Mental Illness: Is There Such a Thing?
Nothingness: Antidote to Narcissism
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Nothingness is the only antidote to the tsunami of individual and collective narcissism that is threatening to drown us all. Learn more about this philosophical system on this channel. Sam Vaknin has a Ph.D in Physics and is an accomplished, published, and much awarded physicist, economist, and author of short fiction and poetry. He pioneered the modern study of pathological narcissism and narcissistic abuse (a phrase he coined) in 1995. Sam Vaknin is a former Visiting Professor of Psychology in Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia and a Professor of Finance in CIAPS (Commonwealth Institute of Advanced and Professional Studies), Cambridge UK. He is a visiting professor of psychology and economics in SEEU (South East European University), North Macedonia.
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Someone is considered mentally "ill" if: 1. His conduct rigidly and consistently deviates from the typical, average behaviour of all other people in his culture and society that fit his profile (whether this conventional behaviour is moral or rational is immaterial), or 2. His judgment and grasp of objective, physical reality is impaired, and 3. His conduct is not a matter of choice but is innate and irresistible, and 4. His behavior causes him or others discomfort, and is 5. Dysfunctional, self-defeating, and self-destructive even by his own yardsticks. Descriptive criteria aside, what is the essence of mental disorders? Are they merely physiological disorders of the brain, or, more precisely of its chemistry?
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