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.

Psychotics are fully aware of events and people "out there". They cannot, however separate data and experiences originating in the outside world from information generated by internal mental processes...

We are in the throes of a third wave. Instead of buying and selling assets one way (as tangibles) or the other (as symbols) - we increasingly trade in expectations (in other words, we transfer risks)....

Life, bemoans Sam, has dealt him a bad hand. He is consistently and repeatedly victimized by his clients, for instance. They take credit for his ideas and leverage them to promote themselves, but then...

Syphilis is a venereal (sexually transmitted) disease. It has a few stages and involves unpleasant phenomena such as lesions and skin eruptions.

Anxiety breeds frustration and is followed by rage. The outburst lasts but a second and Magda reasserts control over her emotions by counting aloud (only odd numbers).

Why did he force the mother to dump her by now limp and profusely bleeding infant daughter outside the door?

Mike is attending therapy at the request of his wife. She complains that he is "emotionally absent" and aloof. Mike shrugs.

Sam is gregarious and somewhat narcissistic. He likes being the center of attention. Still, he is a virtual hermit.

She acknowledges that he is verbally and sometimes physically abusive. He has cheated on her more times than she can count, usually with classmates at the university.

The current view of orthodoxy is that the eating disordered patient is attempting to reassert control over her life by ritually regulating her food intake and her body weight. In t...

Parapsychological phenomena - once convincingly demonstrated in laboratory settings - can help to upset current scientific laws and theories.

The Asperger's Disorder patient is self-centered and engrossed in a narrow range of interests and activities.

The Bipolar Disorder got its name because the mania is followed by - usually protracted - depressive attacks.

Patients with personality disorders are often anxious. Narcissists, for instance, are preoccupied with the need to secure social approval or attention (Narcissistic Supply).

Mark veers between being bored with our encounter and being annoyed by it.