Militant Feminism, Teen Sexual Grooming, Borderline Types (Interview Excerpts)
Classic borderline women become secondary psychopaths when faced with rejection and abandonment, while covert and psychopathic borderlines become primary psychopaths in intimate settings. The rise of militant feminism in the 1960s led to a divide between men and women, with both adopting toxic traits of the opposite gender. This has resulted in a decline in marriage rates and an increase in single individuals. Lastly, grandiose narcissists are now believed to be a form of psychopathy, with true narcissists being compensatory in nature.
Why Do They Infuriate YOU? Promiscuity and Compulsive Sexting
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses the reactions people have to narcissists and psychopaths, analyzing the phenomenon using concepts like life promiscuity and sexual promiscuity. He delves into the characteristics and behaviors of psychopaths, including their lack of insight, evasiveness, and lack of boundaries. He also explores the correlation between promiscuity and mental health disorders, as well as the impact of compulsive sexting. Additionally, he touches on the dynamics of intimate partner cheating and promiscuity in relation to schizoid cerebral narcissism.
Meaningful Casual Sex, One Night Stands: Their Emotions and Psychology
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses the psychology of casual sex and one-night stands, arguing that they are not meaningless or emotionless experiences. He explains that casual sex involves a spectrum of activities and is a continuum, with one-night stands being a part of it. Vaknin highlights that casual sex and one-night stands involve trust, safety, suspension of defenses, and exposure of vulnerabilities, which are all elements of intimacy. Despite people’s claims that these encounters are emotionless and meaningless, Vaknin argues that the emotional reactions and physiological changes that occur during and after casual sex prove otherwise.
Sex, Love with “The Other”: Singlehood, Heterophily, and Exogamy
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses the impact of disrupted object relations on the sex drive and the decline in sex as a language of communication. He also talks about the shift in gender roles and the rise of narcissism and psychopathy among women who have been subjected to abuse and complex trauma. Vaknin notes that men have become more effeminate, while women prefer better males who are submissive, kind, empathic, and nice. He predicts that technology will eventually provide people with artificial synthetic sex partners, leading to the end of human relatedness and communication.
YOU: Dead Inside or Self-sufficient?
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses how self-sufficiency is often mistaken for pathological behaviors and traits. He explains that true self-sufficiency is self-sustaining, involves firm personal boundaries, and a stable sense of self-worth. However, people often confuse self-sufficiency with behaviors exhibited by narcissists, psychopaths, and individuals with borderline personality disorder, who are actually dependent on others and exhibit counter-dependency. Vaknin emphasizes that these individuals are not self-sufficient, but rather empty and devoid of a true sense of self.
Why Cerebral Narcissist Chooses YOU
Cerebral narcissists choose sexually incompatible partners for six reasons: 1) to maintain a morally superior victim stance, 2) to test their partner’s unconditional love and allegiance, 3) to control their partner through guilt and shame, 4) to legitimize their defiance and contempt for their partner, 5) to forgive their partner and feel like a benevolent figure, and 6) to give their partner freedom while maintaining their own schizoid lifestyle. Cerebral narcissists are repelled by physicality and only engage in sex when hunting for a new partner to embed in a shared fantasy.
Narcissist’s Give and Take with Intimate Partner (Cheating on Cerebral Narcissist Schizoid)
In this video, Professor Sam Vaknin discusses the behavior of schizoid and cerebral narcissists in relationships. He explains why they allow their partners to cheat and how they react to it. Vaknin draws from his database of narcissists and his personal experience as a schizoid cerebral narcissist to support his points. He also delves into the reasons behind the narcissist’s behavior and the impact on their partners.
Why Do You Stay, Narcissist Cheats, Both Triangulate?
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses the reasons why people stay in relationships and why they cheat. He explains that people stay in relationships due to financial security, guilt, pity, shared memories, and societal pressures. Additionally, he delves into the reasons why narcissists cheat, attributing it to seeking narcissistic supply, frustration, and boredom, defiance, and pathological demand avoidance. He also discusses the concept of triangulation and its impact on relationships.
Low or No Sex Drive: Disambiguation Guide
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses the typology of people with low or no sex drive, including asexuals, hyposexuals, schizoids, and cerebral narcissists. These types are autoerotic, but their other directed sexuality is impaired or non-existent. The underlying psychological issue is that these people do not need other people, and this lack of interrelatedness to other people manifests and expresses itself in their sexuality. The DSM-5 splits hyposexuality into two parts: male hypoactive sexual desire disorder and female sexual interest arousal disorder. However, the causes of hyposexuality are largely unknown, and it is essential to rule out medical, hormonal, and psychiatric issues before intervening.
Narcissistic Grief in Pandemic (Intl. Conference on Psychiatry and Mental Health)
Professor Sam Vaknin discussed the narcissist’s conflicted attitude towards disability, illness, and accidents, and how it ties into the COVID-19 pandemic. He explained that the pandemic has elicited two types of responses: grief-related responses and narcissistic defenses. Narcissists, especially somatic narcissists, are more likely to experience coronaphobia or generalized anxiety disorders than the general population. Vaknin also touched upon the five-stage model of grieving and how it applies to people’s reactions to the pandemic.