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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

Date from Hell: Dating Narcissists and Psychopaths

In this video, Sam Vaknin discussed his personal experience with narcissistic personality disorder and his pioneering work in identifying and defining narcissism and related personality disorders. He explained the behaviors and psychological traits of narcissists and psychopaths, their impact on relationships, and the challenges victims face, emphasizing the prevalence of these disorders in various social settings. Vaknin also highlighted the importance of education to recognize narcissistic traits and recommended his book “Malignant Self-Love” as a valuable resource for understanding and coping with narcissistic abuse. Date from Hell: Dating Narcissists and Psychopaths

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04.11.2025

Narcissism: 3 Frenchmen Ask, Prof. Answers (with Antoine Peytavin and Friends)

In this video, Professor Sam Vaknin discussed narcissism, its nature as a genetic trait, cultural phenomenon, and personality disorder, emphasizing its profound psychological and societal impacts. He explained the distinctions between overt and covert narcissism, the role of narcissistic supply, and the complexities of diagnosing and treating narcissistic personality disorder. Vaknin highlighted the challenges victims face in escaping narcissistic abuse, the misconceptions about therapy effectiveness, and the lasting effects on both narcissists and their victims. Narcissism: 3 Frenchmen Ask, Prof. Answers (with Antoine Peytavin and Friends)

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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

When Shame, Guilt, Remorse Drive Abuse (Alloplastic Defenses, Reaction Formation, Affect Matching)

The speaker discussed the complex role of shame, guilt, and remorse in abusive behaviors, particularly in individuals with personality disorders such as narcissistic, borderline, histrionic, and psychopathic types. While these emotions typically inhibit misconduct, in certain disordered personalities they paradoxically trigger externalized aggression through mechanisms like aloplastic defenses, effective matching, and reaction formation. The talk highlighted how these negative feelings can fuel abuse by shifting blame, justifying harmful behavior, or projecting emotions onto others. When Shame, Guilt, Remorse Drive Abuse (Alloplastic Defenses, Reaction Formation, Affect Matching)

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20.10.2025

Psychopathic Female in Your Life

The video is focused on the distinct characteristics of female psychopaths, who differ from male psychopaths by displaying impulsivity, emotional dysregulation, and complex interpersonal manipulation within a chaotic “crazymaking space.” Female psychopaths use charm, vulnerability, and covert tactics to exert power, control, and manipulate others, often creating a theater-like environment where victims are mere props in their antisocial dramas. Despite occasional flashes of empathy, their actions are driven by self-actualization through victimization, making them particularly insidious and dangerous due to societal stereotypes that underestimate their threat. Psychopathic Female.

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17.10.2025

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

Narcissistic Ideas of Progress: Our Dystopian Future (with Ginger Coy)

In this in-depth discussion, Sam Ving and Ginger Koy explore the pervasive influence of narcissism and psychopathy in global leadership, highlighting the inevitable self-destructive nature of such figures like Trump, and the broader clash between Renaissance and Enlightenment values shaping today’s sociopolitical landscape. They argue that universal franchise democracy is flawed, advocating for a pragmatic acceptance of narcissism and victimhood as societal forces while warning of a potential shift towards autocracy and totalitarianism, with Islam emerging as a significant ideological influence. The conversation also critiques technological impacts on social isolation, the failure of the Enlightenment project, and emphasizes the need to confront harsh realities rather than rely on fantasies or simplistic moral judgments. Narcissistic Ideas.

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15.10.2025
Human Mind

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

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