How Trauma Breaks You Apart (Structural Dissociation in Cold Therapy)
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses the opening of a new YouTube channel and responds to a comment about a theory in psychology. He delves into the theory of structural dissociation and its application to trauma and personality disorders. He also discusses the interaction between the apparently normal part and the emotional part in the context of trauma and dissociation. He suggests that all personality disorders should be reconceived as post-traumatic conditions.
How To Recognize Collapsed/Covert Personality Disorders
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses the concept of Occam’s Razor in science and proposes that all personality disorders are a single clinical entity. He delves into the covert states of various personality disorders, such as covert narcissism, covert histrionic, and covert borderline, and their characteristics and behaviors. He also touches on the collapsed states and the transition between different states in each overlay. Additionally, he mentions the collapsed histrionic and the covert antisocial personality disorder.
Collapsed Covert Narcissist: Dissonances, Indifference, No Boundaries
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses his upcoming controversial claim that all narcissists oscillate between being overt and covert in reaction to changing life circumstances and extreme narcissistic injury. He also delves into the behaviors of covert narcissists and the collapsed state of narcissism. Vaknin emphasizes the importance of recognizing the signs of a collapsed narcissist and the rationality of walking away from relationships with narcissists. He also discusses the concept of “no contact” as a strategy for dealing with narcissistic abuse.
Borderline Mislabels Her Emotions (as do Narcissist, Psychopath)
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses the emotional and cognitive deficits in individuals with Cluster B personality disorders, such as narcissists, borderlines, psychopaths, histrionics, and codependents. These individuals have deformed, mutated forms of empathy, and their emotional regulation is not healthy. They do not have the basic tools to understand and label emotions in themselves and others, and instead, they use cognitive emotion, analyzing their emotions rather than experiencing them wholeheartedly. Coping strategies in all these personality disorders involve self-soothing, which is dysfunctional. Many of them switch from self-soothing to repetition compulsions.
Embrace Nothingness: Help God Heal
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses the concept of God and evil, arguing that God is a complex character and that mental illness is a precondition for creativity and creation. He suggests that humans are products of God’s own dissociation and that the task of humans is to help God to heal by reintegrating themselves with him. The text explores the problem of evil and questions whether God is indifferent or malevolent, and whether free will and the ability to choose evil is a sadistic act. Ultimately, the text suggests that as we heal individually and collectively, so does God.
Narcissism=Evil?
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses the concept of evil in relation to narcissism and other personality disorders. He identifies three types of evil behavior: goal-oriented evil, pleasure-seeking evil, and indifferent or off-handed evil. Narcissists typically fall into the category of indifferent evil, as they inflict pain and hurt on others as a byproduct of their actions and choices, rather than intentionally seeking to cause harm. Vaknin also explores the reasons why people may engage in evil behavior, such as a lack of empathy, a desire to conform, or a need to exert control over their lives.
Social Values and the Healthcare System (Webinar on Health Care, Health Economics, and Policy)
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses the issues of equity, efficiency, and solidarity in healthcare systems, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. He argues that privatizing public goods, such as healthcare, leads to market failures and inefficiencies, and that public goods must remain public to be efficient in the long term. Vaknin also emphasizes the importance of redesigning healthcare systems to better serve the poor, disenfranchised, women, and minorities.
COVID-19 Clones Borderlines, Psychopaths: Real Zombie Apocalypse (Depression and Psychiatry Webinar)
Professor Sam Vaknin discusses the neurological effects of COVID-19 on the central nervous system and the brains of patients. He notes that the damage to the central nervous system appears to be irreversible and that the clinical picture resembles cluster B personality disorders such as antisocial personality disorder and borderline personality disorder. He suggests that COVID-19 may be creating an army of people whose behaviors and traits are indistinguishable from psychopaths and people with borderline personality disorder. The author also discusses the findings of MRI and fMRI studies on the brains of individuals with borderline personality disorder. These studies have revealed abnormalities in various regions of the brain, including hypoplasia of the hippocampus, caudate, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, smaller than normal orbitofrontal cortex, and mid-temp
37th International Conference on Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine
The webinar on psychosomatic medicine 2020 covered various topics related to mental health, with a focus on the life experiences of teenage mothers, the impact of disabilities on parents, strategies for brain tumor surgery, and the relationship between assertiveness skills and depression among nursing students. Keynote speakers and guest speakers from different countries presented their research and findings, and the event concluded with certificates and proceedings to be sent to participants.
Physical Abuse, Rape, Battering: Victim, Perpetrator, Society Collude
Physical abuse, battering, and assault have long-lasting and often irreversible effects on both the victim and the abuser. The victim’s relationship with their body is severely damaged, as they may feel betrayed by their own body and develop a dependency on their abuser. This can lead to psychological regression, dissociation, and a loss of self-worth. Society’s denial and lack of understanding of abuse, as well as the manipulative nature of abusers, often leads to further re-traumatization of the victim.