Some people are perennial pessimists and have "negative energy" and negativistic attitudes ("good things don't last", "it doesn't pay to be good", "the future...
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art12426.asp Mental Health Site Carissa Vaughn BellaOnline's Mental Health Editor Addiction and Personality Guest Author -...
The dogmatic schools of psychotherapy (such as psychoanalysis, psychodynamic therapies, and behaviorism) more or less failed in ameliorating, let alone curing...
The DSM-IV dropped two diagnoses that made an appearance in the DSM-III: the masochistic and the sadistic personality disorders. But these are not the only...
The Capgras Shift By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" 1. The Sinking My marriage aborted, my private practice stillborn, I...
The Narcissist in the Workplace http://samvak.tripod.com/faq81.html The Narcissist in a Position of Authority http://samvak.tripod.com/faq11.html Abuse by...
My response to the author of these 2 commercial Websites: http://www.narcissismcured.com http://www.narcissismsupport.com She wrote: "There are many experts...
CORRECT LINK Phineas Gage was a 25 years old construction foreman who lived in Vermont in the 1860s. While working on a railroad bed, he packed powdered...
Only a qualified mental health diagnostician can determine whether someone suffers from a Personality Disorder and this, following lengthy tests and personal...
Children and adolescents with conduct disorder are budding psychopaths. They repeatedly and deliberately (and joyfully) violate the rights of others and breach...
Portrait of the Narcissist as a Young Man http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/narcissisticabuse/message/5048 Narcissistic and psychopathic parents and their...
The connection between chronic anxiety, pathological narcissism, depression, obsessive-compulsive traits and alcoholism and drug abuse is well established and...
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http://samvak.tripod.com/abusefamily18.html The Erotomaniac This kind of stalker believes that he is in love with you. To show his keen interest, he keeps...
Dear members, Tom Georgiev, an award-winning Macedonian photographer, and Sam Vaknin, author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" and other texts...
My name is Christopher McCullough, Ph.D. and I am a psychotherapist living just north of San Francisco, CA. Sam has allowed me to post this message regarding...
The Pathological Charmer http://samvak.tripod.com/case05.html Flirting makes up for antisocial tendencies (Video available) How do antisocial men manage to...