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Narcissists and their Emotions
Narcissists and their Supply Sources
How to Cope with a Narcissist?
The Narcissist and His Mate /
Colleague / Partner / Spouse / FamilyNarcissism and Historical Figures
Co-Morbidity (Narcissism with other Mental Health Disorders)
and Dual Diagnosis (Narcissism with Substance Abuse)
Archive1 - Excerpt 5:
Epidemiology of Narcissism
Archive1 - Excerpt 13: Self-Defeating and Self-Destructive Behaviours
Archive1 - Excerpt 16: The vocations of Narcissists
Archive1 - Excerpt 17: Lazy Narcissists
Archive02 - Excerpt 3: Narcissistic Identity
Archive02 - Excerpt 4: Narcissists, Right and Wrong
Archive02 - Excerpt 6: Narcissists have Tables of Emotional Resonance
Archive02 - Excerpt 7: Contradictory Behaviours of Narcissists
Archive02 - Excerpt 10: Narcissists and Manipulation
Archive03 - Excerpt 1: Narcissists and Chemical Imbalances
Archive03 - Excerpt 7: NPD and Dual Diagnoses
Archive03 - Excerpt 9: From "Narcissism and the Search for Interiority" by Donald Kalsched
Archive04 - Excerpt 3: Narcissistic Self-Absorption
Archive05 - Excerpt 3: Narcissism as Self-definition
Archive05 - Excerpt 6: Devaluing the Significant Other
Archive05 - Excerpt 7: Should the Narcissist be Held Accountable for his Actions?
Archive05 - Excerpt 13: The Internalized Voice of the Narcissist
Archive06 - Excerpt 1: Narcissists and Ego Dystony
Archive06 - Excerpt 8: Degrees of Narcissism
Archive06 - Excerpt 14: Unified Dysfunction Theory
Archive07 - Excerpt 4: The Enemy
Archive07 - Excerpt 6: Narcissists as Drug Addicts
Archive07 - Excerpt 7: Alexander Lowen
Archive07 - Excerpt 15: Narcissistic Myths
Archive08 - Excerpt 1: Do Infants Trigger their Own Abuse?
Archive08 - Excerpt 4: Superego
Archive08 - Excerpt 7: The Human Machine
Archive08 - Excerpt 8: Conscience
Archive09 - Excerpt 3: Inverted Narcissism
Archive10 - Excerpt 1: The Exposure of the Narcissist
Archive10 - Excerpt 3: Narcissists, Disagreements and Criticism
Archive10 - Excerpt 4: Unresolved Conflicts
Archive10- Excerpt 10: Fortress Narcissism
Archive10 - Excerpt 11: Inverted Narcissists
Archive11 - Excerpt 1: The Productive Narcissist
Archive11 - Excerpt 8: Self-Confidence and Real Achievements
Archive12 - Excerpt 1: The Narcissist and Total Institutions
Archive12 - Excerpt 3: The Denial Mechanisms of the Narcissist
Archive12 - Excerpt 5: Traumas and Personality Disorders
Archive12 - Excerpt 8: The Narcissist - a Gift to Humanity
Archive12 - Excerpt 10: Forms of Aggression
Archive12 - Excerpt 11: Narcissist the Sadist
Archive12 - Excerpt 12: Somatic versus Cerebral Narcissists
Archive13 - Excerpt 1: The Formation of a Narcissist as a Reaction to His Narcissistic Parents
Archive13 - Excerpt 3: Narcissism - The Individualist's Reaction
Archive14 - Excerpt 1: Abusive Parents
Archive14 - Excerpt 3: Narcissistic Regression versus NPD
Archive14 - Excerpt 8: Narcissism and Genetics
Archive15 - Excerpt 1: Money and the Narcissist
Archive15 - Excerpt 6: Sexual Abuse
Archive17 - Excerpt 4: Narcissism as an Adaptive Strategy
Archive17 - Excerpt 5: The Zombie Narcissist
Archive18 - Excerpt 2: Narcissism is an Addiction
Archive18 - Excerpt 4: Emotional Investment in Pathology and Healing
Archive18 - Excerpt 5: The Emergence of the True Self
Archive18 - Excerpt 6: Bonding with "God"
Archive18 - Excerpt 7: Group Sex as seen by the Narcissist
Archive18 - Excerpt 8: Overt and Covert
Archive19 - Excerpt 2: Hating Love
Archive19 - Excerpt 5: Cognitive Distortions and the Narcissist
Archive19 - Excerpt 6: Sexual versus other forms of Abuse
Archive19 - Excerpt 7: The Narcissist and his Dead Ones
Archive20 - Excerpt 1: There is no Gaol
Archive20 - Excerpt 2: Inverted Narcissists Once More
Archive20 - Excerpt 3: Losing Control
Archive20 - Excerpt 10: The Pleasures of the Somatic Narcissist
Archive21 - Excerpt 1: Narcissistic Healing - through LOVE or through PAIN?
Archive21 - Excerpt 4: Inverted Narcissists ARE Narcissists
Archive21 - Excerpt 6: Fulfilling Others' Dreams
Archive22 - Excerpt 4: Narcissists and Control
Archive22 - Excerpt 6: Is Narcissism Learned? Can it be Unlearned?
Archive23 - Excerpt 2: Vindictive Narcissists
Archive23 - Excerpt 4: The Good Enough Mother
Archive24 - Excerpt 1: The Restrained Narcissist
Archive24 - Excerpt 9: Narcissism
Archive24 - Excerpt 10: Addicted
Archive24 - Excerpt 11: False Self
Archive24 - Excerpt 12: Worth and Grandiosity
Archive27 - Excerpt 1: Types of Narcissists
Archive28 - Excerpt 2: Eye Contact
Archive28 - Excerpt 3: Narcissism Forming
Archive28 - Excerpt 5: More about the False Self and the True Self
Archive30 - Excerpt 4: Narcissists ARE Appearances
Archive30 - Excerpt 7: The Rational Narcissist
Archive31 - Excerpt 1: Euphoria and Dysphoria
Archive31 - Excerpt 3: On the Move
Archive31 - Excerpt 5: N-magnets a Bad Metaphor
Archive31 - Excerpt 6: Ideas of Reference
Archive33 - Excerpt 1: Mirror Gazing
Archive33 - Excerpt 2: More on the Grandiosity Gap
Archive33 - Excerpt 3: Self-Awareness and Healing
Archive33 - Excerpt 4: Narcissistic Vulnerability
Archive34 - Excerpt 2: When can a Classic Narcissist become an Inverted Narcissist?
Archive34 - Excerpt 3: The Forms of Abuse
Archive34 - Excerpt 4: The Psychopath and the Narcissist
Archive34 - Excerpt 7: Amerlioration of Narcissism
Archive34 - Excerpt 8: Inside, Outside
Archive35 - Excerpt 2: Can Narcissists be Helped by Hypnosis?
Archive35 - Excerpt 3: Predicting the Narcissist
Archive36 - Excerpt 2:
Pathological Narcissism - Under-diagnosed
Archive37 - Excerpt 2:
Grandiosity and Rage
Narcissists and their Emotions
Archive02 - Excerpt 1:
A Letter to a Narcissist
Archive03 - Excerpt 8: Narcissists Imitating Emotions
Archive04 - Excerpt 5: PDs and Self-Mourning
Archive04 - Excerpt 9: Self-Pity and Grief
Archive05 - Excerpt 2: Pathological Envy
Archive05 - Excerpt 4: Narcissistic Ups and Downs
Archive05 - Excerpt 9: Narcissists Put on a Show Regarding Their "Emotions"?
Archive06 - Excerpt 11: I am Very Sad
Archive07 - Excerpt 2: My Shame
Archive08 - Excerpt 5: Emotional Daltonism
Archive11 - Excerpt 9: Communicating Emotions
Archive11 - Excerpt 10: Possessive Jealousy
Archive13 - Excerpt 4: Somatizing Our Emotions
Archive13 - Excerpt 5: The "Love" of the Narcissist
Archive14 - Excerpt 2: Hatred and Anger
Archive16 - Excerpt 3: Narcissists Feel Deceitful
Archive17 - Excerpt 6: Imitated Empathy
Archive17 - Excerpt 7: Narcissism and Self-Loathing
Archive17 - Excerpt 9: The Deception that is the Narcissist
Archive21 - Excerpt 3: Being IN LOVE and LOVING
Archive21 - Excerpt 7: Not to Feel Anything
Archive23 - Excerpt 5: Vindicating One's Self-Loathing
Archive25 - Excerpt 1: Resistance is Futile?
Archive25 - Excerpt 4: Fight!
Archive25 - Excerpt 7: Falling in Love with Ourselves
Archive26 - Excerpt 4: Aggression
Archive26 - Excerpt 5: To Live and to Grieve
Archive26 - Excerpt 6: Anticipatory Panic
Archive26 - Excerpt 7: My Warden
Archive26 - Excerpt 8: Love, this Bastard
Archive30 - Excerpt 1: Narcissists are Never Happy
Archive30 - Excerpt 3: Being Embarrassed
Archive30 - Excerpt 6: People are Tired
Archive32 - Excerpt 4:
Loving and Believing that You Love
Narcissists and their Supply Sources
Archive1 - Excerpt
1: Why does the Narcissist Devalue his Source of
Secondary Narcissistic Supply?
Archive05 - Excerpt 8: Narcissists Getting Tired of their Sources of Supply
Archive06 - Excerpt 12: The Narcissistic Hunt
Archive06 - Excerpt 15: Humbling Oneself
Archive10 - Excerpt 2: Could Negative Input be Narcissistic Supply?
Archive10 - Excerpt 5: The Narcissist Wants to be Liked?
Archive10 - Excerpt 6: Old Sources of Narcissistic Supply (NS)
Archive14 - Excerpt 5: Deleting Past Sources of Narcissistic Supply
Archive17 - Excerpt 8: In Pursuit of Narcissistic Supply
Archive24 - Excerpt 3: Myself as a Source of Narcissistic Supply to Others, or: The Existence of Others
Archive24 - Excerpt 5: Is there an Ideal Source of Supply?
Archive24 - Excerpt 8: You are a Source of Supply
Archive29 - Excerpt 2: Human Supply
Archive32 - Excerpt 2: From Desperation to Happiness
Archive32 - Excerpt 3: Internal Combustion and External Propulsion
Archive32 - Excerpt 5: The Art of Un-Being
Archive32 - Excerpt 6:
The Narcissist's Refrigerator
Archive1 - Excerpt 2:
Narcissistic Mental Health Professionals
Archive1 - Excerpt 4: NPD Treatments - SSRI
Archive1 - Excerpt 9: Cultural Sensitivity of Therapists
Archive1 - Excerpt 11: Psychodynamic versus Cognitive-Behavioral Treatments
Archive1 - Excerpt 14: Narcissism not Curable?
Archive03 - Excerpt 7: NPD and Dual Diagnoses
Archive04 - Excerpt 8: Psychodynamic Therapies
Archive05 - Excerpt 10: Narcissists Facing their Diagnosis
Archive06 - Excerpt 7: Narcissists and Group Therapy
Archive07 - Excerpt 1: Can Narcissists be Cured?
Archive11 - Excerpt 11: Pessimism versus Realism in the Treatment of Narcissists
Archive12 - Excerpt 4: Therapy
Archive12 - Excerpt 6: Narcissists and Medication
Archive12 - Excerpt 13: The Narcissist and the Therapist
Archive24 - Excerpt 6: Destruction and Construction
Archive26 - Excerpt 9: Going to Therapy
Archive26 - Excerpt 10:
Official Psychology and NPD
How to Cope with a Narcissist?
Archive1 - Excerpt
3: How to Cope with a Narcissist
Archive03 - Excerpt 3: Should I Leave Him?
Archive06 - Excerpt 15: Humbling Oneself
Archive07 - Excerpt 3: Luring a Narcissist
Archive15 - Excerpt 2: Treating your Narcissist
Archive15 - Excerpt 4: What to Tell your Narcissist?
Archive19 - Excerpt 4: Leaving a Narcissist
Archive20 - Excerpt 5: How to Assuage a Narcissist
Archive21 - Excerpt 2: The Narcissist in Court
Archive 31 - Excerpt 7: Fighting Back
Archive 34 - Excerpt 9:
How does the Narcissist Perceive my Indifference to his Abuse?
Archive05 - Excerpt 12: Male
Narcissists and Women
Archive06 - Excerpt 6: Narcissists are Misogynists
Archive09 - Excerpt 4: Narcissists and Women
Archive13 - Excerpt 6: Misogynism Once More ...
Archive26 - Excerpt 1:
Women
The Narcissist and His Mate /
Colleague / Partner /
Spouse / Family
Archive1 - Excerpt
6: Rescue Fantasies
Archive1 - Excerpt 7: Loving a Narcissist
Archive02 - Excerpt 2: Narcissists in the Family
Archive03 - Excerpt 3: Should I Leave Him?
Archive03 - Excerpt 4: Significant Others, Significant Roles
Archive03 - Excerpt 6: Humans as Instruments
Archive04 - Excerpt 4: Narcissists as Friends
Archive05 - Excerpt 11: Narcissists and Happy Marriages
Archive05 - Excerpt 16: The Narcissist as Body Snatcher
Archive06 - Excerpt 2: VoNPD (Victims of NPD)
Archive06 - Excerpt 3: Surrounded by Inferiors
Archive06 - Excerpt 4: Narcissists Hurting Others
Archive06 - Excerpt 12: The Narcissistic Hunt
Archive06 - Excerpt 13: WHY?
Archive06 - Excerpt 15: Humbling Oneself
Archive07 - Excerpt 3: Luring a Narcissist
Archive07 - Excerpt 5: Victim or Survivor?
Archive08 - Excerpt 3: Disinterested Narcissists
Archive08 - Excerpt 12: Accusing the Victims
Archive09 - Excerpt 5: Narcissists and their Ex's
Archive09 - Excerpt 6: Narcissists Victimize
Archive10 - Excerpt 7: Hurting Others
Archive10 - Excerpt 8: Narcissists and Intimacy
Archive11 - Excerpt 2: Abandoning the Narcissist
Archive11 - Excerpt 3: Unloving the Sick or Needy Spouse
Archive11 - Excerpt 4: Moving On
Archive11 - Excerpt 5: Inspirational Messages
Archive11 - Excerpt 6: The Phases of Mourning
Archive11 - Excerpt 7: Forgiving Enemies, Forgetting Friends
Archive12 - Excerpt 7: NPD Son
Archive12 - Excerpt 14: Being Nice to Others
Archive13 - Excerpt 2: The Test of Archaic Chinese
Archive14 - Excerpt 4: Narcissists and Abandonment
Archive15 - Excerpt 2: Treating your Narcissist
Archive15 - Excerpt 4: What to Tell your Narcissist?
Archive15 - Excerpt 5: Narcissists Hate Happy People
Archive16 - Excerpt 4: Healing through Hatred
Archive18 - Excerpt 3: You are not to Blame!
Archive19 - Excerpt 3: Living with a Narcissist
Archive19 - Excerpt 4: Leaving a Narcissist
Archive20 - Excerpt 5: How to Assuage a Narcissist
Archive20 - Excerpt 6: Don't Kiss Me without Permission
Archive20 - Excerpt 8: Love as Domination
Archive21 - Excerpt 8: The Presumption of Understanding the Narcissist - A Piece of Irony
Archive22 - Excerpt 5: Meaningful to Who?
Archive23 - Excerpt 6: The Narcissist as a Meaningful Other
Archive24 - Excerpt 7: Punishing Others
Archive25 - Excerpt 2: Narcissists as Vampires
Archive25 - Excerpt 3: The Need to be Hopeful
Archive25 - Excerpt 5: The Narcissist as Predator
Archive25 - Excerpt 6: Seeking Help
Archive26 - Excerpt 2: Do not be Afraid
Archive26 - Excerpt 11: Loving Narcissism
Archive 27 - Excerpt 3: Love
Archive 27 - Excerpt 4: It is not what you DO
Archive 27 - Excerpt 5: You know what you have to DO
Archive 27 - Excerpt 6: Presumptions
Archive 27 - Excerpt 7: Humanizing the Beast
Archive28 - Excerpt 4: The Human Maelstroms
Archive28 - Excerpt 6: Detoxifying
Archive30 - Excerpt 2: The Off-Handed Narcissist
Archive30 - Excerpt 5: Personal Incompatibility
Archive 31 - Excerpt 2: Saying Goodbye
Archive 31 - Excerpt 4: Creating Dependence
Archive 31 - Excerpt 5: N-magnets a Bad Metaphor
Archive 31 - Excerpt 7: Fighting Back
Archive 32 - Excerpt 1: How to Protect my Son from Narcissism?
Archive 33 - Excerpt 5: Narcissists, Violence and Domestic Abuse
Archive 34 - Excerpt 1: Follies a Deux
Archive 34 - Excerpt 6: The Professional Victims
Archive 35 - Excerpt 1: How to Leave a Narcissist
Archive 35 - Excerpt 4:
Narcissists and Children
Archive02 - Excerpt 11: The
Narcissist Employer
Narcissism and Historical Figures
Archive1 - Excerpt 8:
Hitler and Narcissism
Archive1 - Excerpt 12: Bill
Clinton - a Narcissist?
Co-Morbidity
(Narcissism with
other Mental Health Disorders)
and Dual Diagnosis
(Narcissism with
Substance Abuse)
Archive04 - Excerpt 1:
HPD (Histrionic Personality Disorder) and Somatic NPD
Archive04- Excerpt 2: Narcissists and Depression
Archive04 - Excerpt 6: DID and NPD
Archive04 - Excerpt 7: NPD and ADHD
Archive04 - Excerpt 11: BPD, NPD and other Cluster B PDs
Archive07 - Excerpt 8: NPDs and other PDs
Archive07 - Excerpt 9: Incest without Sex?
Archive07 - Excerpt 10: NPD and DID
Archive07 - Excerpt 11: Plasticity
Archive08- Excerpt 9: BPD and NPD
Archive08 - Excerpt 10: The Personality Disordered
Archive08 - Excerpt 11: Robert Hare
Archive08 - Excerpt 13: Multiple Diagnoses and NPD
Archive08 - Excerpt 2: Narcissism, Wife Beating and Alcoholism
Archive09 - Excerpt 2: Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Archive12 - Excerpt 9: Co-dependents and Narcissists
Archive12 - Excerpt 11: Narcissist the Sadist
Archive19 - Excerpt 1: The Hated-Hating Personality Disordered
Archive20 - Excerpt 4: The Borderline Narcissist - A Psychotic?
Archive20 - Excerpt 7: The Root of Evil
Archive21 - Excerpt 5: Masochism and Narcissism
Archive22 - Excerpt 1: Narcissists and Sexual Perversions
Archive22 - Excerpt 3: Hysteroid Dysphoria
Archive23 - Excerpt 7: On the Irrelevance of Labelling
Archive 27 - Excerpt 2: The Inverted Narcissist - A Masochist?
Archive28 - Excerpt 7: NPD, AsPD
Archive 34 - Excerpt 5:
The Diagnostic and Statistics Manual (DSM)
Archive1 - Excerpt
10: NPD, Culture and Normalcy
Archive1 - Excerpt 15: Narcissism and Culture
Archive1 - Excerpt 16: The Vocations of Narcissists
Archive02 - Excerpt 5: In Defence of Narcissists
Archive02 - Excerpt 8: From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho
Archive02 - Excerpt 9: Narcissism's Gifts to Humanity
Archive03 - Excerpt 5: Lasch, the Cultural Narcissist
Archive04 - Excerpt 10: Should we Licence Parents?
Archive05 - Excerpt 1: Jeffrey Satinover on the Myth of Narcissus
Archive05 - Excerpt 5: Narcissists and the Order of the World
Archive06 - Excerpt 5: Narcissists and Art
Archive06 - Excerpt 9: Narcissism and Evil
Archive06 - Excerpt 10: Why do Narcissists Exist?
Archive07 - Excerpt 12: A Core of Values?
Archive07 - Excerpt 13: Licensing Parents (continued)
Archive07 - Excerpt 14: Nations as Patients
Archive08 - Excerpt 6: Atheism
Archive09 - Excerpt 1: Love and Sex
Archive10 - Excerpt 9: Personality Disorders are Culture-Dependent?
Archive12 - Excerpt 2: The Cultural Roots of one Narcissist
Archive12 - Excerpt 15: Prostituting our Selves
Archive14 - Excerpt 7: Narcissism and Nihilism
Archive15 - Excerpt 7: Punishing Evil
Archive15 - Excerpt 8: Psychology
Archive18 - Excerpt 1: Linear Time, Cyclical Time
Archive18 - Excerpt 9: Oh, God
Archive23 - Excerpt 3: Narcissistic Thoughts about Humanity
Archive36 - Excerpt 1:
Politicians as Narcissists
Archive03 - Excerpt 2:
Personal Anecdote
Archive03 - Excerpt 10: Sam Vaknin, NPD
Archive05 - Excerpt 14: My Role in the List
Archive05 - Excerpt 15: This Paradoxical List...
Archive06 - Excerpt 11: I am Very Sad
Archive06 - Excerpt 16: The Time before Narcissism
Archive07 - Excerpt 2: My Shame
Archive14 - Excerpt 6: Realizations
Archive15 - Excerpt 3: Forgetting my Self
Archive16 - Excerpt 1: Self-Destructing Narcissists
Archive16 - Excerpt 2: The Fear of Being Loved
Archive17 - Excerpt 1: Interview with a Narcissist
Archive17 - Excerpt 2: Another One ... (Interview)
Archive17 - Excerpt 3: Email Exchange in preparation for an interview granted to Bob Goodman of "Natterbox"
Archive20 - Excerpt 9: My Guardian Angel
Archive22 - Excerpt 2: I Hate Birthdays
Archive23 - Excerpt 1: Interview at Amazon UK
Archive24 - Excerpt 2: About Myself (what else?)
Archive24 - Excerpt 3: Myself as a Source of Narcissistic Supply to Others, or: The Existence of Others
Archive24 - Excerpt 4: Right Now I am Enraged
Archive26 - Excerpt 3: The Information Addict
Archive28 - Excerpt 1: The Digital Narcissist (SEX)
Archive29 - Excerpt 1: Here you are, Madam
Archive29 - Excerpt 2: Human Supply
Archive29 - Excerpt 3: The Time of the Narcissist
Archive29 - Excerpt 4: Abuse
Archive29 - Excerpt 5: Success
Archive29 - Excerpt 6: Rejection
Archive 35 - Excerpt 5: Why do I Write Poetry?
Archive 36 - Excerpt 3: Interview - The Narcissist as an Author
Archive37 - Excerpt 1: Application to the Media
Archive37 - Excerpt 3: Second Interview with Amazon
Archive37 - Excerpt 4: Interview to JustViews
Archive37 - Excerpt 5: Revisiting Myself
Lasch - The Cultural Narcissist
Excerpts from Archives of the Narcissism List
Narcissism Frequently Asked Questions
The Iron Mask - the Common Sources of Personality Disorders
Internet: A Medium or a Message?
After the Rain + A Macedonian Encounter
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