Shmuel Vaknin – Malignant Self Love Narcissism Revisited

Description Of Malignant Self Love Narcissism Revisited

“The strength of this book comes from the author’s vantage point: he is a Narcissist (with a capital N). He is an ‘insider,’ who discovered that he has the unbridled trait of narcissism and that this was the source of many of the difficulties in his professional and personal life. So we shall say at the outset that if you wish to get under the skin of a Narcissist (we shall call him the ‘N type’), if you wish to get to know how he thinks and feels and why he behaves as he does, then this is the book for you.

Of particular interest is Dr. Vaknin’s description of one type of symbiotic relationship between and N type and a submissive type (his particular ‘danse macabre’) in which the Narcissist’s partner is tolerant of the abuse that he receives to the point of ‘masochism.’ This symbiotic relationship is somewhat reminiscent of Karen Horney’s ‘morbid dependency’ between an aggressive type and a submissive type.”

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