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Nothingness: Antidote to Narcissism
Добавлен 17 дек 2020
Nothingness is the only antidote to the tsunami of individual and collective narcissism that is threatening to drown us all. Learn more about this philosophical system on this channel.
Sam Vaknin has a Ph.D in Philosophy of Science and is an accomplished, published, and much awarded physicist, economist, and author of short fiction and poetry. He pioneered the modern study of pathological narcissism and narcissistic abuse (a phrase he coined) in 1995.
Sam Vaknin is a former Visiting Professor of Psychology in Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia and a Professor of Finance in SIAS-CIAPS (Centre for International Advanced and Professional Studies).
Sam Vaknin has a Ph.D in Philosophy of Science and is an accomplished, published, and much awarded physicist, economist, and author of short fiction and poetry. He pioneered the modern study of pathological narcissism and narcissistic abuse (a phrase he coined) in 1995.
Sam Vaknin is a former Visiting Professor of Psychology in Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia and a Professor of Finance in SIAS-CIAPS (Centre for International Advanced and Professional Studies).
Is Adulthood Such a Good Idea?
Millennials and Gen-Zers refuse to grow up and assume the mantle of adulthood. Why is that?
The youth of today are opting out of the political and social game and the public square. They are not participating in the life of collective, not even as rebels. They merely seek to sabotage the established order via avoidance, virtue signaling and self-aggrandizing morality plays, withdrawal, and passive-aggressive resistance. They constitute a new phenomenon: the avoidant revolutionary.
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The youth of today are opting out of the political and social game and the public square. They are not participating in the life of collective, not even as rebels. They merely seek to sabotage the established order via avoidance, virtue signaling and self-aggrandizing morality plays, withdrawal, and passive-aggressive resistance. They constitute a new phenomenon: the avoidant revolutionary.
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Message to Mentally Ill
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The mentally ill are a fraternity of brothers and sisters all around the globe. No one can truly understand the desperate doomed attempt to make sense of the world, of others, of ourselves - to no avail. Cancer of the soul for life, our constant companion Learn to forgive yourself - you are doing the best you can but you are disabled Forgive them for they know not what they are doing and they a...
Are You Hurting People Unintentionally?
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Trauma is contagious. You can develop PTSD just being exposed to a victim’s story (according to the DSM 5-TR). This is known as vicarious or secondary trauma. The risk is especially high if you had experienced a primary trauma. Reactions fall into two camps: avoidance or hyperarousal. How to cope? Community and happiness (or wellbeing) are the answers. Seek help if the symptoms get worse. Find ...
Are You Numb, Apathetic, "Dead", Robotic? You Could be TRAUMATIZED!
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Presentation to the 25th International Conference on Neurology and Neurophysiology, April 5, 2021 New directions in PTSD research: 1. Reconceiving of personality disorders as post-traumatic conditions; and 2. Externalized PTSD results in acting out or experiential avoidance while internalized PTSD may lead to emotional dysregulation, flashbacks, emotional numbing, reduced or inappropriate affec...
Triggering Cascade, Trauma Imprinting, and Total Reactance
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"Triggering cascade" is when a seemingly minor trigger results in vastly disproportional trauma. Painful memories, replete with the attendant negative emotions, are walled behind mental barriers: combinations of dams and firewalls. Sometimes even an innocuous mishap or a merely unpleasant event rupture these defenses and decades of hurt are released in an avalanche that, at times, can be life t...
Narcissist: Nonconceptual, Nonidentity, Othering Failure
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The failure in the formation of the Self/Ego via separation-individuation in early childhood results in a cascade of deficiencies in later life. The infant is unable to transition from preverbal nonconceptual mental content (unthought known, unconscious) to the conceptual, linguistic phase. The child fails to recognize the externality of objects and to generate theories of mind (mentalize) as w...
Three Voices: Histrionic, Psychopathic, Borderline
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Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is often diagnosed together (comorbid) with other personality disorders: histrionic, narcissistic, and antisocial (psychopathy). The majority of persons diagnosed with these comorbidities of personality disorders are women. Borderline Personality Disorder is a post-traumatic state which is repeatedly triggered by neglect, abandonment, withholding of sex and...
Narcissistic Mortification: FACTS, not YouTube NONSENSE
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Full text here: samvak.tripod.com/faq01.html Narcissistic mortification, is, therefore, a sudden sense of defeat and loss of control over internal or external objects or realities, caused by an aggressing person or a compulsive trait or behavior. It produces disorientation and terror (distinct from anticipatory fear). The entire personality is overwhelmed by impotent ineluctability and a lack o...
Where Do You Stand with Your Narcissist's Fantasy? (June 2022)
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This is a summary of my shared fantasy-dual mothership framework for the narcissist’s intimate interpersonal relationships. 7 Stages of shared fantasy: 1. Co-Idealization (lovebombing, introject and narcissist all good because he owns object) 2. Dual mothership in a shared fantasy (recreation of childhood) 3. Need to reenact separation leads to mental discard which results in narcissistic injur...
Should You Become a Psychopath to Break the Narcissist?
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The narcissist has 3 essential demands from his partner and companion, 3 Ss: Sex, Supply, Services. If she provides any 2 of these 3, he is pacified and ignores her: she is a captive and he is indifferent to her emotions, needs, and wishes. He takes her silent, acquiescing presence in his life for granted: an inert, lifeless, and objectified or even mummified fixture. The narcissist acts simila...
REALLY? Narcissist’s Black Eyes, Different Smell, Demon Face
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In conditions of extreme stress, psychotic microepisodes cause hallucinations. Co-idealization and co-devaluation lead to regression (sensory misattribution in infancy). Synesthesia across the divide between external and internal (external stimuli trigger internal ones). Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3
Decode Secret Speech
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The narcissist's communication is a cipher, it is coded. Here are two simple rules: 1. The narcissist is never sad - and always mad (at you) and bad; and 2. When the narcissist says "I am bad" (is ostensibly repentant), he means to say "I am afraid" (of the consequences of his actions) Envelope: reasonable, flexible/compromising, socially-acceptable, commonsensical Hidden/occult coded message w...
Are You People-pleaser or Pathological Charmer?
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People-pleasers dread conflicts and wish to avoid them (they are conflict-averse) - hence their need to believe that they are universally liked. Always pleasant, well-mannered, and civil, the conflict-averse people-pleaser is also evasive and vague, hard to pin down, sometimes obsequious and, generally, a spineless "non-entity". These qualities are self-defeating as they tend to antagonize peop...
Are YOU: Abuser, Victim, Savior/Rescuer, or ALL the Above? (Karpman's Drama Triangle)
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Karpman's drama triangle, Triangles and triangulation in Bowens' Family Systems Theory, Ackerman's pathological/perverse triangles, Victim playing, Learned helplessness, Bernard Weiner's attribution theory, and Fundamental attribution error. Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3
Is Koroshi Your Thing? (Death by Overworking)
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“Koroshi” in Japanese is death by overworking. Herbert Freudenberger coined the term burnout in 1974. The ICD 11 recognizes burnout as an “occupational phenomenon”. Workaholism has negative consequences: job stress, work-life imbalance, interpersonal difficulties, burnout, workplace conflict, and adverse health outcomes. Presentation to the 33rd International conference on Mental and Behavioral...
Are You Real - or Just a Mask, Persona?
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Are You Real - or Just a Mask, Persona?
Don't Let Them Steal Your Life, Identity, Accomplishments!
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Don't Let Them Steal Your Life, Identity, Accomplishments!
How to Hack for Your Mind to Heal, Succeed
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How to Hack for Your Mind to Heal, Succeed
Don't Develop an Anxious Personality!
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Don't Develop an Anxious Personality!
Your PAIN=Narcissist's FOOD, Deny Him/Her!
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Your PAIN=Narcissist's FOOD, Deny Him/Her!
Was Your Family Pseudomutual or Pseudohostile?
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Was Your Family Pseudomutual or Pseudohostile?
Don't Give in to False Hope of Hot and Cold
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Don't Give in to False Hope of Hot and Cold
Don't Let Peer Rejection Get to You!
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Don't Let Peer Rejection Get to You!
Vaknin Speaks Truth to Youth (Turnu Severin International Conference on Psychology)
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Vaknin Speaks Truth to Youth (Turnu Severin International Conference on Psychology)
Everything is Just Potentials (Introduction to Chronon Field Theory (Vaknin-Suchard)
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Everything is Just Potentials (Introduction to Chronon Field Theory (Vaknin-Suchard)
Maybe it's just in my head, but on the off chance it works for anyone else: I have used my $16 Amazon plant/grow lights as light therapy for years. Just laying beneath them or doing yoga under them. Again maybe I'm just tricking myself, but it's been a great hack for me. Hope it helps, homies. 🖖
Is it a personality disorder if you don’t want to be in a relationship and want to be alone in an old age?
The worst thing I did in my life was to go back to family. Trauma bonding is a real thing 😢
There’s no Love I just want the right to be alone
I love you Sam you have opened my eyes- father- malignant narcissist- husband covert narcissist- 19 years with my father 17 years so far with my husband I am not I don’t exist I have no personality and don’t know if I am …
Sharing space with someone has become a gamble, because of them not having the ability to trust, and share. It’s hard for many to formulate true friendships.
There is a lot to think about regarding the justification of behaviour.
Social media is the perfect solution for them.
Testosterone îs low in majority of men today here îs the problem
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damn that's good
Thanks 🙏
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Negative message. Its better to tell them to fuck off and move on.
My dad stole my identity. I’m going to save up some money and find a way to get out of this situation.
I only know when I hurt people when they tell me and it's rare that they have the courage. I hate it, I hate life and I hate myself for it. It makes life that much more difficult after what I've already been through. I'm just waiting to die basically. I would NEVER intentionally hurt someone but the anger seeps into every aspect of life and the therapists I have been to are less than helpful, they are just expensive. So all I can do to prevent it is to isolate.
narcisstic victimhood in a nutshell
when i was discarded he was in a chaos filled rant and just kept repeating over and over that he could never be good enough that he was such a loser and that i would always want more than he could give. i had always told him i never wanted anything from him but his love and trust and honesty. I didnt need anything material from him as i am self sufficient. i even offered many times to help him financially and he refused (now i realize this probably hurt his self idea even more to have me offer to help) he never ever believed me and always said why would someone like you want me. It was a never ending loop of his self-hatred. In the end i said "why can't you allow yourself the joy of friendship and love?". everything fell on deaf ears.
1. ✔️closed family, 2. ✔️ appearance > substance 3. ✔️ splitting, either or 4. ✔️ us against them 5. ✔️ roles, competitive pitting against another from a young age 6. ✔️ superficial communication 7. ✔️ ignored, mocked, backdooring 8. ✔️ inappropriate dynamics 9. ✔️ cannot be content, 10. ✔️ reframing 11. ✔️ adultifying 12. 13. ✔️ I've left my family alone but they haven't left me alone. They've gone on to tearing my closest relationships away from me but im still no contact and ill probanly be that way for the rest of my life unfortunately. i was never allowed to just be myself. I was never recognized for what i truly am. its always whatever narrative they choose. And it just got old explaining this kind of thing to them. they just got worse and worse when i ever talked about it or pulled away. But im doing a lot better now at 27 especially because i understand these things more. And it makes it easier to feel okay with being alone and building my life alone. Far far away from them. Thanks for your video.
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Dr Vaknin, I was going to go back to school to become a phycologist, but I have gone through traumas... should I not pursue this profession after all?
We are the salt of the earth, eternal children, the servants of humanity Merci
Can't integrate the shadow.
It takes more faith to believe in nothing, becasue there is a thought one may have - What if nothing is a lie, another made up construct of the mind.
A religious narcissist, of which there are many, are a hypocritical dichotomy.
The mentally ill are victims, but not if they do not seek help. The mentally ill can be abusive to others, such as the narc. It is difficult to have pity on a child in a adult's body when they are continually causing harm to others.
When you underline everything, you underline nothing
Thank you werry much sir sam .. Semper paratus Meier
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Brilliant
Sam your a straight shooter and this makes perfect sense after 40 years of me living in the desert, God has delivered...
I always choose not to choose an always rule
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in the gulag one can't take insinuations too seriously on counts of being led astray. "everything is fine, change my mind."
Emotional rescue. Quite lovely, Sam. With gratitude from me, a tall ordered shortcake. ❤️🩹
Can art save us ?
No comi agenda art shal be ugly too so you get depres..sorry best regards from europe
Actually they are. Intentionally.
Listen to the description starting at about 29:00 and think of what would have been a normal child. This is all the child knows before they learn words or how to walk. Fear, despair and pain - before you have formed your own first thoughts. Now this normal child will live what they learned. And "hurt people hurt people" is not talking about a narcissist. That's a pathology that's not normal. But this normal child is cruelly mistreated and they think that is normal because for them it is. Then they grow up but now they are hard-wired to lash out or hide. They don't know how to be in the world and they are horrified at the things they do without intent. There's a poem - Children live what they learn. It's not a matter of 'they could change if they wanted to' because as hard as they try when they are stressed or not thinking or, worse yet, retraumatized they will revert to what they learned in their cribs.
Im willing to explain to others with social skills disability so they can understand somehow and build a compass to make some sense on how to act or why they failed in certain interaction.
Always so much to learn. Many thanks, professor!
I needed to hear this today. Well done, sir.
Professor, could you please make a video about toxic family systems, particularly about the "identified patient" in such families?
Search the From Child to Narcissist playlist on my main channel.
There are numerous species of human beings and some of them are neurotypical. These are the ones to avoid, they are sane, bad and dangerous and to be honest I'd rather meet someone like Lord Byron- mad, bad and dangerous to any current world leader- sane, evil and a threat to the existence of life on Earth.
Leo here Star Wars: The Corruption of the Dark Side
1. I will treat myself with dignity and demand respect from others. 2. I will establish and communicate clear boundaries to others. 3. I will not tolerate abuse or aggression. Unacceptable behavior will be addressed immediately and firmly. 4. I will be assertive and unambiguous with regard to my needs, wishes, and expectations. I will love myself and take care of myself, uncompromisingly. 5. I will continually endeavor to know and understand myself more fully. 6. I will abide by the golden rule and treat others as I would like them to treat me. 7. I will terminate relationships with anyone who breaches or ignores my clearly communicated boundaries with haste. Zero tolerance. No second chances.
'Defeat and failure are a permanent fixture of your life, they're never going away, you're made up of defeats and losses and failures in a way no other person is' I did it again professor Vaknin, I self-sabotaged again, I sabotaged another relationship. I see, take in on the chin, try again.
Be compassionate to yourself ….
Towards the last 3rd of your video my emotions were welling up. What you say says so much about who I am . I sometimes try and ignore (pretend) I don't get panic attacks or whatever issue at the moment, but it's better to face oneself squarely. Then, give oneself grace, and move forward as best as one can. That takes courage. Then I stop myself. Don't want to veer into magical thinking ❤ Thank you, Professor Vaknin.
Beautifully said
Thank god that does not resonate with me
The manifestation of meaninglessness = Mental illness.
Requiem to the broken dreams.