Narcissism

Recognizing Personality Types
The Productive Narcissist: The Promise and Peril of Visionary Leadership
by Michael Maccoby, Ph.D.
A provocative examination of the essential - and widely misunderstood - personality type of today's most innovative leaders. In The Productive Narcissist, Maccoby proposes a new paradigm of modern leadership and zeros in on one common character trait

Narcissism
The End of Blackness: Returning the Souls of Black Folk to Their Rightful Owners
by Debra Dickerson
What is racism but a fascination with oneself? Why, a seventeenth-century European newly arrived in Africa must have mused, are these odd creatures not pale, not straight-haired, not freckled, not wearing filthy pantaloons, and not praying to two pieces

Taking the Words Out Of Black Mouths
The End of Blackness: Returning the Souls of Black Folk to Their Rightful Owners
by Debra Dickerson
Black people are not crazy. They're not paranoid. They're punch-drunk, or as Carter G. Woodson put it, 'the Negro's mind has been brought under the control of his oppressor. The problem of holding the Negro down, therefore, is easily solved.

Narcissistic Love
If Love Could Think: Using Your Mind to Guide Your Heart
by Alon Gratch, Ph.D.
We are all familiar with the story of Narcissus, the beautiful youth who fell in love with his own reflection in the pool. But we are less familiar with the story of his partner, Echo, the young nymph who was cursed by the gods to only be able to repeat

Chapter Two: Uniqueness And Intimacy, Part 4
Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisit
by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
DESTROYING THE FRUSTRATING OBJECT. Other narcissists choose to destroy the object that gives them so much grief by provoking in them feelings of inadequacy and frustration. They display obsessive, blind animosity and engage in a compulsive acts of

Chapter Two: Uniqueness And Intimacy, Part 3
Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisit
by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Having fulfilled their function (by listening to the narcissist, by asking his advice in an ego-inflating manner) — other people would do best to vanish until needed next time. The narcissist would feel drained if asked to reciprocate.

Chapter Two: Uniqueness And Intimacy, Part 2
Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisit
by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
The narcissist is almost always the third kind of communicator. This, obviously, is a gross over-simplification. Still, this profile provides an insight into the mating mechanism of the narcissist. With the narcissist, the whole sexual timetable is

Chapter Two: Uniqueness And Intimacy
Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisit
by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
Uniqueness and intimacy are strong rivals. First, intimacy implies a certain acquaintance of the partner with privileged information. Such partially or wholly withheld information leads to a sense of superiority and mystery, which vanishes with disclosure

Chapter One: Being Special
Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisit
by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
We all fear to lose our identity and our uniqueness. We seem to be acutely aware of this fear in a crowd of people. Far from the madding crowd is not only the title of a book it is also an apt description of one of the most ancient recoil mechanisms.

Introducton, Part 3
Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisit
by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
This division of labour between parents and children is vital both to development and to proper adaptation. The child must feel, in a functional family, that he can share his experiences without being defensive and that the feedback that he is likely to g

Introducton, Part 2
Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisit
by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
This is such a crucial matter, that the narcissist cannot take chances. He would rather be mistaken — then null and void. He would rather discern disapproval and unjustified criticism where there is none — then face the consequences of being c

Introducton
Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisit
by Sam Vaknin, Ph.D.
We all love ourselves. That seems to be such an instinctively true statement that we do not bother to examine it more thoroughly. In our daily lives – in love, in business, in other areas of life – we act on this premise. Yet, upon closer insp