that problem, its history, philosophy, and politics that I try to sketch out in the pages a... ...be more “valuable” than the needs of the destitute. We may spend more on pet psychiatry for the traumatized poodles on East 71st Street than on develo...

...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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Interview with the Future

By: Rav Michael Laitman

... Science to Understand Reality 1. A Hidden World 2. Gravity 3. The Power of a Directed desire 4. Proper Development 5. The sin of Creation and the... ...opment 5. The sin of Creation and the Correction A. The Sin B. The Laws of Correction 6. In the End of Days 7. The Spiritual Gene and the Reshimo... .... The Four Elements that Comprise Us 4. The Right Environment 5. The Law of Equivalence of Attributes 6. The power of thought 7. A Chosen People ... ...asting War 1. Eternal War Appendix A: From the Authentic Sources 1. The History of Kabbalah 2. Writing a Book of Kabbalah 3 of 263 Inter... ...has so far failed to find the cure for its pains throughout its tormented history. But man can help himself! He must only learn to manage his own l... ...ews was to go into exile and mingle with other nations and go through the history of the gradual evolution from the reshimot of the beastly level i.... ...lah can teach you biology, chemistry, physics, you name it. You can learn psychiatry through it, or learn why the universe is built the way it is, ...

... What is the source of our personal suffering and the suffering of humanity? The vicious circle of human suffering has been idly turning for thousands of years as if without cause, and with no escape. Is this really so? Today we are learning tha...

...Preface: Part 1: A Science to Understand Reality // 1. A Hidden World // 2. Gravity // 3. The Power of a Directed desire // 4. Proper Development // 5. The sin of Creation and the Correction // A. The Sin // B. The Laws of Correction // 6. In the End of Days // 7. The Spiritual Gene and the Reshimot ......

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... write 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-revi... ...et http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neg... ...O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neglected Branch II. The Misconception of Scarcity III. The Roller Coaster Market – On Volatility IV.... ... of Stock Trends": "The science of recording, usually in graphic form, the actual history of trading (price changes, volume of transactions, etc.)... ... etc.) in a certain stock or in 'the averages' and then deducing from that pictured history the probable future trend." Fundamental analysis is abo... ...lation and asset bubbles is unclear. On the one hand, some of the greatest fizz in history occurred during periods of disinflation. One is reminded... ...oty. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV-TR (2000), the bible of psychiatry, kleptomaniacs feel "pleasure, gratification, or reli...

Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ... Pg 598 Inflation Pg 607 Modern Racism Pg 609 Ego-gratification Pg 625 History Pg 694 The Unclearness of History Pg 694 Wisdom Pg 697 In... ...210 Human Wisdom Pg 1220 Bicycle Cards Pg 1221 Intelligence Pg 1224 Pre-History and Ancient History Pg 1266 Burial of the Dead Pg 1268 Deca... ...cious Pg 1393 Social Form and Function Pg 1395 The Power of Myth Pg 1397 History and Myth Pg 1398 Midas and Croesus Pg 1401 Progress and Ret... ...ss for all living organisms. The reason most forms of counseling, therapy, psychiatry, and psychology have such a bad track record; is that they ...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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Died and Moved In

By: Christine Jones

...ooks.net Copyright © 2007 by Christine Jones. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,... ...m, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product... ...f fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance ... ...I will ask a thousand and one questions, attempting to extract one’s life history before he can escape my clutches. My first question is to determin... ...want to ring someone; preferably a doctor with a huge bachelors degree in psychiatry. 28 “Put your face back on Sis; you look like this dead rat beh... ...like a man, I took the full brunt of Barb’s cleaning bill. Anyway, that’s history. I don’t mix drinks anymore and I eat chips instead of peanuts.” “... ...It’s fascinating how family members just love to inform you of their life history and everyone else’s for that matter. I now know the names, address...

...to win his heart in the most embarrassing ways. A family tragedy turns her life upside down and her little farm into spook central. Learn the secrets of the after life; you too may have many freeloaders at your address and not all were once human. Australian author Christine Jones writes for many genres from science fiction fantasy to humor. Though the characters in this b...

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El delincuente psiquiátrico (The Psychiatric Offender) : Visión histórica, su problemática en México y una propuesta criminológica (Historical vision, it’s problematic in Mexico and a criminological proposal): Visión histórica, su problemática en México y una propuesta criminológica (Historical vision, it’s problematic in Mexico and a criminological proposal)

By: LIC Roberto Alonso Ramos Erosa

...ient times mental illnesses did not have the same explanation that we give them today. Following the positivist school, all demonological explanation of psychopathologies was left behind. The advances in psychology and psychiatry allowed to have a greater understanding on the functioning of the mind of the human being, and inevitably that led to the study of the psychiatri...

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The Shrouded Satanism in Feudal Languages : Tribulations and Intractability of Improving Others

By: Ved from Victoria Institutions

...This book I wrote, I presume, in 2013. It is a huge book of epic parameters. The basic underlying theme is the essential difference, planar-languages has with feudal-languages. Feudal languages are quite powerful, in that, the moment they are spoken, the social structure an...

...Essence of improving Now this brings us to the essential question of: what is improving others? The easiest ideas would be giving them food, giving them education, giving them dress and such other things. Well, food is an essentia...

...01. INTRODUCTION 02. Essence of improving 03. Command codes in the language software 04. SPONTANEOUS BLOCK TO INFORMATION 05. Forgetting as a social art 06. What the Colonial British faced 07. The third quandary 08. A personal briefing 09. Fifth i...

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