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: On Uniqueness by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Is being special or unique a property of an object (let us say, a human being), independent of the existence or the actions of observers - or is this a product of a common judgement
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: Traumas as Social Interactions by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. ("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.
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: The Happiness of Others by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Is there any necessary connection between our actions and the happiness of others? Disregarding for a moment the murkiness of the definitions of "actions" in philosophical
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: The Egoistic Friend by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. What are friends for and how can a friendship be tested? By behaving altruistically, would be the most common answer and by sacrificing one's interests in favour of one's friends.
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: On Achievement by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. If a comatose person were to earn an interest of 1 million USD annually on the sum paid to him as compensatory damages would this be considered an achievement of his? To succeed
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: The Offspring of Aeolus - On the Incest Taboo by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Incest is not such a clear-cut matter as it has been made out to be over millennia of taboos. Many participants claim to have enjoyed the act and its
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: Parenting - The Irrational Vocation by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. There are some grounds to assume that a cognitive dissonance is involved in feeling that children are more a satisfaction than a nuisance. Why do people bother
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: Narcissistic Personality Disorder - Who is a Malignant Narcissist? by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. QUESTION Number 1 - Who is a Narcissist? Dear Dr. Vaknin, I read the excerpts you placed on your web site with great interest.
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: Narcissistic Personality Disorder Tips by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. FIVE DON'T DO'S How to Avoid the Wrath of the Narcissist Never disagree with the narcissist or contradict him Never offer him any intimacy Look
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: Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) At a Glance by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Most narcissists (75%) are men. NPD is one of a "family" of personality disorders (formerly known as "Cluster B"). Other members: Borderline
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: Morality As A Mental State by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. INTRODUCTION Moral values, rules, principles, and judgements are often thought of as beliefs or as true beliefs. Those who hold them to be true beliefs also annex to
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: Metaphors of the Mind (Part II) by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Storytelling has been with us since the days of campfire and besieging wild animals. It served a number of important functions: amelioration of fears, communication
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: Metaphors of the Mind (Part I) by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. The brain (and, by implication, the Mind) has been compared to the latest technological innovation in every generation. The computer metaphor is now in vogue. Computer
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: The Iron Mask - The Common Sources of Personality Disorders by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Do all personality disorders have a common psychodynamic source? To what stage of personal development can we attribute this common source?
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: The Cultural Narcissist - Lasch In An Age Of Diminishing Expectations by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. "The new narcissist is haunted not by guilt but by anxiety. He seeks not to inflict his own certainties on others but to find
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: On Empathy by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1999 edition) defines empathy as: "The ability to imagine oneself in anther's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. It
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: On Dis-ease by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. We are all terminally ill. It is a matter of time before we all die. Aging and death remain almost as mysterious as ever. We feel awed and uncomfortable when we contemplate these twin
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: The Family Cycle (I) - Euphoric and Dysphoric Cycles in Marriage by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Despite all the fashionable theories of marriage, the narratives and the feminists, the reasons to engage in marriage largely remain
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: An Embarrassment of Riches - Part II by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. http://www.doi.org/ The DOI Foundation has unveiled the DOI-EB (EB stands for e-books) Initiative in the Book Expo America Show 2001, to, in their words:
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: An Embarrassment of Riches - Part I by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. http://www.doi.org/ The Internet is too rich. Even powerful and sophisticated search engines, such as Google, return a lot of trash, dead ends, and Error 404's
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: An Embarrassment of Riches - Part I by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. http://www.doi.org/ The Internet is too rich. Even powerful and sophisticated search engines, such as Google, return a lot of trash, dead ends, and Error 404's
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: Jamaican OverDrive - LCD's in LDC's by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. OverDrive - an e-commerce, software conversion and e-publishing applications leader - has just expanded an e-book technology centre by adding 200 e-book editors.
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: Maps of Cyberspace by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. "Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts...A graphical representation
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: The Idea of Reference by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. http://www.britannica.com There is no source of reference remotely as authoritative as the Encyclopaedia Britannica. There is no brand as venerable and as veteran as this mammoth
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: E(merging) Books by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. A novel re-definition through experimentation of the classical format of the book is emerging. Consider the now defunct BookTailor. It used to sell its book customization software
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: Deja Googled by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. http://groups.google.com/ http://groups.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce.html The Internet may have started as the fervent brainchild of DARPA, the US defence agency - but
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: The Metaphors of the Net by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Four metaphors come to mind when we consider the Internet "philosophically": A Genetic Blueprint A Chaotic Library A Collective Nervous System An Unknown Continent
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: Internet : A Medium or a Message by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. The State of the Net An Interim Report about the Future of the Internet Who are the participants who constitute the Internet? Users - connected to the net
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: The Ghost in the Net by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. However far modern science and technology have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible. Today, the
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: The Seamless Web by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. http://www.enfish.com/ The hype over ubiquitous (or pervasive) computing (computers everywhere) has masked a potentially more momentous development. It is the convergence of computing
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