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 Central Europe Review, Global Politician, PopMatters, and eBookWeb , and Bellaonline, and as a United Press International (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent. He is the the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101.

Bankers, brokers, and financial analysts - are they all malignant narcissists and psychopaths?

The disintegration of the USSR in 1992 led directly to the current financial crisis, which started in 2007.

The online image is replacing the printed and the digital word.

Barack Obama is often "diagnosed" as a narcissist. Read on and judge for yourself!

Both Greece and Macedonia have "adopted" Alexander the Great - a deranged mass murderer - as their own.

Biofuels are more a menace than a promise.

Maps are the on-screen meaphor that's best suited to capture and cope with a realm of networks.

Men and women seek different qualities in each other.

The forthcoming recovery is a false dawn and will be followed by a Depression.

Guide to online resources regarding the psychology of scammers.

Government should counteract business cycles.

Politicians act as "blank screens" on which we projects our emotional needs and hopes.

Dating is a complex business that requires perspicacity and caution.

No one likes prophets because they are justified in uttering: "I told you so!"

Sports fulfill numerous psychological functions and needs.