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How Narcissist Experiences False Self

The speaker explains that narcissists lack a true, integrated self and instead operate from a compensatory false self formed in response to early invalidation and trauma. This false self mimics ego functions—providing an illusory sense of continuity, reinterpreting emotions, and using cold empathy and mimicry to manipulate others—while consuming the true self and impairing reality testing, emotion regulation, and impulse control. Consequently, interactions with narcissists are engagements with the false self, which produces pervasive harm through co-idealization, co-devaluation, entitlement, and rigid maladaptive behavior. How Narcissist Experiences False Self

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11.12.2025

3 Tests+3 Baits: How Narcissist Lures You (Clip Skopje Seminar Opening, May 2025)

The speaker outlined a narcissist’s repetitive recruitment process—spotting, auditioning, baiting (with co-idealization to follow)—that locates and selects targets within familiar social spaces. Auditioning involves three tests: whether the person can be idealized, can provide at least two of the four “S”s (sex, services, supply, safety), and is sufficiently vulnerable. Baiting exploits a simulated “inner child” and the target’s own inner child to infantilize, regress, and indoctrinate the victim into a cult-like shared fantasy, enabling control and long-term exploitation. 3 Tests+3 Baits: How Narcissist Lures You (Clip Skopje Seminar Opening, May 2025)

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11.12.2025
take your life back

Take Your Life Back, Own It

The speaker outlines how to develop a core identity by prioritizing ‘real’ relationships (vulnerability, shared goals, realistic perception) over micro or pseudo-relationships, maintaining personal boundaries and autonomy, and taking full responsibility for choices. He gives seven resolutions for self-respect and safety (dignity, clear boundaries, zero tolerance for abuse, assertiveness, self-knowledge, reciprocity, and terminating persistent disrespect), and emphasizes that happiness comes from within rather than external gratification. The talk closes with encouragement to trust life, adapt flexibly, value setbacks as opportunities, and strive for a remembered, authentic life. Take Your Life Back, Own It

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11.12.2025

On Narcissists and Narcissism (Sam Vaknin on Exist Real in NAVSOS, Worthing UK)

Sal Vaknin discusses his book Malignant Self-Love and his decades of work on narcissism, describing narcissistic personality structure, origins, behaviors (idealization/devaluation cycle, need for narcissistic supply), and differences between healthy and pathological narcissism. He explains causes including abuse and possible genetic predisposition, clinical features (false self, lack of empathy, external locus of control), strategies for victims (no contact, depersonalize interactions, withhold/provide supply), and societal trends toward increasing and legitimizing narcissism aided by technology and social incentives. He outlines diagnostic distinctions (narcissistic vs. malignant narcissist, antisocial/psychopathy), gendered manifestations, warning signs to spot narcissists, and the challenges of research and public misunderstanding. On Narcissists and Narcissism (Sam Vaknin on Exist Real in NAVSOS, Worthing UK)

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09.12.2025

Narcissist’s Discordant Notes: Why Uncanny Valley Reaction (Conference Presentation)

The speaker explains that exposure to narcissists triggers an “uncanny valley” reaction—an immediate, bodily sense of discomfort—detectable within seconds, due to distinctive postures, gaze, speech patterns, and emotional volatility. Narcissists present a fragmented, grandiose self through pronoun-heavy speech, confabulation, superficial charm, age-inappropriate behaviors, and failures of mentalization, creating a manipulative shared-fantasy that destabilizes others. The resulting experience is disorienting and terrifying because narcissists simulate presence without a continuous self, leaving interlocutors feeling isolated and profoundly uneasy. Narcissist’s Discordant Notes: Why Uncanny Valley Reaction (Conference Presentation)

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07.12.2025

3 Narcissists: Faker, Iconoclast, Doomsayer

Sam Vaknin outlines a nosology of pro-social or communal narcissists, identifying three types: the faker who ostentatiously conforms and exploits existing systems; the iconoclast who rejects the old order to impose a new one and offers followers hope and direction; and the brutally honest narcissist who weaponizes honesty as sadistic, misanthropic aggression. He describes each type’s motives, strategies, and social effects, noting how fakers signal conformity, iconoclasts create a new in-group narrative, and brutal honestists inflict harm under the guise of candor. Vaknin warns these varieties are increasingly prevalent in postmodern society and calls attention to their damaging consequences. 3 Narcissists: Faker, Iconoclast, Doomsayer

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07.12.2025

Why Narcissist Warns You: Stay Away? Upfront Narcissist: Preemptive Disclosure, Ostentatious Honesty

Narcissists view others as objects rather than independent people, inhabiting an internal world that lacks genuine empathy.
Apparent remorse and honesty are often manipulative tactics—ostentatious honesty, preemptive disclosure, and pseudo-humility—used to secure narcissistic supply.
These behaviors create intimacy, disarm victims, foster trauma bonding, and ultimately trap them in the narcissist’s shared fantasy, undermining their reality testing. Why Narcissist Warns You: Stay Away? Upfront Narcissist: Preemptive Disclosure, Ostentatious Honesty

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07.12.2025

Exorcise Narcissist in Your Mind (EXCERPT Lecture in University of Applied Sciences, Elbląg, Poland)

The lecture outlined the severe mental, emotional and somatic impacts of narcissistic abuse—prolonged grief, betrayal, and the narcissist’s introject that invades the victim’s mind—and emphasized that recovery is possible. It presented a nine-fold healing path grouped into body (self-care and regulation), mind (authenticity, positivity, mindfulness) and functioning (vigilant observation, shielding, reality-testing), plus preparatory homework and therapy recommendations and the stages of grief victims must accept. Recovery signs include elimination of hostile inner voices, restored self-trust and reality testing, autonomous motivation, reduced dependency and addictive cravings, and the ability to engage in relationships without adopting a victim identity. Exorcise Narcissist in Your Mind (EXCERPT Lecture in University of Applied Sciences, Elbląg, Poland)

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07.12.2025

Narcissist’s Mask of Normalcy

The speaker explains that pathological narcissists constantly wear a ‘mask’ (persona) — presenting a polished, normal exterior while harboring inner chaos and vulnerability. Their social world is inverted: strangers are pursued for narcissistic supply while intimates are treated as threats, and they employ reverse fundamental attribution (externalizing blame) alongside referential ideation and hostile attribution bias. This produces pervasive paranoia and negative affectivity, creating a deep conflict between a grandiose self-image and a sense of victimhood that can precipitate anxiety or collapse. Narcissist’s Mask of Normalcy

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07.12.2025

Negative Hoovering, Narcissistic Probing: YOU, the Enemy (Persecutory Object)

The speaker explains how narcissists cycle through idealization, devaluation, and discard to turn partners into maternal figures, exposing a fragile, vulnerable core beneath grandiosity. After discard, narcissists often engage in ‘narcissistic probing’—love-bombing, grooming, stalking, and using third parties—to test whether they can re-idealize and hoover the partner or, failing that, convert them into an enemy. Practical advice: enforce firm boundaries, communicate limits calmly, and then go no-contact while protecting privacy and staying vigilant for manipulative or criminal tactics. Negative Hoovering, Narcissistic Probing: YOU, the Enemy (Persecutory Object)

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03.12.2025

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