Inner Child Second Chance: Using Psychosis to Heal NPD, BPD
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses the progression from childhood psychosis to mental health and how it can go awry, leading to narcissism, borderline personality disorder, or psychopathy. He explains that all children start in a state of psychosis, and as they grow, they should transition to a healthy mental state. However, if this process is disrupted, the child may develop borderline personality disorder or narcissism. Decompensation in therapy can lead to regression, allowing the inner child to start again from the psychotic phase and progress to health with the help of a therapist.
Covert, Women Narcissists Make It Into NEW DSM 5-TR
The DSM-5 acknowledges covert or vulnerable narcissists and accepts parity between women and men in terms of being diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder. However, the DSM-5 is still disappointing and the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Committee is still somewhat influenced by the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. The DSM-5 introduces dimensional models for personality disorders, which represent maladaptive variants of personality traits that merge imperceptibly into normality and into one another. The DSM’s alternative model for narcissistic personality disorder specifies typical features of narcissistic personality disorder are variable and vulnerable self-esteem, with attempts at regulation through attention and approval seeking, and either overt or covert grandiosity.
Transformed Against Your Will Behind Narcissist’s Glass, Darkly (with Luke Elijah)
Dr. Sam Vaknin, a professor of psychology and finance, discusses the differences between bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, and psychopathy. He advises against confronting narcissists on their toxic behaviors and explains the psychology behind gaslighting and hoovering. Dr. Vaknin believes that while narcissists can change their behaviors, their internal state remains unchanged. He also clarifies the concept of healthy narcissism and expresses concern about the misinformation surrounding narcissism online.
Brain Neuroplasticity: Neuroscience Of Self States
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses neuroplasticity and its implications for the concept of a unitary self. He also touches on the four S’s of a narcissist’s intimate partner and delves into various psychological phenomena such as ambivalence, cognitive dissonance, and compartmentalization. Vaknin provides a detailed breakdown of different types of neuroplasticity and their impact on the brain’s ability to change and adapt. He also challenges traditional models of psychology and identity, advocating for a self-states model.
Collapse Variants Of Somatic Narcissism, Wounded Borderline Self Trashing
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses the mispronunciation of “ketamine” and delves into the topic of narcissism and sexuality. He explains the differences between cerebral and somatic narcissists, and how they transition between these states, often experiencing collapse. Additionally, he explores the behavior of borderline women in response to abandonment, and the connection between collapse and personality disorder transitions.
Mentally Ill: Bail Out, Save Yourself – Not THEM!
Mentally ill people often emotionally blackmail others into becoming their rescuers, and once they have, they want to infect them with their illness. This is because they want to share their pain and feel accepted. However, mentally ill people do not want to be helped, and they have strong resistances and defenses against healing. Therefore, it is important to harden your heart and walk away from mentally ill people to save yourself.
How Borderline Lures, Captivates You
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses the strategies that borderline personality disorder women use to keep their partners hooked. He explains that the borderline woman is multifarious, ephemeral, and shimmering, and that she uses drama, approach avoidance, idealization, triangulation, and other tactics to keep her partner addicted to her. He also notes that the borderline’s neediness and clinging cater to the partner’s grandiosity, and that the borderline’s ability to impair the partner’s reality testing is essentially unlimited. Finally, he warns that relationships with borderlines are exceedingly destructive for both parties.
Shapeshifting Borderline, Morphing Narcissist Identity Disturbance
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses the concept of self-states in individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD), noting that BPD individuals switch between different personalities and identities. He explains the three types of identity disturbance, which include cyclical, allotropic, and object-related identity disturbance. Patients with borderline personality disorder have disturbances in the structural level of selfhood, resulting in an incomplete sense of substance, substantiality, embodiment, and a feeling of having divorced their own body. Narcissistic pathology is a more egregious form of the borderline pathology, and both the borderline and their typically narcissistic partner try to appropriate the other person’s identity as a sound and medicine to their own identity disturbance and knowing emptiness.
Psychopathic, Covert Borderlines (Literature Review)
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses the concept of covert borderline personality disorder and its distinctions from psychopathic and antisocial borderlines. He delves into the characteristics and behaviors of covert borderlines, including their self-states, emotional dysregulation, and interpersonal relationships. Vaknin also presents recent literature and research findings on the association between psychopathy and borderline personality disorder, as well as the challenges in mentalizing and transparency estimation in individuals with borderline features.
Your Narcissist: Madman or Genius? (Based on News Intervention Interview)
Narcissists often claim to be geniuses, but Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a serious mental health problem. It is difficult to tell the difference between a genius and a madman, but the scientific method can help by applying a test of falsifiability. Narcissists often make predictions that fail time and again, while geniuses’ predictions hold water for long stretches of time. Narcissism is a problem of nurture, a problem of the environment, and abuse and trauma suffered in early childhood.