Face to Face with Buried Traumas: Personality Disorders as Survival Adaptations
The ego is essential for integrating the inner and outer world, regulating drives, and providing a sense of continuity and personal identity. In narcissists, the ego is non-existent, and a false self takes over, draining their energy and creating a distorted perception of reality. This false self is rigid and unable to adapt to life’s challenges, making narcissists fragile and defensive. The true self becomes isolated and atrophied, leaving the narcissist at the mercy of their false self.
Pandemic as Collective Narcissistic Injury: Headless and Chickens
The pandemic is a collective narcissistic injury to all of us because we were living in a narcissistic civilization. We have developed a civilization that was highly narcissistic and highly psychopathic, where values such as ambition, competitiveness, defiance, hatred of authority, despising the intellect and expertise, promiscuity, lack of impulse control, faking it till you make it, always became the core values of our civilization. The pandemic caused a collective narcissistic injury to all of us, and we are all developing post-traumatic stress disorders. We need to be humble and realize how fragile we are, how ephemeral, how transient.
womanmotherNarcissist’s Partner: Admire Me, Play with Me, Mother Me
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses the three stages of a narcissist’s interaction with women: admirer, playmate, and mother. Narcissists are incapable of adult intimacy with women and instead seek a mother figure, as their only experience of intimacy with a woman was with their own mother. When women refuse to adopt the role of a mother, narcissists resent them and may push them away. Narcissists are more focused on possession and control than romantic jealousy, reacting like a child when their partner shows interest in other men.
Brain, Brawn, Body, Bluff: Narcissists, Somatic, Covert, Cerebral, and Classic
Narcissists can be either somatic or cerebral, depending on whether they use their physical appearance or intellect to obtain supply. While there is no constancy, there is type dominance, with cerebral narcissists emphasizing their intellect and somatic narcissists emphasizing their physical appearance. Narcissists are competitive and ambitious in sex, using their partner’s body as an animated dildo or masturbatory object. Covert narcissists, who are mostly women, tend to be largely asexual due to deep-set inferiority complexes and body dysmorphic disorders. They may engage in body-altering behaviors such as surgeries and look-maxing, which is more prevalent among covert somatic narcissists. Altruism can also be a form of ostentatious narcissism.
ET to the Rescue: Narcissists and Psychopaths as Aliens – Part 1
Narcissists and psychopaths are often compared to aliens, as they lack empathy and a workable theory of mind. They view themselves as machines or robots and believe they are superior to most people. The video then discusses the possibility of extraterrestrial life and the six possible explanations for why we have not encountered aliens. The author also raises the question of how we can distinguish alien artifacts from naturally occurring objects and if we can recognize them as intelligent lifeforms if we have nothing in common with them.
Vaccination Primer and COVID-19 Good News
Sam Vaknin discusses various topics, including his background, medical studies, offers he received, and the pandemic. He delves into vaccines, the immune system, and the potential COVID-19 vaccine. He expresses caution about universal vaccination and advocates for thorough clinical trials.
Church of COVID-19 Censors Free Speech
Professor Sam Vaknin claims that YouTube has deleted his videos on COVID-19, despite them containing no conspiracy theories and being thoroughly researched. He suggests that his disagreement with the dogma of universal social distancing may have led to this censorship. Vaknin argues that YouTube’s behaviour is dangerous and could lead to the suppression of free speech on other issues. He also questions whether Google’s financial interests in the pandemic could be influencing YouTube’s actions.
Rejection and Abandonment in Cluster B Personality Disorders and Their Intimate
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses how individuals with Cluster B personality disorders react to rejection. He explains that these individuals have difficulty distinguishing between their internal and external worlds, leading to confusion and a reliance on their bodies to communicate with their minds. Each type of Cluster B personality disorder reacts differently to rejection: narcissists with rage, primary psychopaths with aggression, secondary psychopaths with a mix of emotions, classic borderlines with extreme splitting, and histrionics with attempts to restore self-esteem. All Cluster B personality disorders tend to somatize, using their bodies to regulate their internal environment.
Narcissist: Traumatized Child Invents God, Then Abuses (with Charles Bowes-Taylor)
Sam Vaknin discusses the concept of narcissism and how it is a product of childhood trauma and abuse. He explains that narcissists have no self or ego and must outsource functions such as feedback and input from others to form an opinion of themselves and the world around them. Sam also suggests that narcissism is a metaphor for our times and captures perfectly our civilization. He argues that narcissism is a positive adaptation that helps individuals obtain favorable outcomes in the world, and that very few narcissists feel shame or have an incentive to change.
Narcissist, Pedophilia, Hebephilia and The Invented Child (ENGLISH responses)
Pedophiles are not only attracted to children, with a majority being heterosexual and having families of their own. The drive to have sex with children is ancient and until recently was codified in the law. The concept of childhood is a new concept, and as it was invented, prohibitions on certain interactions with children were introduced. The risk of incest and active pedophilia is much higher with narcissists and psychopaths, and inappropriate behavior with children must be aggressively defended against with these individuals.