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samvaknin - who has written 8 posts on PoliticalArticles.NET.
Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) 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 Central Europe Review, Global Politician, PopMatters, eBookWeb , and Bellaonline, and as a United Press International (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent. He was the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101.
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Posted on 11 August 2008
Obama’s early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with traumatic and mentally bruising dislocations.
Popularity: 9% [?]
Tags: abuse, antisocial, barack obama, battering, borderline, cluster B, compensatory, deviance, divorce, domestic violence, DSM IV, ego, emotional abuse, harassment, incest, Indonesia, inverted, Mixed-race Marriage, molestation, narcissism, narcissistic, narcissistic personality disorder, NPD, obama, object relations, paraphilias, pathology, pedophilia, personality, personality disorders, perversions, psychiatry, psychodynamics, psychological abuse, psychology, psychopathology, psychopaths, psychotherapy, relationships, schizoid, self, serial killers, sexual abuse, spousal abuse, stalking, therapy, verbal abuse
Posted on 21 July 2008
Interview granted to Misty Harris of CanWest on February 23, 2005
Q. How might technology be enabling narcissism, particularly for the Internet generation?
A. To believe that the Internet is an unprecedented phenomenon with unique social implications is, in itself, narcissistic. The Internet is only the latest in a long series of networking-related technological developments. By [...]
Popularity: 9% [?]
Tags: Blogs, Facebook, Internet, Myspace, narcissistic personality disorder, Narcissists, NPD, Pathological Narcissism, psychopaths, Sam Vaknin, Self Promotion, Society, Technology, YouTube
Posted on 24 June 2008
It is a scam two decades old - and it still works.
Popularity: 18% [?]
Tags: Africa, Benin, Burkina Faso, Canada, Congo, Fraudsters, Ghana, Internet Fraud, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigerian Business, Nigerian organized Crime, Nigerian Scams, Olusegun Obasanjo, Oman, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Taiwan, The United Kingdom, Togo, Vietnam, White Collar Crime
Posted on 24 May 2008
The United States is one of the last remaining land empires. That it is made the butt of opprobrium and odium is hardly surprising, or unprecedented.
Popularity: 40% [?]
Tags: Afghanistan, al-Qaida, Balkans, democracy, dictators, dictatorship, elections, ethnic, Europe, european union, Hizbullah, ideology, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East, minorities, nation, parliament, peace, political parties, politicians, politics, secession, sovereignty, state, Syria, Terrorism, tyranny, United States, War
Posted on 23 April 2008
Traditionally, the international community has been reluctant to treat civil strife the same way it does international armed conflict.
Popularity: 51% [?]
Tags: Albania, Austria, Balkans, Bulgaria, CEE, Central Europe, Centraleastern Europe, Croatia, Czech Republic, democracy, dictators, dictatorship, Eastern Europe, elections, ethnic, Germany, Habsburg, ideology, Macedonia, minorities, nation, NIS, Ottoman, parliament, political parties, politicians, politics, Russia, secession, SEE, Southeastern Europe, sovereignty, state, Turkey, tyranny, Yugoslavia