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Writing is like painting with words. A long time ago, words were comprised of a succession of letters in the form of tiny images (pictograms), or visual ideas (ideograms). People vocalized these images: they uttered them aloud. Words were spoken long before they were written. Some words – known as onomatopoeias - even captured natural sounds: bottle, gurgle, jingle, bubble, or flip-flop. Good writing reflects these rhythms of speech. Good writing is akin to music. In poetry, we come closest to these musical roots of writing. No wonder all songs have poems as their lyrics. Other writing ...

450 pages about Borderline, Narcissistic, Antisocial-Psychopathic, Histrionic, Paranoid, Obsessive-Compulsive, Schizoid, Schizotypal, Masochistic, Sadistic, Depressive, Negativistic-Passive-Aggressive, Dependent, and other Personality Disorders.

Psychodynamic study of pathological narcissism, relationships with abusive narcissists and psychopaths, and Narcissistic Personality Disorder, using a new vocabulary and a model of personality disorders as post-traumatic conditions.

A first-hand account of the anatomy of a malignant mental illness (Narcissistic Personality Disorder): its traumatic origins, its inexorable unfolding, its pernicious outcomes.

Some narcissists are lone wolves, recluses, or hermits. They loathe human company and avoid it. All narcissists go through such phases of withdrawal, integral parts of their idealization-devaluation cycles (approach-avoidance repetition complex.) Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and Schizoid Personality Disorder share the same aetiology, psychodynamics, traits (such as grandiosity) and behavior patterns.

Most con-artists, fraudsters, and scammers are psychopathic narcissists. They have grandiose, delusional fantasies and are convinced in their own omnipotence and immunity. They are above the Law. Indeed, they are a law unto themselves. They cultivate cults of believers, followers, and fans: ultimately, their victims.

We need to reconceive of cluster B personality disorders as post-traumatic dissociative conditions involving self-states (subpersonalities with pseudoidentities). This seems to be the most clinically rigorous way to rid ourselves of excessive comorbidities and polythetic diagnoses. Recasting cluster B personality disorders as post-traumatic conditions which involve dissociation goes a long way towards resolving these outstanding conundrums.

This is a series of articles written and published in 1996-2000 in Macedonia, in Russia, in Egypt and in the Czech Republic. How the West lost the East. The economics, the politics, the geopolitics, the conspiracies, the corruption, the old and the new, the plough and the internet – it is all here, in prose, as provocative and vitriolic and loving and longing as I could make it. From "The Mind of Darkness": "'The Balkans' – I say – 'is the unconscious of the world'. People stop to digest this metaphor and then they nod enthusiastically. It is here that the repressed memories of ...

Sex is dead as is monogamous marriage. What will replace them? read about alternative lifestyles (such as swinging), sexual preferences (such as bi- and homosexuality), sexual paraphilias (such as incest, fetishism, and pedophilia), and the role of malignant narcissism in the disintegration of all relationships between men and women.

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

The fundamental assumptions underlying the modern study of psychopathology examined.

The effects on victims and survivors of traumatic experiences, long-term and repeated abuse, and torture. Includes in-depth profile of the Narcissistic Abuser and hundreds of links to literature and resources.

Russia's economy and politics under President Vladimir Putin.

In the 20th century, Romanticism, a 19th century malignant mutation of Renaissance humanism and its emphasis on the individual, provoked the counter-movements of Fascism,Communism, and Nazism. But, contrary to the observations of Jakob Burckhardt in his masterpiece, "The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy" (1860, 1878), it was the Renaissance that gave birth to the aesthetics of totalitarianism, to the personality cult, to the obsession with "men of action", to the cultivation of verbal propaganda and indoctrination (rhetoric) as means of influencing both the masses and decision-...

Short stories about bizarre mental health disorders. The mind is the most terrifying place of all!

Corruption runs against the grain of meritocratic capitalism. It skews the level playing-field; it imposes onerous and unpredictable transaction costs; it guarantees extra returns where none should have been had; it encourages the misallocation of economic resources; and it subverts the proper functioning of institutions. It is, in other words, without a single redeeming feature, a scourge. Strangely, this is not how it is perceived by its perpetrators: both the givers and the recipients. They believe that corruption helps facilitate the flow and exchange of goods and services in hopelessly...

Issues in ethics - the right to life, cloning, abortion, animal rights and other controversial topics.

The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to terrorism.

1. Cutting to Existence 2. Fearful Love 3. In the Concentration Camp Called Home 4. Prague at Dusk 5. The Old Gods Wander 6. Moi Aussi 7. When You Wake the Morning 8. Tableaux (on van Gogh) 9. Sally Ann 10. Prowling 11. Switching 12. Getting Old 13. Narcissism 14. Snowflake Haiku 15. A Hundred Children 16. In Moist Propinquity 17. Selfdream 18. The Miracle of the Kisses 19. Our Love Alivid 20. Synthetic Joy 21. Twinkle Star 22. My Putrid Lover 23. Hebrew Love 24. Her Birthday 25. To an Absent Wife