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The Narcissistic Personality Disorder and abusive relationships with narcissists described and analyzed in 80 frequently asked questions (FAQs).

The Narcissistic Personality Disorder, abusive relationships with narcissists, and Pathological Narcissism described and analyzed in 80 frequently asked questions. When the personality is rigid to the point of being unable to change in reaction to changing circumstances — we say that it is disordered. Such a person takes behavioral, emotional, and cognitive cues exclusively from others. His inner world is, so to speak, vacated. His True Self is dilapidated and dysfunctional. Instead he has a tyrannical and delusional False Self. Such a person is incapable of loving and of living. He cannot love others because he cannot love himself. He loves his reflection, his surrogate self. And he is incapable of living because life is a struggle towards, a striving, a drive at something. In other words: life is change. He who cannot change cannot live. The narcissist is an actor in a monodrama, yet forced to remain behind the scenes. The scenes take center stage, instead. The Narcissist does not cater at all to his own needs. Contrary to his reputation, the Narcissist does not "love" himself in any true sense of the word. He feeds off other people, who hurl back at him an image that he projects to them. This is their sole function in his world: to reflect, to admire, to applaud, to detest — in a word, to assure him that he exists. Otherwise, the narcissist feels, they have no right to tax his time, energy, or emotions. The main body of research about Narcissism is surveyed. Malignant Self Love — Narcissism Re—Visited offers a detailed, first hand account of what it is like to have a Narcissistic Personality Disorder. It offers new insights and an organized methodological framework using a new psychodynamic language. Narcissism is a slippery subject: only with great difficulty can it be captured with words. A new vocabulary had to be invented to account for the myriad of facets and appearances — false and true — of this disease. Thus, the essay part of this book requires some understanding of psychoanalytic terminology. The first part of the book is more accessible and less jargon—laden. It comprises more than 80 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding Narcissism and personality disorders. The posting of Malignant Self Love — Narcissism Re—Visited on the Web has elicited a flood of excited, sad and heart rending responses, mostly from victims of Narcissists but also from people suffering from the NPD. This is a true picture of the resulting correspondence with them. This book is not intended to please or to entertain. NPD is a pernicious, vile and tortuous disease, which affects not only the Narcissist. It infects and forever changes people who are in daily contact with the Narcissist. In other words: it is contagious. It is my contention that Narcissism is the mental epidemic of the twentieth century, a plague to be fought by all means. This book is my contribution to minimizing the damages of this disorder.

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