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LECTURE Extremes of the Human Mind: The Most Terrifying Place of All (MIT University, Skopje)

The meeting explored diverse psychological phenomena, highlighting the impact of cultural context on mental health diagnoses and treatment, and discussed rare disorders that challenge conventional understandings of reality. It examined the nature of empathy, solipsism, and the human mind, contrasting genuine human experience with artificial intelligence and psychopathy, emphasizing the limitations and philosophical challenges within modern psychology. The speaker critiqued contemporary psychology’s reliance on quantifiable methods and machines, advocating for a return to philosophical rigor and a deeper focus on the human mind as central to psychological study.

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08.10.2025

Narcissism: Birth Order, Siblings (Literature Review)

The discussion explored the likelihood of siblings developing narcissistic personality disorder, emphasizing that birth order and being an only child have minimal impact on the development of pathological narcissism, which is likely influenced more by genetic predisposition and environmental factors. Studies indicate that both overt and covert narcissism can arise from different parenting styles and sibling dynamics, with sibling conflicts correlating with traits like Machiavellianism and subclinical psychopathy. Additionally, parental warmth may paradoxically increase narcissism risk, while rejection tends to elevate psychopathy, highlighting the complex interplay between genetics, parenting, and sibling relationships in personality development.

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08.10.2025
Epstein-Maxwell, Their Hebephile, Pedophile Clients: Psychological Profile of Pedophilia-Hebephilia

How Narcissist Experiences/Reacts to No Contact, Grey Rock, Mirroring, Coping, Survival Techniques

The lecture explored the intricate psychology of narcissists, explaining their post-traumatic origins, ontological insecurity, and dissociative nature, which result in a fractured and unstable sense of self. It emphasized the futility of emotional or rational engagement with narcissists, highlighting their lack of genuine empathy, paradoxical thinking, and manipulative power dynamics resembling a cult-like religion centered on the false self. Practical advice was offered on managing relationships with narcissists, including maintaining emotional detachment, reversing manipulation cycles, and leveraging their magical thinking and paranoia to one’s advantage.

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07.10.2025

Narcissist’s Idealization in Grandiosity Bubble

Sam Vaknin explained the concept of grandiosity bubbles as defensive fantasy constructs narcissists create to maintain an inflated self-image and avoid confronting reality, especially during transitions between sources of narcissistic supply. These bubbles serve as temporary, protective isolations where the narcissist can recover from narcissistic injury without experiencing humiliation or collapse, contrasting with more stable shared fantasies maintained in pathological narcissistic spaces. The grandiosity bubble ultimately dissolves without harm, enabling the narcissist to resume their manipulative cycles of idealization, devaluation, and exploitation.

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04.10.2025

Your Defensive Identification with the Aggressor (Abuser)

The psychological concept of “identifying with the aggressor,” where victims of abuse unconsciously adopt traits and behaviors of their abusers as a defense mechanism to cope with trauma and gain a sense of control. This process, rooted in childhood development and psychoanalytic theory, often leads to maladaptive coping, perpetuates the cycle of abuse, and results in long-term negative mental health impacts. Despite being a survival strategy, this identification does not protect victims but exacerbates victimization, causing internal conflict and complicating recovery.

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03.10.2025

Narcissism is So Hard to Believe! (with Yulia Kasprzhak, Clinician)

In-depth analysis of narcissistic personality disorder, emphasizing the distinction between narcissists, psychopaths, and borderlines, highlighting narcissists as delusional and psychotic with impaired reality testing and confabulation rather than manipulative liars. It discussed the complexities of narcissistic relationships, including “hoovering,” the dynamics of narcissistic abuse, and the detrimental impact on partners, advocating no contact as the only long-term solution. The session also touched on the challenges in treating narcissism, potential future medical advancements, and the interactions and conflicts between narcissists and psychopaths in relationships.

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29.09.2025

Anticipate and Preempt? Not Always Healthy!

Sam Vaknin, explores the role of contempt in narcissism as a preemptive defense mechanism that protects narcissists from emotional injury by devaluing others, thus ensuring their emotional invulnerability. He also discusses how anticipatory behaviors, such as preemptive abandonment and reaction formation, stem from anxiety and fear of negative outcomes, often leading to self-fulfilling prophecies that bring about the very disasters individuals seek to avoid. Lastly, he highlights how anticipation and catastrophizing can constrict and limit life, causing psychological harm by fostering behaviors that inadvertently realize feared outcomes.

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25.09.2025

Narcissism in Unexpected Places (with Tanya H. Van Cott, Author of “Bandwidth”)

The conversation explored the dystopian themes of the book *Bandwidth*, focusing on technology’s impact on humanity, particularly AI, SMS communication, Narcissism, and airwater generation, while contrasting optimistic views held by tech entrepreneurs. The speaker discussed the human-nonhuman dichotomy in technology, the anxieties provoked by digital communication, and the challenges AI poses as a competitor for scarce resources like water and power. Additionally, the dialogue touched on architecture’s narcissistic tendencies, generational divides in technology use, and the evolving literary forms fitting modern fragmented realities.

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22.09.2025

How Narcissist Infects YOU with a FALSE SELF

The meeting discussed the concept of pathological narcissism as a contagious condition where victims exposed to narcissistic abuse gradually adopt narcissistic traits through developing a transient false self as a defense and coping mechanism. This false self serves as both an imaginary protector and a placating object to navigate the abuser’s unpredictable and manipulative behaviors, undermining the victim’s true self and secure attachment. The speaker emphasized the importance of recognizing this dynamic and advocated for no contact with narcissists as essential for psychological survival and recovery.

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22.09.2025

Narcissism at Its Best (Trailer of Documentary by Peter Kolakowski)

The speaker expressed a strong critical view of the creators of modern technology, particularly social media and artificial intelligence, labeling them as mentally ill and motivated by rejecting reality. They argued that social media platforms are designed to isolate individuals by reducing intimacy and exploiting loneliness for profit, employing psychological tactics to keep users engaged and disconnected from real-life relationships. The discussion highlighted concerns about the negative social impact of tech companies driven by profit at the expense of human connection. Narcissism.

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21.09.2025

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