Studying Psychology discussion

Vaknin's insights are by far worth tolerating his often grandiose manner - he discloses up front that his unabashed manifestation of the personality disorder is the cause of this. This is the most exacting and detailed look at this disorder that I have found,including academic works.Worth the price,a book I would never loan and will refer to often.His other works on disorders which lack empathy are also worthy reads. This one is worth every penny.

Is that the name of the book Narcissistic? That sounds really interesting. I enjoyed learning from where that word came in Greek mythology.

Narcissus or Narkissos (Greek: Νάρκισσος), possibly derived from ναρκη (narke) meaning "sleep, numbness," in Greek mythology was a hunter from the territory of Thespiae in Boeotia who was renowned for his beauty. He was exceptionally proud, in that he disdained those who loved him. Nemesis saw this and attracted Narcissus to a pool where he saw his own reflection in the waters and fell in love with it, not realizing it was merely an image. Unable to leave the beauty of his reflection, Narcissus died.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissu...

I was responding to the monthly pick of Vaknin's book Malignant Self Love on NPD. He himself has this diagnosis and his insights are vivid and disturbing,but informational. That you noted numbness from the Greek myth is in keeping with the very limited emotional range that he explains people with NPD have. That sounds like a conflict with the rages, and depressions also described - or the euphoria derived from receiving attention, but as Vaknin explains a numbness inside is the base level of the disorder. He did describe what surrounded like a prolonged bad dream, passing for a human life.

Very Interesting...