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Narcissistic Abuse: View from the Amazon (with Marcia Maia)

The meeting involved a detailed discussion on narcissism, its psychological impact, and distinctions from psychopathy and borderline personality disorder, emphasizing the deep trauma caused by narcissistic mothers. The speakers explored the unconscious dynamics of narcissistic abuse, the victim’s addiction to idealization phases, and the challenges of recognizing and healing from such abuse. Additionally, the conversation highlighted the complexity of narcissistic identity, the difficulty in differentiating it from related disorders, and the importance of alternative supportive models for affected children. Narcissistic Abuse: View from the Amazon (with Marcia Maia)

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15.11.2025

Borderline’s Mating Strategies, Aggression Mismanaged

The video is focused on the mating strategies and aggression patterns of Cluster B personality disorders, particularly borderline personality disorder (BPD), highlighting their self-defeating behaviors and difficulty in managing aggression. It explained how borderline individuals use manipulative tactics in relationships, struggle with approach-avoidance dynamics due to misdirected aggression, and internalize their anger leading to self-destructive behaviors. The discussion emphasized the need for Cluster B patients to learn healthy externalization and sublimation of aggression through therapy and socially acceptable outlets. Borderline’s Mating Strategies, Aggression Mismanaged

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10.11.2025

Predatory Women (Compilation 2 of 2)

The video provided an in-depth analysis of female psychopaths, distinguishing them from male psychopaths by their impulsivity, emotional dysregulation, and relational abuse within a chaotic, manipulative “crazymaking space” aimed at gaining power. It also explored borderline personality disorder, particularly focusing on splitting, self-destructive behaviors, and substance abuse as coping mechanisms linked to fears of abandonment and identity diffusion. Additionally, the discussion compared narcissistic and psychopathic sexual fantasies and behaviors, highlighting differences in motivations, manifestations, and the roles substance abuse plays in exacerbating dysfunctional patterns. Predatory Women (Compilation 2 of 2)

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07.11.2025

Borderline’s Partner: Some Enter Healthy, Exit Mentally Ill (Starts 12:10)

The discussion focused on how individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often transform their intimate partners, even mentally healthy ones, into narcissists through a dynamic of unstable internal and external object constancy. It was explained that borderlines struggle with maintaining stable internal representations of others, leading to chaotic behaviors and emotional dysregulation, which drives partners to withdraw and develop internal objects representing the borderline, mirroring narcissistic dynamics. This cyclical interaction produces mutual avoidance and approach behaviors, perpetuating a complex and destructive relationship pattern where both parties exhibit traits of narcissism and borderline pathology. Borderline’s Partner: Some Enter Healthy, Exit Mentally Ill (Starts 12:10)

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03.11.2025

Narcissism – Quo Vadis? (with Anwesh Satpathy)

In this discussion, Professor Sam Banknt elaborated on narcissism, differentiating between healthy primary narcissism and pathological secondary narcissism, emphasizing the fluidity and overlap between narcissistic and other personality disorders. He critiqued the current psychiatric diagnostic system as outdated and pseudoscientific, advocating for a unified approach to personality disorders while highlighting societal issues like the rise of narcissistic traits amplified by technology and social media. The conversation also addressed the challenges of regulation, societal impacts of arranged marriages, and the interplay between narcissism, religion, and culture in modern times. Narcissism – Quo Vadis? (with Anwesh Satpathy)

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31.10.2025

Predatory Women (Compilation 1 of 2)

The video discussed the complex interplay between borderline personality disorder, psychopathy, narcissism, and histrionic personality disorder, emphasizing trauma and dissociation as underlying factors linking these disorders. It highlighted recent research challenging traditional gender biases and explored how these disorders manifest differently in men and women, including their behavioral traits, substance abuse tendencies, and responses to treatment. The discussion also underscored the need for a unified diagnostic approach focusing on dissociation and trauma to better understand and treat cluster B personality disorders. Predatory Women (Compilation 1 of 2)

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27.10.2025

Why Do You Fall for Narcissist’s “Lies”, “Gaslighting”? (Hindsight Bias, Illusory Truth Effect)

In this video, Sam Vaknin explained that narcissists and borderline individuals often confabulate—unconsciously fabricating memories to fill gaps caused by dissociation—rather than intentionally lying or manipulating like psychopaths. Confabulations serve as a defensive mechanism to maintain a sense of personal identity and continuity, and both the confabulators and their listeners tend to believe these narratives due to cognitive biases such as confirmation bias and the illusory truth effect. The meeting emphasized the crucial distinction between confabulation as a non-malicious coping strategy and deliberate lies or gaslighting used by psychopaths for manipulative purposes. Why Do You Fall for Narcissist’s “Lies”, “Gaslighting”? (Hindsight Bias, Illusory Truth Effect)

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26.10.2025

Fix your Narrative, Heal Yourself: Narcissism Narrative Therapy

The video is focused on the concept of narrative therapy as a means to address failures in self-narratives commonly seen in disorders such as narcissism and borderline personality disorder, emphasizing the reconstruction of personal stories to enhance self-efficacy and identity cohesion. Techniques discussed included externalizing conversations, re-authoring one’s identity with therapist collaboration, and involving outsider witnesses to provide supportive perspectives. The therapeutic goal is to empower individuals to rewrite their self-narratives creatively, fostering personal growth and problem-solving through a collaborative and values-driven process. Fix your Narrative, Heal Yourself: Narcissism Narrative Therapy

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22.10.2025

Borderline: Narcissist’s Mirror (and Avoidant Personality Disorder)

In this video, the speaker explored the psychodynamic relationship between borderline personality disorder (BPD) and narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), proposing that BPD is a mirror image of narcissism, with distinct but parallel mechanisms of control and anxiety relating to presence and absence in relationships. The discussion included differences in how both disorders manage intimacy, separation, and devaluation, as well as their avoidant and schizoid phases, contrasted with avoidant personality disorder (AvPD), which shares some symptoms but differs fundamentally in causes and behavioral responses. The speaker also illustrated avoidant personality disorder with a clinical example, emphasizing its common misdiagnosis due to overlapping traits with BPD and NPD despite distinct psychodynamic foundations.

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21.10.2025

Serial idealizers, Anxious People-pleasers, Addicts: NOT Narcissists

In this lecture, the speaker, Sam Dagny, explores misunderstood behaviors often mistaken for pathological narcissism, focusing on serial idealizers, anxious people pleasers, addicts, and individuals with borderline personality disorder. He differentiates these groups by highlighting their unique psychodynamic processes, such as the serial idealizers’ rapid fantasy creation, people pleasers’ anxiety-driven boundarylessness, addicts’ denial of control, and borderlines’ fear of abandonment and engulfment. The talk emphasizes that grandiosity, while common in narcissism, also appears in various other mental health disorders, cautioning against conflating grandiosity with narcissism itself.

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16.10.2025

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