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Sam Vaknin

Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West Lost the East. He served as a columnist for Global Politician, Central Europe Review, PopMatters, and eBookWeb , a United Press International (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent, and the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory Bellaonline, and Suite101 .

Until recently, he served as the Economic Advisor to the Government of Macedonia.

Visit Sam's Web site at http://samvak.tripod.com
palma@unet.com.mk

Articles by Sam Vaknin:

  •   A Comment on Campaign Finance Reform
  •   A Dialog about Anti-Semitism
  •   A Letter about Trust
  •   A Taxonomy of Political Conflict In Central and Eastern Europe
  •   Abusive Relationships - Getting Law Enforcement Authorities and the Police Involved
  •   Abusive Relationships - Planning and Executing Your Getaway
  •   Acquired Situational Narcissism
  •   Add Me to the List, Mr. Blair
  •   Addiction and Personality
  •   Affiliation and Morality
  •   AIDS - Europe's New Plague
  •   America the Narcissist
  •   America's Second Civil War
  •   America, the Dictatorship
  •   Anarchism for a Post-modern Age
  •   And Then There Were Too Many
  •   Anger - The Common Sources of Personality Disorders
  •   Another Look at Mahatma Gandhi
  •   Avoidant Personality Disorder
  •   Axes of Personality Disorders
  •   Back to La-la Land
  •   Battle of the Titans - Encarta vs. the Britannica
  •   Being John Malkovich
  •   Body Language and Personality Disorders
  •   BOOK REVIEW Dreamworld and Catastrophe
  •   BOOK REVIEW The Fragmentation of Yugoslavia
  •   BOOK REVIEW The Political Economy of Post-Soviet Russia
  •   Borderline Personality Disorder
  •   Brain and Personality
  •   Bulgaria - Past, Present, and Multiethnic Future
  •   Bully at Work - Interview with Tim Field
  •   Cannibalism and Human Sacrifice
  •   Changes in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) IV
  •   Chavez's Inspiration - Simon Bolivar
  •   Cluster B Personality Disorders
  •   Codependence and the Dependent Personality Disorder
  •   Collective Narcissism - Narcissism, Culture, and Society
  •   Common Features of Personality Disorders
  •   Conduct Disorder
  •   Coping with Various Types of Stalkers
  •   Coping with Your Abuser
  •   Coping with Your Stalker
  •   Crime Fighting Computer Systems and Databases
  •   Defense Mechanisms
  •   Depressive Personality Disorder
  •   Diagnosing Personality Disorders
  •   Differential Diagnoses of Personality Disorders
  •   Disorder-specific Tests
  •   Divorce as a Re-Distributive Mechanism
  •   Domestic Violence Shelters
  •   Dreams of Reality - The View, and the Point of View
  •   Earthquakes and Tsunamis
  •   Eating Disorders and Personality Disorders (narcissism)
  •   Eating Disorders and the Narcissist
  •   Eclectic Psychotherapy
  •   Entertaining the Masses in Transition
  •   Ethical Relativism and Absolute Taboos
  •   Eugenics and the Future of the Human Species
  •   Euphoric and Dysphoric Cycles in Marriage
  •   Europe's Agricultural Revolution
  •   Euthanasia and the Right to Die
  •   Factor Models of Personality
  •   Fascism - The Tensile Permanence
  •   Five Factor Personality Model
  •   Forward to the Past - Feudalism and Communism
  •   Gender and the Narcissist
  •   Gender Bias in Diagnosing Personality Disorders
  •   Genetics and Personality Disorders
  •   German State Elections Compared
  •   Getting the Courts Involved - Restraining Orders and Peace Bonds
  •   Grandiosity Bubbles
  •   Healthcare Legislation
  •   Histrionic Personality Disorder
  •   Hitler and the Invention of the West
  •   How the West Lost the East
  •   How Victims are Affected by Abuse
  •   Ian Fleming - James Bond's Creator
  •   Idealization, Grandiosity, Cathexis, and Narcissistic Progress
  •   In Defense of Psychoanalysis - Introduction
  •   Indifference and Decompensation in Pathological Narcissism
  •   Inner Dialog, Cognitive Deficits, and Introjects in Narcissism
  •   International Classification of Diseases (ICD) 10
  •   Intuition
  •   Is the Narcissist Legally Insane?
  •   Islam in the United States
  •   Knowledge and Power
  •   Left and Right in a Divided Europe
  •   Live and Let Live, Nature's Message
  •   Macedonia's Framework Agreement - I.Surviving the Uprising
  •   Macedonia's Framework Agreement - II. Macedonia at a Crossroads
  •   Macedonia's Framework Agreement - III. The Disingenuous Dialogue
  •   Macedonia's Framework Agreement - IV. Thucydides' Honour
  •   Macedonia's Framework Agreement - IX. Interview with Svetozar Janevski
  •   Macedonia's Framework Agreement - V. The Brink and the Cusp
  •   Macedonia's Framework Agreement - VI. Interview with then Prime Minister
  •   Macedonia's Framework Agreement - VII. Interview with then President
  •   Macedonia's Framework Agreement - VIII. Interviews with then Minister of Finance of Macedonia, Nikola Gruevski
  •   Macedonia's Framework Agreement - X. The Macedonian Lottery
  •   Maritime Piracy
  •   Masochistic Personality Disorder
  •   Metaphors of the Mind
  •   Microsoft Embraces the Web - Encarta Premium 2006
  •   Microsoft Student 2006
  •   Millenarian Thoughts about Kosovo
  •   Milosevic's Treasure Island
  •   Misdiagnosing Narcissism - Asperger's Disorder
  •   Misdiagnosing Narcissism - Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
  •   Misdiagnosing Narcissism - The Bipolar I Disorder
  •   MMCI-III Diagnostic Test
  •   MMPI-II Test
  •   Morality As A Mental State
  •   Muslims - Europe's New Jews
  •   Myths of the American Civil War
  •   Narcissism and Personality Disorders
  •   Narcissism, Substance Abuse, and Reckless Behaviours
  •   Narcissist vs. Psychopath
  •   Narcissistic Leaders
  •   Narcissistic Personality Disorder - Clinical Features
  •   Narcissistic Personality Disorder - Diagnostic Criteria
  •   Narcissistic Personality Disorder - Prevalence and Comorbidity
  •   Narcissistic Personality Disorder - Who is a Malignant Narcissist?
  •   Narcissists in Positions of Authority
  •   Narcissists, Group Behavior, and Terrorism - Part I
  •   Narcissists, Group Behavior, and Terrorism - Part II
  •   Narcissists, Group Behavior, and Terrorism - Part III
  •   Narcissists, Group Behavior, and Terrorism - Part IV
  •   Negativistic (Passive-Aggressive) Personality Disorder
  •   No Albanian Intifada!
  •   Not Otherwise Specified (NOS) Personality Disorder
  •   Notes from an Imploding Empire
  •   Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD)
  •   Oilfield Development and Inter-Ethnic Tension
  •   Old Reference Works Revived
  •   On Achievement
  •   On Being Human
  •   On Dis-ease
  •   On Empathy
  •   On Uniqueness
  •   Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
  •   Paranoid Personality Disorder
  •   Parenting - The Irrational Vocation
  •   Pathological Narcissism, Psychosis, and Delusions
  •   Personality Disorders as an Insanity Defense
  •   Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
  •   Private Armies
  •   Psychological Tests
  •   Psychosexual Stages of Personal Development
  •   Purging vs. Co-opting Tyrants
  •   Rasputin in Transition
  •   Recovery and Healing from Abuse and Trauma
  •   Resolving Disputes - The Lost Art
  •   Rorschach Inkblots Test
  •   Russia's Middle Class
  •   Saddam's One Thousand Nights - The Run-up to the Second Gulf War
  •   Sadistic Personality Disorder
  •   Schizoid Personality Disorder
  •   Schizotypal Personality Disorder
  •   Serial Killers
  •   SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and the Aliens Conundrum - Part I
  •   SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and the Aliens Conundrum - Part II
  •   Sex and Personality Disorders
  •   Sex or Gender
  •   Signs and Symptoms
  •   Skopje - Where Time Stood Still
  •   Slavery in the USA
  •   Structured Interviews
  •   Suicide - The Murder of Oneself
  •   Switching Empires
  •   TAT Diagnostic Test
  •   The Abdication Crisis Revisited
  •   The Abu Ghraib Syndrome - Why Good People Ignore Abuse
  •   The American Hostel
  •   The American Revolution
  •   The Armenian Genocide
  •   The Aung San Family in Myanmar
  •   The Author of This Article is a Racist
  •   The Avoidant Patient - A Case Study
  •   The Balkans - The Titanic Waltz
  •   The Basic Dilemma of the Artist
  •   The Books of the Damned
  •   The Borderline Patient - A Case Study
  •   The Christiane Way
  •   The Classification of Cultures
  •   The Complete Idiot's Guide to Philosophy
  •   The Compulsive Giver
  •   The Conflicts of Therapy
  •   The Construct of Normal Personality
  •   The Cult of the Narcissist
  •   The Cultural Narcissist - Lasch In An Age Of Diminishing Expectations
  •   The Cyber Narcissist
  •   The da Vinci Syndrome
  •   The Debate about Cloning
  •   The Demise of the West?
  •   The Depressive Narcissist
  •   The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) - Pros and Cons
  •   The Disunited Nations
  •   The Dying Breed - Healthcare in Eastern Europe
  •   The Eastern Question Revisited
  •   The Egoistic Friend
  •   The Emerging Water Wars
  •   The Encroachment of the Public
  •   The Encyclopedia Britannica 2006
  •   The Enigma of Normal People
  •   The Eureka Connection
  •   The Exclusionary Conscience
  •   The Expat Experts
  •   The False Maps of Maskirovka
  •   The Familiar Gone Awry
  •   The Fate of the State of Israel
  •   The First Serial Killer - Ed Gein
  •   The Future of the Book
  •   The Happiness of Others
  •   The Hateful Patient - Difficult Patients in Psychotherapy
  •   The History of Calendars
  •   The History of Personality Disorders
  •   The Histrionic Patient - A Case Study
  •   The Impeachment of President Clinton Revisited
  •   The Insanity of the Defense
  •   The Intermittent Explosive Narcissist
  •   The Interrupted Self
  •   The Inverted Saint - Hitler
  •   The Last Family
  •   The Magla Vocables
  •   The Matrix Revisited
  •   The Measurement Problem in Quantum Mechanics
  •   The Media Downloader's Profile
  •   The Merits of Stereotypes
  •   The Metaphorically Correct Artist and other Romanticist Mutations
  •   The Metaphors of the Net
  •   The Mind of Darkness
  •   The MinMaj Rule
  •   The Misanthropic Altruist
  •   The Myth of Great Albania - I. Introduction
  •   The Myth of Great Albania - II. History
  •   The Myth of Great Albania - III. More History
  •   The Myth of Great Albania - IV. Modern History
  •   The Myth of Mental Illness
  •   The Myths of Yugoslavia - Part I
  •   The Myths of Yugoslavia - Part II
  •   The Myths of Yugoslavia - Part III
  •   The Narcissism of Differences Big and Small
  •   The Narcissist - From Abuse to Suicide
  •   The Narcissist and His Family
  •   The Narcissist and His Friends
  •   The Narcissist as Eternal Child
  •   The Narcissist in Therapy
  •   The Narcissist's Confabulated Life
  •   The Narcissist's Inner Judge
  •   The Narcissist's Object Constancy
  •   The Narcissist's Reality Substitutes
  •   The Narcissist's Time
  •   The Narcissist, God, and Social Institutions
  •   The Natural Roots of Sexuality
  •   The New Dark Ages
  •   The New Europeans
  •   The New Politics
  •   The Offspring of Aeolus - On the Incest Taboo
  •   The Pathological Charmer
  •   The Pathology of Love
  •   The Pettifogger Procurators
  •   The Prodigy as Narcissistic Injury
  •   The Professions of the Narcissist
  •   The Psychology of Torture
  •   The Psychopath and Antisocial
  •   The Revolution of Psychoanalysis
  •   The Rights of Animals
  •   The Rip van Winkle Institutions
  •   The Roots of Anti-Americanism
  •   The Roots of Pedophilia
  •   The Russian Devolution - Regions and Center in Putin's Russia
  •   The Schizoid Patient - A Case Study
  •   The Schizotypal Patient - A Case Study
  •   The Semi-failed State
  •   The Shattered Identity
  •   The Six Sins of the Wikipedia
  •   The Stalker as Antisocial Bully
  •   The Technology of Law, The Law of Technology
  •   The Two Loves of the Narcissist
  •   The Virtual Home
  •   Therapy and Treatment of Personality Disorders
  •   Thoughts on the Internet's Founding Myths
  •   Titanic, or A Moral Deliberation
  •   To Give with Grace
  •   Trade Unions (Syndicates) after Communism
  •   Transition in Context
  •   Traumas as Social Interactions
  •   Treatment Modalities and Therapies
  •   Trends for a Not-so-new Millennium
  •   Wanted: An East European Ataturk
  •   Western Migration to the East
  •   What is Abuse?
  •   What is Narcissism?
  •   What is Personality
  •   What Makes a Leader?
  •   White Farms, Black Farmers
  •   Why Are Politicians Corrupt?
  •   Why do We Celebrate Birthdays
  •   Why do We Love to Hate Celebrities
  •   Wikipedia and the Credibility of Online Information
  •   Wikipedia vs. Britannica - Interview with Tom Panelas
  •   Winning the European CAP (Common Agricultural Policy)
  •   Women in Transition From Post Feminism to Past Femininity