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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

Querying the Enemy: Hurt People Question Narcissism’s Aftermath (Q&A Skopje Seminar, 2025)

In the seminar, Professor Sam Vaknin discussed the dynamics of narcissistic families, explaining concepts like projective splitting, the roles of scapegoat and golden child, and the conditional nature of love in narcissistic relationships. He emphasized the difficulty in recognizing narcissists due to cognitive dissonance, the contagious nature of narcissism, and distinctions between narcissistic traits and clinical narcissism. The session also touched on complex issues such as shared fantasies in relationships, the rare clinical diagnosis of narcissism compared to narcissistic traits, and the unique sexual dynamics in narcissists. Querying the Enemy: Hurt People Question Narcissism’s Aftermath (Q&A Skopje Seminar, 2025)

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15.10.2025

Narcissist’s “Mother” and Anti-“mother” (Excerpt)

The discussion explored the complex psychological dynamics of narcissists seeking idealized maternal figures, particularly focusing on male heterosexual narcissists’ quest for a flawless, devoted partner to sustain their grandiose fantasies. The narrative described the narcissist’s cyclical pattern of adoring a “mother” figure, rejecting her upon inevitable failure, and then engaging with an “anti-mother” who embodies destructiveness and self-punishment. Ultimately, this cycle perpetuates the narcissist’s pursuit of redemption, absolution, and transcendence through repeated relational patterns.

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12.10.2025

First AI: Narcissists, Psychopaths (2014 Lecture) (Vaknin Narcissism Summaries)

The video explored the concept of artificial intelligence, emphasizing machines convincing humans they are human and raising philosophical questions about empathy and the nature of humanity. It delved into the psychological traits of narcissists and psychopaths, highlighting their lack of empathy, objectification of others, and the impact on human interaction and communication. The conversation concluded with reflections on collective mental health issues and the perceived divide between psychology and psychiatry within the scientific community.

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12.10.2025

Narcissist Talks AT You – Not TO You (Clip) (Vaknin Narcissism Summaries YouTube Channel)

The speaker explained that effective communication with narcissists involves focusing on the underlying motives behind their words rather than the content itself. They outlined four primary reasons narcissists communicate: to impress and manipulate others, to confabulate due to memory gaps, to support their grandiose self-image, and to exert control for personal gain. Ultimately, narcissistic communication is goal-oriented and weaponized to maintain their false self and influence others.

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26.09.2025

Narcissist: Locus of Grandiosity, Type Fluidity

The discussion focused on the concept of the “locus of grandiosity” in narcissism, explaining that narcissists seek to be perceived as unique through a self-enhancing narrative that varies by individual interests or attributes, rather than uniformly wanting to be the best in all areas. It was emphasized that narcissists exhibit type fluidity, meaning their personality traits and grandiose narratives can shift in response to psychological stress or collapse, transitioning between narcissistic, borderline, and psychopathic states. This fluidity results in an absence of a stable core identity, making narcissists highly inconsistent and difficult to predict, as they continuously generate varying self-defining stories.

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30.08.2025
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Why Narcissists Don’t Share

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05.08.2025

Psychopath, Narcissist Manipulate You Differently

The speaker highlighted key differences between narcissists and psychopaths, emphasizing how narcissists manipulate external reality to distort a victim’s internal perception, whereas psychopaths manipulate internal realities to distort external perception. Narcissistic abuse often results in profound, lasting trauma that shatters the victim’s identity, requiring extensive psychological reconstruction, while psychopathic abuse typically causes external harm akin to PTSD. The speaker also warned against glorifying powerful narcissists, noting that many are malignant and harmful despite their public image.

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21.01.2025

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