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Psychology

• Schindler's List
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 05:31:32 PM, by Robert Levin) (The following was written in 1993.) Recently, when a visiting friend wanted to rent it, I saw "Schindler’s List" again. I can report that a second viewing of Ralph Fiennes’ portrayal of the concentration camp commandant Amon Goeth yields even more...
• Traumas as Social Interactions
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 05:31:32 PM, by Sam Vaknin) ("He" in this text - to mean "He" or "She"). We react to serious mishaps, life altering setbacks, disasters, abuse, and death by going through the phases of grieving. Traumas are the complex outcomes of psychodynamic and biochemical processes. But t...
• The Psychology of Torture - Part I
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 05:31:32 PM, by Sam Vaknin) There is one place in which one's privacy, intimacy, integrity and inviolability are guaranteed – one's body, a unique temple and a familiar territory of sensa and personal history. The torturer invades, defiles and desecrates this shrine. He does so ...
• Sex or Gender - Part II
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 05:31:32 PM, by Sam Vaknin) The Encyclopedia Britannica 2003 edition describes the formation of ovaries and testes thus: "In the young embryo a pair of gonads develop that are indifferent or neutral, showing no indication whether they are destined to develop into testes or ova...
• Sex or Gender - Part I
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 05:31:32 PM, by Sam Vaknin) Alan Pease, author of a book titled "Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps", believes that women are spatially-challenged compared to men. The British firm, Admiral Insurance, conducted a study of half a million claims. They found that "women...
• Serial Killers
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 05:31:32 PM, by Sam Vaknin) Countess Erszebet Bathory was a breathtakingly beautiful, unusually well-educated woman, married to a descendant of Vlad Dracula of Bram Stoker fame. In 1611, she was tried - though, being a noblewoman, not convicted - in Hungary for slaughtering 612 ...
• What is Narcissism?
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 05:31:32 PM, by Sam Vaknin) A pattern of traits and behaviours which signify infatuation and obsession with one's self to the exclusion of all others and the egotistic and ruthless pursuit of one's gratification, dominance and ambition. Most narcissists (50-75%, according to t...
• The Myth of Mental Illness - Part II
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 05:31:31 PM, by Sam Vaknin) That psychoactive medication alters behaviour and mood is indisputable. So do illicit and legal drugs, certain foods, and all interpersonal interactions. That the changes brought about by prescription are desirable – is debatable and involves tautolog...
• The Cyber Narcissist
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 05:31:31 PM, by Sam Vaknin) To the narcissist, the Internet is an alluring and irresistible combination of playground and hunting grounds, the gathering place of numerous potential Sources of Narcissistic Supply, a world where false identities are the norm and mind games the bon ...
• Narcissism, Substance Abuse, and Reckless Behaviours
  (Fri Dec 9th, 2005 05:31:31 PM, by Sam Vaknin) Pathological narcissism is an addiction to Narcissistic Supply, the narcissist's drug of choice. It is, therefore, not surprising that other addictive and reckless behaviours – workaholism, alcoholism, drug abuse, pathological gambling, compulsory sho...

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