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

By: Sam Vaknin

...rst appeared as a mental health diagnosis in the DSM- III-TR (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) in 1980. Diagnostic Criteria The ICD-10, the Internat... ...c Association, based in Washington D.C., USA, publishes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition, Text Revision (D... ...t school, sociability – deteriorates markedly. The DSM-IV-TR (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) criteria for diagnosing PTSD are far too restrictive... ...d Narcissist The Clinical Picture and Developmental Roots - Opening Remarks Terminology Codependents People who depend on other people for their emot... ... Dependent Personality Disorder - or its definition in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV-TR, 2000). Inverted Narcissist Also called "co...

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Narcissism Book of Quotes

By: Sam Vaknin

...nfronted. Summarised from: American Psychiatric Association (2000). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition, text ... ...een narcissism and the Antisocial Personality Disorder (AsPD or psychopaths, in the old terminology) are: 1. Inability or unwillingness to control ...

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The Conundrums of Psychology

By: Sam Vaknin

...e of mental health the third question is often formulated as "is it normal" (=is it statistically the norm of this particular society in this partic... ...lly in almost every area of psychological functioning." (p. 2) The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)) IV-TR (2000), published by the America... ...lurks the question: what constitutes normal behavior? Who is normal? There is the statistical response: the average and the common are normal. But... ...he functional school regard mental health disorders as perturbations in the proper, statistically "normal", behaviours and manifestations of "health... ... deeply ingrained, maladaptive, lifelong behavior patterns – in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fourth edition, text revision [American Psyc... ...ypologies and predictions. A scientific theory should resort to primitive (atomic) terminology and all its complex (derived) terms and concepts sho... ...th of empirical support for its assertions and fundaments, by the ambiguity of its terminology and ontology, by the derision of "proper" scientists...

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The Malignan Self Love : Narcissism Revisited

By: Sam Vaknin

...sed automatically in almost every area of psychological functioning." [p. 2] The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)) IV-TR [2000], published b... ...e background lurks the question: what constitutes normal behaviour? Who is normal? There is the statistical response: the average and the common ar... ... members of the functional school regard mental health disorders as perturbations in the proper, statistically "normal", behaviours and manifestatio... ...ry and Genetics of Mental Health Certain mental health afflictions are either correlated with a statistically abnormal biochemical activity in the b... ... designate a pattern of behaviour as a mental health disorder is a value judgement, or at best a statistical observation. Such designation is effect... ...cissism. The child merges the idealized aspects of the images of his parents (Imagos, in Kohut's terminology) with those wide segments of the image ... ...ers of the Narcissism List THE CLINICAL PICTURE AND DEVELOPMENTAL ROOTS – OPENING REMARKS Terminology Co-Dependents There is great confusion...

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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...rative data from several localities or over a long period, and also to use statistical methods. In Lampang Province, I have compared three villages th... ...rts of the province. In my previous study (1979) I applied non- parametric statistical analysis, but the present project contains only frequency data ... ...ected the villagers' lives and is reflected in their accounts. Comparative statistical data was collected by questionnaires which were returned by mor... ...ore. In Thailand, too, villagers have wanted to be self-sufficient. In the terminology of national economy, the village has produced and consumed toge... ...schen Volkskultur 2 (Sarmela 2000a), which contains a list of references. Statistical data on Finland is produced by Statistics Finland (www.stat.fi... ...entre for Welfare and Health (www.stakes.fi); on Thailand by the National Statistical Office of the Prime Minister (Thailand Official Yearbook; www.... ...d a house for his family within his in-laws’ compound. In anthropological terminology, this type of residence is uxorilocal (matrilocal). According t... ... or sisters older or younger than themselves, and in the same way, kinship terminology also discloses whether e.g. the mother's or father's brother is... ...responding age-ranking distinctions have also been used in Finnish kinship terminology. Informants of this book also always define whether they are ta...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... in localized, open systems, order sometimes tends to increase and, by definition, statistical entropy tends to decrease. This is the orthodoxy. Pe... ... because the world is orderly and getting ever more so. Had this not been the case, statistically evenly-scattered events would have led to an incre... ... would have led to an increase in entropy (thermodynamic laws are the offspring of statistical mechanics). But this simply does not happen. And it... ... to steal, even if they have no use for the booty. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV-TR (2000), the bible of psychiatry, klepto... ...e of mental health the third question is often formulated as "is it normal" (=is it statistically the norm of this particular society in this partic... ...component of any legal battle, especially one involving interpretations, ambiguous terminology and the substantiation of intentions. The President ... ...e justice" deals with the just allocation of scarce resources. Yet, even the basic terminology is somewhat fuzzy. What constitutes a resource? what... ...pologies and predictions. A scientific theory should resort to primitive (atomic) terminology and all its complex (derived) terms and concepts sho... ...ypologies and predictions. A scientific theory should resort to primitive (atomic) terminology and all its complex (derived) terms and concepts sho...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... in localized, open systems, order sometimes tends to increase and, by definition, statistical entropy tends to decrease. This is the orthodoxy. Pe... ... because the world is orderly and getting ever more so. Had this not been the case, statistically evenly-scattered events would have led to an incre... ... would have led to an increase in entropy (thermodynamic laws are the offspring of statistical mechanics). But this simply does not happen. And it... ... to steal, even if they have no use for the booty. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV-TR (2000), the bible of psychiatry, klepto... ...e of mental health the third question is often formulated as "is it normal" (=is it statistically the norm of this particular society in this partic... ...component of any legal battle, especially one involving interpretations, ambiguous terminology and the substantiation of intentions. The President ... ...e justice" deals with the just allocation of scarce resources. Yet, even the basic terminology is somewhat fuzzy. What constitutes a resource? what... ...pologies and predictions. A scientific theory should resort to primitive (atomic) terminology and all its complex (derived) terms and concepts sho... ...ypologies and predictions. A scientific theory should resort to primitive (atomic) terminology and all its complex (derived) terms and concepts sho...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... over-fitting can be a problem, its rules are often difficult to interpret, and the statistical testing is cumbersome - he insists that "trading rul... ...t "trading rules are picking up patterns in the data not accounted for by standard statistical models" and that the excess returns thus generated a... ... justice" deals with the just allocation of scarce resources. Yet, even the basic terminology is somewhat fuzzy. What constitutes a resource? what... ...ent by the day. It would do well to lose its mathematical pretensions and adopt the statistical methods of its humbler relative. The second fallac... ... to steal, even if they have no use for the booty. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV-TR (2000), the bible of psychiatry, klepto... ...ages (and its numerical control and its purified hyper-rational/scientific method: statistical mechanics). The avalanche of video technologies, fil... ...ribed with ones and zeroes, etc.) – it is really a software application, in today's terminology. It carries out instructions, reads and writes, coun...

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

...posed methodology for market segmentation research, contains a heavy complement of statistical details. It may be perused lightly by the reader not... ...rocess. Marketing researchers have a procedure called multidimensional scaling for statistically exploring virtually any number of attributes. This... ...While that point is substantively consonant with the thesis of this chapter, their terminology is believed to be less than accurate. The expression ... ...eams into realities. Having satisfied biological and safety needs, to use Maslow's terminology, we now have the luxury of pursuing ego, belongingnes...

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The Analysis of Mind

By: Bertrand Russell

...o do, that every unconscious wish was once conscious, and was then, in his terminology, “repressed” because we disapproved of it. On the contrary, we ... ...ired relation to our present remem- bering. What, if we followed Meinong’s terminology, we should call the “object” in memory, i.e. the past event whi... ...other than the general laws of physics, i.e. those which, according to our terminology, involve vital movements as opposed to merely mechanical moveme... ...eling of memory-belief is just the same, and only what is remembered *This terminology is suggested by Meinong, but is not exactly the same as his. 1... ...ng such laws. It is, however, still no more than a rough generalization, a statistical average. It cannot tell us what will result from a given cause ...

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