AUTHOR BIO:
Sam Vaknin is the author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" and
"After the Rain - How the West Lost the East".
He is a columnist in "Central
Europe Review", United Press International (UPI) and ebookweb.org and the
editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open
Directory, Suite101 and searcheurope.com.
Until recently, he served
as the Economic Advisor to the Government of Macedonia.
His web site: http://samvak.tripod.com
E-mail addresses:
palma@unet.com.mk
samvak@visto.com
NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY
DISORDER
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I maintain extensive websites regarding
Pathological Narcissism, the Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Personality
Disorders.
I would appreciate if you could visit them and add them to
your links.
Additionally, feel free to re-print or mirror any of the
material subject to appropriate credit and link-back.
These are the main
web addresses (they are updated regularly - last time was
yesterday):
http://samvak.tripod.com/faq1.html
(Dozens of Frequently Asked Questions regarding Pathological
Narcissism, NPD and Personality Disorders - upon accessing the page, please
scroll down to review a complete list)
http://samvak.tripod.com/msla.html
(A
psychodynamic study of Narcissism, using a new vocabulary - a bit difficult if
you haven't gone through the FAQs first)
http://samvak.tripod.com/narclist.html
(The Narcissism Discussion List page)
http://samvak.tripod.com/archive01.html
(Excerpts from the Archives of the Narcissism List)
(This is
the first page. At the bottom of each page, there is a link to the next page of
excerpts - there are currently 36 such pages but pages are added
periodically).
http://samvak.tripod.com
(The main
Gate to all my sites - download more that 5 Mb of material about Pathological
Narcissism, NPD and Personality Disorders FREE)
You can also search my
entire site:
Go to: http://samvak.tripod.com and click on the
words "Search My Site" (in blue text).
My Narcissistic Personality
Disorder Suite101 site (discussions, journal entries and
links):
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/npd
Philosophical essays, some of them concerned with mental health, can
be found here:
http://samvak.tripod.com/culture.html
Online tutorials regarding the Narcissistic personality Disorder
(NPD) - based on "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited" -
HERE:
Pathological Narcissism - Beginners` Level
http://www.findtutorials.com/new/tutorial/ViewTutorial.asp?article_id=12
Pathological Narcissism - Intermediate Level
http://www.findtutorials.com/new/tutorial/ViewTutorial.asp?article_id=17
Pathological Narcissism - Advanced Level
http://www.findtutorials.com/new/tutorial/ViewTutorial.asp?article_id=14
Download a complete course in 150 lessons and dozens of links to
valuable web sites - it's FREE - click HERE:
http://www.blackboard.com/courses/narcissism
Read free excerpts from my book, "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism
Revisited"
http://samvak.tripod.com/mslpdf.zip
Finally, why not download a Pathological Narcissism Primer and
Glossary
(To view - a Babylon browser is needed and can be downloaded
here:
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):
http://info.babylon.com/cgi-bin/template.cgi?id=2744
http://samvak.tripod.com/narcissism.zip
CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND THE
BALKAN
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I maintain extensive websites
regarding Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (the Balkans) - their
societies, history, politics and economies.
I would appreciate if you
could add them to your links.
Additionally, feel free to re-print any of
the articles with the appropriate credit and link-back.
These are the
main web addresses:
http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html
(An anthology of well over 180 essays and articles published in
various countries regarding Central, Eastern and Southeastern
Europe)
http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html
(The Author Archive of Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" -
contains dozens of articles published in "Central Europe Review" regarding
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe / Balkans)
http://www.balkanlands.com
Articles and essays about the current conflicts in the
Balkan
You can also search my entire site:
Go to: http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html and
click on the words "Search My Site" (in blue text).
Balkan essays and
articles here:
http://www.balkanlands.com
My
anthology of published articles and essays regarding the region was just
released.
To learn more about "After the Rain - How the West Lost the
East" - visit HERE:
http://www.geocities.com/vaksam/after.html
or
http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html
Brendan Howley in "The Blue Ear - Global Writing Worth Reading"
says:
"After the Rain is that rarest of reading experiences: principled
and thoughtful and irritating and prescient, all at once. Vaknin will be proved
right or wrong as history grinds on in the Balkans, but his is a book I will
return to."
http://www.blueear.com/articles/cheaplife_100800.html
To read Readers' Reviews of the book - visit HERE:
http://barnesandnoble.bfast.com/booklink/click?sourceid=481444&ISBN=802385173X
Read Sample Chapters here:
http://samvak.tripod.com/atrpdf.zip
View the Entire Book here:
http://www.realread.com/open-demo/browse.cgi?book=!802385173X
Download my Topical Encylopedia of Economics and Economies in
Transition HERE:
http://info.babylon.com/cgi-bin/template.cgi?id=2880
(Free Babylon browser HERE: http://www.babylon.com)
Download
more than 100 study modules - The economies, history, cultures
and societies
of countries in transition - HERE:
http://www.blackboard.com/courses/CEEandBalkan/
ECONOMIES IN
TRANSITION
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I maintain an extensive
website regarding macroeconomics, microeconomics, finance, business and
the economies of countries in transition:
http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html
This is a series of articles written and published in 1996 - to
the present in dozens of periodicals throughout the world - see list
below.
(In United Press International - UPI, in Macedonia's leading
newspapers, in the Russian daily "Izvestia", in the Egyptian weekly "The
Middle East Times", in the Russian weekly "Argumenti i Fakti", in the
Czech monthly "The New Presence", in the "Central Europe
Review"
http://www.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html
and in many other periodicals).
I would appreciate if
you could include it in your list of links.
Additionally, feel free
to re-print any of the articles with the appropriate credit and
link-back.
Download my Topical Encylopedia of Economics and
Economies in Transition HERE:
http://info.babylon.com/cgi-bin/template.cgi?id=2880
http://samvak.tripod.com/economics.zip
(Free Babylon browser HERE: http://www.babylon.com
)
Download more than 100 study modules - The economies, history,
cultures and societies of countries in transition - HERE:
http://www.blackboard.com/courses/CEEandBalkan/
MORE about the Web Site
Ostensibly, the articles deal
with the Macedonian, Russian, or Czech economy and politics - and, they
do.
Yet, these economic and political experiences really serve as
an ideal laboratory - a prism through which micro-and macro-economic
issues can be (and are) studied.
Consider Macedonia, for instance.
It was established in 1991. It had to withstand an embargo (a siege,
actually), a collapse of its banking system, a collapse of a series of
pyramid savings schemes, an acute contraction of its GDP and its
industrial production, a yawning balance of payments deficit, dangerously
high unemployment, inter-ethnic tensions - and this is a partial
list.
However painful in human terms, this has transformed
Macedonia into a fascinating case study in the workings of the economic
mind, of economic principles and theories.
This series of articles
(constantly expanded) explores this case study in depth as well as issues
related to other Balkan countries and the Russian and the Czech
economies.
I tried to remember the humans behind the figures and
the tragedies behind the numbers.
Still, the articles together make
up for an introduction to the science of Economy - more than to a
practical, "how to", type of publication.
Again, I would appreciate
if you could include it in your list of links.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND DIGITAL
CONTENT |
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included!
My web site contains essays and articles dedicated to
information technology, new media, business on the web, digital content,
the philosophy of information technology, and the digital
divide.
Trendsiters - trend setting digital content web sites:
My author archive in InternetContent.net:
Digital Content on the Web Study Modules -
Other essays:
I would appreciate if you could visit them and to add them to your
links.
Additionally, feel free to re-print or mirror any of the
material subject to appropriate credit and link-back.
PHILOSOPHY |
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The "Philosophical Musings" site contains more than 150 essays about
various topics in current philosophy.
The main emphases are on:
- The philosophy of science and technology
(mainly of twentieth century physics and biology, and the
Internet)
- The cognitive sciences (the mind, artificial intelligence, automata,
etc.)
- Cultural studies (Lasch, Althusser, etc.)
- Aesthetics, art and literature
- The philosophy of economics (distributive justice, market mechanisms,
etc.)
- The philosophy of psychology
- Ethics
An Encyclopedia of topics in modern and current philosophy is available
here:
Issues in Current Philosophy downloadable Study Modules:
And three free downloadable philosophy online tutorials:
I would appreciate if you could visit them and to add them to your
links.
Additionally, feel free to re-print or mirror any of the material
subject to appropriate credit and link-back.
FILM REVIEWS
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Movie Reviews here:
These five movies deal with moral and ethical dilemmas. "The Matrix" -
with the nature of reality, "Titanic" - tackles the moral obligation versus
self-preservation and "The Truman Show" - tackles the relationship between
God and us, humans. "The Talented Mr. Ripley" deals with the thin line between
pathological narcissism and self-promotion, ambition and envy, love and
obsession. "Being John Malkovich" deals with this question (among others): are
we the owners of our brains?
Part of the "Philosophical Essays and Musings" web site here:
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