0:02 my name is s d and I'm the author of
0:04 malignant self-love narcissism
0:08 Revision in 1995 when I coined the
0:11 phrase narcissistic abuse I also came up
0:15 with two coping
0:17 strategies if you wanted to get rid of
0:20 your narcissist I suggested no
0:24 contact this strategy is tackled in
0:27 another video on my channel the the
0:30 other strategy I developed I dubbed
0:34 background
0:35 noise if you insist to stay with the
0:38 narcissist if you have no choice if you
0:41 have common children if there are
0:43 Financial complications if for some
0:46 reason there is no way for you to exit
0:50 the toxic remit and Charmed circle of
0:53 the narcissist then I suggested to adopt
0:55 a strategy called background noise
1:00 as background noise you ask the
1:02 narcissist no questions because if you
1:05 ask the narcissist a question it means
1:07 you doubt him it means you undermine his
1:10 authority it means that you may have
1:12 thought of something that he had omitted
1:15 to think of it means that potentially
1:18 you're more clever than him you see
1:21 things
1:22 differently these are all narcissistic
1:25 injury so ask the narcissist no
1:28 questions
1:30 second principle of background noise
1:32 never criticize The Narcissist never
1:35 disagree with the
1:37 narcissist the narcissist is always
1:40 right the narcissist is omnicient he
1:43 knows everything there is to know even
1:46 if he doesn't know
1:47 it the third principle of background
1:50 noise is
1:52 to confine your
1:55 responses to the content of the question
2:00 the query or the prompt by The
2:03 Narcissist first of all never initiate a
2:07 conversation only when
2:10 addressed
2:12 talk so when you are addressed by The
2:14 Narcissist when you ask you a question
2:15 or approach as a subject limit your
2:19 responses and reactions to the subject
2:22 matter raised by The Narcissist do not
2:24 expand the conversation do not introduce
2:27 new topics or new issues
2:31 do not initiate or Embark upon tangents
2:36 which The Narcissist didn't think
2:39 of always be there as an echo always
2:45 react never
2:49 proact
2:52 so if you look at these three principles
2:55 never ask questions never criticize and
2:57 disagree and never ever
3:00 expand the topic of conversation beyond
3:03 the limitations and boundaries set by
3:05 The Narcissist in his initial
3:07 address you see that background noise is
3:11 a very simple uh technique a very simple
3:14 strategy simply never
3:17 initiate never be
3:19 proactive always
3:22 react
3:24 always be
3:26 compliant or even to some extent this OB
3:30 Serv it always be an
3:33 echo
3:35 always record what the narcissist
3:39 says and then play it back to him when
3:42 he wants to hear it as most narcissists
3:45 would say had I wanted your opinion I
3:48 would have given it to
3:57 you my name is Sak and I'm the author of
4:01 malignant self-love narcissism
4:05 revisit all told there are three ways to
4:08 manipulate the
4:09 narcissist you can withhold narcissistic
4:12 Supply from him until he comes head in
4:15 hand begging for more and then you can
4:19 name your price and dictate the
4:22 terms a second technique is to
4:25 constitute yourself as a reliable source
4:27 of high grade supply and thereby Foster
4:31 in the narcissist dependence and
4:34 adherence to your minous needs and
4:37 wishes you would be amazed how attentive
4:40 The Narcissist can be to a good source
4:43 of narcissistic
4:44 Supply and then there's the third
4:46 technique to take active part in
4:49 buttressing and upholding The Narcissist
4:51 grandio fantasies to collude in a shared
4:55 psychosis with him and thus render him
4:58 amable to your wishes and priorities as
5:01 long as they seamlessly conform to his
5:04 delusional
5:06 narrative right the irony is that
5:09 narcissists who consider themselves
5:11 worldly Discerning knowledgeable shrewd
5:15 cunning iridite and astute well these
5:18 exact narcissists are actually more
5:20 gullible than the average person this is
5:23 because narcissists are fake their self
5:27 is false their life is a
5:30 confabulation their reality test is long
5:33 done narcissists live in a fantasy land
5:36 all their own in which they are the
5:38 center of the universe they are admired
5:41 feared held in awe and respected for
5:44 their omnipotence and
5:47 omns in short narcissists are prone to
5:50 magical thinking they hold themselves
5:52 immune to the consequences of their
5:54 actions or in action therefore they
5:57 consider themselves to be Beyond
5:59 punishment and the laws of man
6:01 narcissists are easily persuaded to
6:04 assume unreasonable risks and to expect
6:08 miracles to happen they often find
6:11 themselves on the receiving end of
6:13 investment scans for example again
6:17 because they are risk-prone
6:20 Reckless narcissists feel entitled
6:24 entitled to everything money power
6:27 honors even though these are
6:29 commensurate with their accomplishments
6:31 or
6:32 toil The World God the nation Society or
6:37 their families co-workers
6:40 employers even neighbors owe them a
6:43 trouble-free
6:45 exalted luxurious existence they are
6:49 rudely shocked when they are penalized
6:51 for their misconduct or when their
6:54 fantasies remain just that
6:58 fantasies the nist believes that he is
7:01 destined to Greatness or at least the
7:04 easy life he wakes up every morning
7:08 fully ready for a fortuitous Stroke of
7:12 Luck that explains the narcissist
7:14 Reckless behaviors and and his lazed
7:17 lack of
7:18 self-discipline it also explained why
7:21 the narcissist is so easily
7:23 duped by playing on the narcissist
7:25 grandiosity and paranoia it is possible
7:28 to deceive and manipulate at the
7:29 narcissist
7:31 effortlessly just offer The Narcissist
7:33 narcissistic Supply admiration
7:36 affirmation agulation and he is all
7:39 yours hard on the narcissist
7:42 insecurities and on his persecutory
7:45 delusions and is likely to trust only
7:48 you and cling only to you for their life
7:52 both paranoia and grandiosity impair The
7:55 Narcissist reality test and engender
7:59 cognitive deficits paranoia and
8:02 grandiosity lead to the erection of
8:04 complex and wasteful defenses against
8:08 usually non-existent threats and
8:11 enemies narcissists attract abuse they
8:15 are hay exploitative demanding
8:18 insensitive and
8:20 quarrelsome narcissist tend to draw
8:23 orium and provoke anger and even hatred
8:27 solely lacking in interpers
8:29 skills devoid of empathy and steeped in
8:33 irksome grandio fantasies narcissists
8:36 invariably fail to mitigate the
8:38 irritation and Revolt that they induce
8:41 in
8:42 others successful narcissists are
8:44 frequently targeted by stalkers and
8:47 erotomania usually mentally ill people
8:50 who develop a fixation of a sexual or
8:53 emotional nature on the narcissist when
8:56 inevitably rebuffed by The Narcissist
8:58 these people become vindictive and in
9:00 rare cases even
9:02 violent less prominent narcissist less
9:05 successful ones end up sharing life with
9:08 codependence and with inverted
9:11 narcissist The Narcissist situation is
9:13 exacerbated by the fact that often The
9:16 Narcissist himself is an abuser like the
9:19 boy who cried wolf people do not believe
9:22 that the perpetrator of egregious Deeds
9:25 can himself fall prey to maltreatment
9:28 people tend to to ignore and discard The
9:31 Narcissist cries for H they disbelieve
9:34 his
9:35 protestations they assume that he is
9:38 guilty until proven innocent not the
9:40 other way
9:43 around so how does an narcissis react
9:46 when he finds himself on the receiving
9:48 end of abuse well like all other
9:51 victims he is traumatized he goes
9:54 through the phases of denial
9:56 helplessness rage depression and finally
10:00 acceptance but the narcissist reactions
10:03 are Amplified by his shattered sense of
10:06 omnipotence abuse breeds humiliation and
10:11 humiliation breeds helplessness and to
10:14 The Narcissist helplessness is's a novel
10:16 experience hither to he considered
10:19 himself all powerful Godlike abuse
10:22 reminds him that he is also to human and
10:27 sometimes less than human
10:30 the narcissistic defense mechanisms and
10:32 their behavioral manifestations diffuse
10:35 rage idealization and evaluation
10:39 exploitation these defense mechanisms
10:42 are useless when confronted with a
10:44 determin vindictive or delusional
10:48 stalker that the narcissist is flat is
10:51 flattered by the attention that he
10:53 receives from the abuser or the stalker
10:56 renders him even more vulnerable to the
10:58 forers man
11:00 ation nor can the narcissist come to
11:02 terms with his need for help he cannot
11:06 acknowledge that wrongful behavior on
11:08 his part may have contributed and
11:11 precipitated somehow the
11:15 situation The Narcissist self-image is
11:18 infallible Mighty all knowing this
11:22 self-image as him as him being far
11:25 superior to others this exact self-image
11:28 won't let him admit to any shortfalls
11:31 any mistakes any needs even need for
11:35 advice or for
11:37 help narcissist consider considers
11:40 himself self-contained
11:43 self-sufficient as the abuse progresses
11:46 The Narcissist feels increasingly
11:48 cornered his conflicting emotional needs
11:52 to preserve the Integrity of his grandio
11:54 false self even as he seeks much needed
11:57 support well this these conflicting
11:59 needs place an unbearable strain on the
12:03 precarious balance of his immature and
12:06 disorganized
12:07 personality the compensation is the
12:11 disintegration of the narcissist defense
12:13 mechanisms it leads to acting out temper
12:18 tantrums outbursts loss of control and
12:21 if the abuse is protracted it leads to
12:25 withdrawal and even in extreme cases to
12:28 psychotic micro
12:30 epodes abusive acts in themselves are
12:33 rarely dangerous not so the reactions to
12:37 abuse above all the overwhelming sense
12:41 of violation and
12:45 humiliation so
12:47 narcissists are actually classic victims
12:50 of abuse in many cases yet it does not
12:54 provoke in them self-awareness let alone
12:58 remorse or or empathy of which they are
13:00 largely
13:01 incapable it is wasted on them yes even
13:06 abuse is wasted on the
13:17 narcissist and now I'm inviting you to a
13:21 tour of the narcissist mind as we tour
13:24 The Narcissist mind you will understand
13:27 why each of these techniques is working
13:30 so this is actually the second part of
13:32 the lecture is to explain to you why
13:34 these techniques are working and to
13:36 allow you with this deeper understanding
13:39 to use these techniques more uh
13:43 effectively the reason the narcissist is
13:45 very
13:46 effective at manipulating you
13:49 controlling you and inducing in you
13:52 emotions and moods is because exactly
13:55 like you the narcissist is a victim
13:59 narcissist narcissism is a posttraumatic
14:03 condition The Narcissist has been the
14:06 victim usually of his
14:09 parents as a victim The Narcissist chose
14:13 a specific a highly specific solution
14:16 but the fact that the narcissist chose a
14:19 specific solution does not mean that the
14:22 narcissist is not a victim he is as much
14:26 a victim as you are the reason the
14:28 narcissist victimizes you is that he
14:31 wants
14:32 company as long as you are not
14:36 victimized you are alien to The
14:38 Narcissist narcissist wants to feel at
14:40 home among his own kind he wants to be
14:44 among victims because he's a victim so
14:47 he converts and transforms everyone
14:51 everyone around him into a victim simply
14:55 to feel at home and of course the the
14:59 clinical concept is Comfort Zone The
15:02 Narcissist comfort zone is among victims
15:05 The Narcissist will victimize you never
15:08 mind what you do never mind what you do
15:11 not do never mind how often you do or do
15:15 not do what you do or do not do never
15:18 mind if you are cuz you don't even have
15:21 to be for the narcissist to victimize
15:24 you and here's the worst part when the
15:26 narcissist converts you to an image of
15:30 himself he's doing you a favor because
15:33 he is superior he is Godlike he is
15:36 bringing you up to his level what does
15:39 it say in Genesis the first chapter of
15:41 Genesis in the Bible God created men in
15:44 his own image The Narcissist creates you
15:48 in his own image he is furious at your
15:51 lack of gratitude here is investing in
15:56 inferior you he's very close to God
15:59 sometimes they change places and here he
16:02 is having chosen
16:05 you having selected you he could have
16:08 chosen anyone but he chose you and here
16:12 he is molding you shaping you like
16:15 pigmon and galala and how do you react
16:18 you're unhappy you claim to be abused
16:21 and victimized you're too stupid to
16:23 realize the enormous gift you are
16:25 receiving you must understand this the
16:28 narcissist is very angry at you all the
16:31 time either because you are too
16:34 to appreciate his gifts which is usually
16:37 the case
16:39 or if you are intelligent you are too
16:42 ungrateful The Narcissist partner is a
16:44 in a binary State WR out or
16:48 ungrateful and usually ungrateful WR
16:54 out and so the
16:57 narcissist says to himself
17:00 to mold my partner I must resort to
17:04 extreme and radical measures Americans
17:06 call it tough love they tried it in Iraq
17:10 this is tough love it's for your own
17:11 good you will thank me one day if you
17:17 survive but there is a
17:22 problem
17:25 and now I'm going to take you into
17:29 the soul the psyche and the mind of the
17:32 [Music]
17:34 narcissist there was a sociologist by
17:36 the name of
17:38 giddens and in the 1990s giddens came
17:41 with a concept called ontological in
17:43 insecurity ontological insecurity the
17:47 narcissist is in a state of ontological
17:50 insecurity what is ontological
17:52 insecurity it's when you don't feel
17:56 continuous when you don't feel the that
17:59 your
18:00 yesterday or your today is a
18:02 continuation of yesterday and your
18:03 tomorrow will be continuation of today
18:05 obviously if there is no continuity it
18:09 is impossible to develop an
18:12 identity the narcissist is possibly the
18:16 only form of human who has no core no
18:21 identity no
18:24 Kel in 1995 I proposed that narcis
18:28 narcissism
18:29 is a form of multiple personality
18:31 disorder because the narcissist has two
18:34 selves true self which is a traumatized
18:38 very very young child who is paralyzed
18:41 by fear and hurt so this child is
18:45 dysfunctional and has no effect on the
18:48 psychodynamics of the narcissist and
18:50 there is the false self which is Godlike
18:52 we'll come to it a bit later so two s
18:55 yes true and false technically it's
18:58 multiple personality disorder because
19:00 it's a person with two personalities but
19:02 I I was wrong it's the second time I
19:05 admit I admit something today I don't
19:08 know what's happening to me I was I was
19:10 wrong because in multiple personality
19:16 known today as dissociative identity
19:18 disorder in dissociative identity
19:21 disorder there is
19:24 continuity the person with multiple
19:26 personalities has many personalities
19:30 but each of these
19:32 personalities has Perfect Memory and
19:36 perfect identity and each of these
19:38 personalities has total continuity so if
19:43 someone with multiple personality has
19:45 six personalities and one of these
19:47 personalities is Sam the Sam comes out
19:51 talks talks to the therapist and
19:54 then four months later Sam comes out
19:57 again Sam will remember the conversation
20:01 with the therapist the six personalities
20:04 have total continuity total memory total
20:08 identity not the
20:11 narcissist narcissists
20:13 forget or have no access to almost
20:18 80%
20:21 80% at least according to my studies
20:24 80% of their memories
20:28 every
20:30 minute you are confronted with a new
20:33 person new narcissist which has nothing
20:37 to do with a person a minute before
20:41 narcissist
20:44 suffer narcissist suffer from something
20:47 called dissociation
20:50 dissociation is breaks in memory missing
20:53 time so the narcissist
20:56 misses seconds milliseconds micros
21:00 seconds but misses all the time he
21:02 dissociates he dissociates all the time
21:05 he is not
21:06 continuous how to live like that what
21:09 the narcissist does is called in
21:11 clinical terms
21:13 confabulation The Narcissist The
21:15 Narcissist invents stories to cover the
21:20 missing parts The Narcissist says to
21:22 himself I remember picking the golf club
21:26 and I remember the ball going to the to
21:28 the
21:29 but I don't remember anything in between
21:31 so let's see probably probably it's
21:37 logical that I hit the ball with the
21:40 golf club probably it's logical it makes
21:44 sense it's plausible but I do not
21:48 remember it and this is called
21:50 confabulation very often The Narcissist
21:53 gets the confabulation wrong so people
21:56 think he's lying oh God lighting he is
22:00 not he's confabulating here's your
22:03 problem as victims or Partners the
22:06 narcissist is is like the river of
22:09 heraclitus you know pant you cannot
22:12 enter the same river twice you cannot
22:15 talk to the same narcissist twice you do
22:18 not have a relationship with the same
22:19 person you do not communicate with the
22:22 same human being not only there is no
22:24 one there there's nobody there but the
22:28 empty itself is fragmented and fractured
22:31 to Pieces it's like an empty beautiful
22:35 empty palace with no inhabitants and the
22:37 walls themselves are cracked and falling
22:41 down partners of
22:43 narcissist cannot digest this there are
22:46 two things that victims of narcissist
22:49 cannot accept and cannot digest one The
22:52 Narcissist does not exist there is
22:55 nobody home there is no
22:59 person
23:01 there I
23:03 mean probably many of you know that I'm
23:05 a narcissist yes I've been diagnosed
23:07 with narcissistic personality disorder
23:10 twice over 15 years it's pretty safe I'm
23:13 one so you look at me here I am joking
23:16 talking drinking coffee drinking water
23:19 smiling at
23:21 Barbara what am I missing some of you
23:24 may think that I'm reasonably okay
23:26 looking those with my Opia
23:32 so it is impossible impossible for you
23:35 to to
23:37 grasp that there is nobody here behind
23:41 this lecton trust me on this there is
23:44 nobody here you're experiencing Mass
23:46 delusion we will come to it this
23:49 phenomenon is known as The Uncanny
23:50 Valley the second thing the second thing
23:53 that victims or intimate partners of
23:55 narcissist find difficult to accept that
23:58 to The Narcissist they are not special
24:02 they are Commodities as interchangeable
24:04 as grains of rice the
24:06 narcissist is with you married to you
24:10 has children with you had had
24:13 experiences with you told you that he
24:15 loves you a million times how many times
24:17 you made love he cried intimacy the
24:20 minute you stop functioning he replaces
24:24 you because you are a commodity The
24:26 Narcissist loves his wife and he also
24:29 loves rice and very often he cannot tell
24:31 the
24:32 difference victims find it
24:35 shattering because their individuality
24:38 is
24:39 challenged so this is the first thing
24:41 ontological insecurity dissociation
24:44 confabulation nobody home no one there
24:47 sorry before I go to the second thing
24:51 so stop communicating so hard you cannot
24:55 negotiate with a non- entity you your
24:58 agreements mean nothing because no one
25:00 signed them you are talking to him you
25:03 are talking to yourself it's a ghost
25:06 less than a ghost it's a it's a
25:08 pretension it's a it's a piece of
25:10 fiction the false self is a piece of
25:12 fiction it's a bad movie it's a
25:16 script why do I resemble a human being
25:19 so well how do I give this how do I give
25:22 this almost perfect rendition of a human
25:25 being I observed many of you for a long
25:28 time time I have 190 IQ I used it you
25:32 not complex you have very basic life
25:35 forms you're easy to manipulate because
25:39 you have three or four basic modes your
25:42 user manual is pretty
25:45 rudimentary so you know it's not too
25:49 difficult to deceive you into believing
25:50 that I'm human it helps that I'm made of
25:53 carbon like the next generation of
25:56 artificial intelligence when the fin
25:58 Androids hit the earth they will be made
26:01 of carbon they will have Superior
26:03 cognitive skills I I hope there there
26:05 will be more handsome than me but they
26:07 will be me I am
26:10 it I am this thing I am in many respects
26:14 your future I think this is the horror
26:18 at the core of narcissism this is why
26:21 narcissism had become a global
26:22 phenomenon from Nepal to Australia and
26:25 from Egypt to to Canada there is a
26:28 Universal resonance because I think
26:31 you
26:33 recognize that this life form
26:38 narcissist probably is the future I
26:42 didn't say that uh Japanese roboticist
26:45 said it in 1970
26:48 masahi um said as that when robots
26:54 become indistinguishable from people
26:56 people will become very
26:58 frightened phobic and anxious and he
27:03 called it uncanny valley everyone feels
27:07 uncomfortable around the narcissist we
27:10 have proved it in studies people don't
27:12 know that they are with narcissist in
27:13 the same room and they will react with
27:15 extreme anxiety and discomfort why me
27:20 they feel that something is missing
27:22 something is off key something is
27:24 imitated not real something is fake I'm
27:27 telling you all these things
27:29 for you to
27:31 accept that it is not
27:34 possible to have a meaningful emotional
27:38 life with the narcissist and no amount
27:40 of manipulation will change
27:43 this the next thing you need to
27:45 understand about a narcissist is that
27:47 narcissists like other like people with
27:50 other mental health problems they are
27:52 capable capable of what we call
27:54 paradoxical
27:55 thinking um
27:58 the first person to describe paradoxical
28:00 thinking first psychologist was baton he
28:03 called it double bind and then Lang l l
28:07 was a famous L was a famous British
28:10 psychotherapist Audi Ling and he called
28:13 it the incomplete not not paradoxical
28:17 thinking is simply the
28:19 ability to have at the same time
28:23 contradictory thoughts and contradictory
28:26 beliefs you can't do that you cannot
28:29 think at the same time wow this guy is
28:33 evil and this guy is wonderful you
28:35 cannot think at the same time I believe
28:37 the world is good and the world is is
28:39 horrible you cannot have conflicting
28:41 cognitions and conflicting values and
28:43 beliefs this creates in you something
28:45 called dissonance and you solve the
28:47 dissonance by getting rid of one of the
28:52 horns one of the sides one of the
28:54 thoughts not so the narcissist
28:57 narcissist can at the same time at the
29:00 same moment have conflicting thoughts
29:03 contradictory thoughts contradictory
29:07 emotions contradictory values and
29:10 contradictory
29:11 beliefs so who are you talking to when
29:15 you communicate with the narcissist and
29:18 when you manipulate the narcissist who
29:21 are you
29:22 manipulating he can say at 3:00 in the
29:27 afternoon
29:28 Barbara is wonderful and at
29:31 3:15 Barbara sucks he changes his views
29:36 his commitments his promises his
29:38 contracts his Everything Changes
29:41 constantly and dramatically
29:44 because he has paradoxical thinking why
29:47 does he have paradoxical thinking
29:49 because he doesn't exist the essence of
29:52 existence is the
29:54 stability of cognitions values and so on
29:58 and these These are knowns as
30:01 shemas schemes so everyone has shemas
30:04 amalgams collections collections of
30:07 emotions cognitions beliefs values and
30:11 they are stable and they're solid under
30:13 stress they can break down but still
30:15 normally they're very stable it makes
30:18 all of you more or less predictable
30:21 reliable and of course it allows Society
30:24 to function narcissists and Psychopaths
30:26 by the way have not have none of this
30:28 they go with the flow and they react to
30:32 internal
30:33 Dynamics by changing themselves so
30:36 completely that they are utterly new it
30:39 is utterly
30:42 disorienting it's like shapes shifting
30:44 you know in science fiction movies shape
30:46 shifting it's Chima
30:49 chimerical it's and it's very very
30:52 disorienting and sometimes frightening
30:54 and always infuriating intimate partners
30:57 and victims of is
30:59 spend huge amounts of time trying to
31:03 nail down the jelly but yesterday you
31:06 said this but uh but you promised this
31:09 but didn't we
31:10 agree total waste of
31:13 time the third thing you need to know
31:15 about narcissist The Narcissist starts
31:20 as a reflection it's the only human
31:23 being that starts its conscious
31:27 existence
31:28 as a reflection The Narcissist
31:31 constructs his sense of self the false
31:35 self by reflecting himself from other
31:38 people healthy people healthy people
31:41 have a stable core they get input from
31:45 other people and they reject most of it
31:47 and they reject most of this input for
31:49 good reason this stability of the
31:52 core remains for Life regulation of
31:56 sense of selfworth reg regulation of
31:58 moods regulation of emotions it all
32:01 comes from inside if you find yourself
32:05 on a lonely alone on an island nothing
32:09 will happen to you as far as your sense
32:12 of self even alone on an island you
32:15 would still feel that you are you not so
32:19 the narcissist the narcissist is the
32:23 totality of the
32:25 reflections of other people The
32:28 Narcissist mind is like a hive of bees
32:31 your mind is like a surface
32:34 uninterrupted surface everything fits in
32:37 what doesn't fit in you discard after 20
32:39 years 30 years you are absolutely smooth
32:44 and seamless The Narcissist mind is like
32:47 a hive of bees with hexagons millions of
32:51 hexagons and to each hexagon The
32:54 Narcissist
32:55 collects his reflection in her eye eyes
32:58 in her eyes in his eyes in his eyes in
33:00 her eyes collects collects millions of
33:03 Reflections and then processes these
33:06 Reflections puts them in the
33:08 hexagons and what happens when there are
33:10 no Reflections narcissist feels when he
33:13 is not surrounded by people who reflect
33:15 him the narcissist feels that he does
33:17 not exist you remember the technique of
33:21 withholding this is connected to this if
33:24 you withhold you don't reflect if you
33:26 don't reflect you threaten the
33:27 narcissist ex very existence in the
33:30 relationship with a
33:32 narcissist you have 100% of the power
33:36 The Narcissist has zero The Genius of
33:39 the
33:40 narcissist is to convince you that he
33:43 has 100% of the power n and you have
33:49 zero The Narcissist does have empathy
33:53 it's called cold empathy cold empathy is
33:56 empathy but with without emotions it's
33:59 goal
34:00 oriented so if I see someone crying I
34:03 would
34:05 recognize that she is
34:07 sad I would recognize this she is sad so
34:11 I do have empathy I have cognitive
34:14 empathy yes but you will say wow she
34:20 said I remember being said it's a bad
34:24 feeling can I do something for her
34:26 emotional res resonance she said I
34:30 remember being
34:31 sad it's a bad feeling I want to help
34:35 the narcissist says or the psychopath
34:38 she is
34:39 sad I know what it means to be sad not
34:44 from personal experience but I know I
34:47 read in books I observed I know what it
34:50 means to be said
34:53 cognitively now if I play my cards right
34:57 probably at the end of the night I can
34:58 have sex with her because she is broken
35:01 she's
35:02 vulnerable her defenses are down it's an
35:06 opportunity called
35:09 empathy is empathy used to find your
35:15 vulnerabilities and then use these
35:18 vulnerabilities to obtain goals
35:20 narcissistic Supply sex money power
35:24 contacts whatever so never never ever
35:29 show The
35:30 Narcissist any emotion starve starve the
35:35 narcissist called empathy of information
35:37 do not provide information to the
35:39 narcissist called empathy you want to
35:42 cry there's always the toilet you're
35:45 happy keep it to yourself it's like the
35:48 Miranda
35:49 warning any emotion you show can and
35:53 will be used against
35:55 you and this is called empathy
35:58 similarly never ever offer The
36:01 Narcissist help or advice it's extremely
36:05 difficult many of you love The
36:06 Narcissist it's a different lecture
36:08 what's wrong with
36:10 you but many of you do and when you love
36:14 someone I heard you want you want to
36:18 help you want to prevent bad happen
36:20 things from happening to that person you
36:22 want to guide the person in the right
36:24 direction if you know the right
36:25 direction or you just want to hold hold
36:28 the person these are critical mistakes
36:30 with the narcis I repeat never ever
36:33 offer help advice guidance or holding
36:39 for two reasons one The Narcissist will
36:43 interpret your behavior as weakness as
36:47 vulnerability something he can leverage
36:50 something he can use to optain goals in
36:52 the future will begin to fake the need
36:55 for help second thing
36:58 if you offer The Narcissist help and
37:01 advice he will think that you are
37:03 humiliating him it's narcissistic injury
37:06 The Narcissist doesn't need help from
37:08 you narcissist doesn't need help from
37:11 anyone he's above help he's omnipotent
37:14 he's all
37:15 powerful naist doesn't need advice from
37:19 you he's omniscient he knows everything
37:22 a narcissist will drive his car for 6
37:24 hours before his wife will ask someone
37:27 one for help because they cannot find
37:30 the place if you're offering the
37:32 narcissist advice or help you are
37:34 telling you are saying to The Narcissist
37:37 you are in need of advice and help I
37:41 have something you don't have for
37:44 example I have information you don't
37:45 have narcist will react very badly to
37:47 this will never forgive you for offering
37:50 help and advice you well know by now
37:53 it's something that I described in in
37:56 the mid90s is a cycle of idealization
38:01 devaluation discard and
38:04 replacement there is a technique the
38:08 there is a
38:09 technique uh that makes use of this
38:13 cycle The Narcissist first idealizes
38:17 you then the narcissist devalues you
38:20 then the narcissist discards you and
38:23 then the narcissist replaces you with
38:24 someone else to manipulate the narcissis
38:28 you reverse the cycle reverse it
38:32 remember idealize the value discard
38:35 replace the
38:37 technique is
38:40 replace replace discard devalue
38:45 idealize replace the narcissist with
38:47 someone visibly
38:49 triangulate then discard him not only
38:52 triangulate with someone but also
38:54 discard the narcissis as you discard him
38:58 devalue
38:59 him I don't know you're not a man
39:02 example and
39:04 finally idealize him that's it he's
39:07 yours so it's reverse of the
39:09 cycle simply reverse the cycle now many
39:13 many women came to this Behavior
39:17 intuitively the maximum effect Maximum
39:20 Impact if it is all done in one sitting
39:23 in one
39:24 situation happened to me recently
39:28 the next thing you you should know about
39:30 the so as you see I'm describing the
39:32 world of the narcissist and from each
39:35 aspect of the narcissist personality I'm
39:37 giving you some technique or some
39:40 approach that might work the narcissist
39:42 is a victim of abuse that's why he
39:44 became a narcissist as a child The
39:47 Narcissist was terrified of pain of hurt
39:51 of unpredictability sorry so he created
39:54 the false
39:55 self naris don't have
39:59 relationships they have power plays it's
40:02 all about power all of it is
40:06 establishing a balance of Terror a
40:09 matrix of power The Narcissist from the
40:12 very beginning after the love bombing
40:15 phase by the way the love bombing phase
40:19 is not telling
40:20 you it's not about telling you that the
40:23 narcissist needs you or it's about
40:26 telling you how unique you are the
40:28 narcissist is trying in the love bombing
40:31 phase to convert you into narcissist to
40:35 taste how it feels to get narcissistic
40:38 Supply so the love bombing phase is
40:42 simply to give you the taste of this
40:45 drug so that you become junkies as well
40:49 but the minute The Narcissist acquires
40:51 you the minute The Narcissist Hoovers
40:53 you the minute you belong to the
40:56 narcissist in his mind
40:59 The Narcissist message to you is I don't
41:02 need you there is nothing you have that
41:05 I want or that I need or that I cannot
41:09 get anywhere else don't think you have
41:11 any power over me because you don't you
41:14 do not have power over me and I can dump
41:16 you tomorrow and find someone else in
41:18 minutes this is precisely the essence of
41:20 relationships with narcissist in the
41:23 first phase The Narcissist tells you how
41:26 special you are in the second phase The
41:29 Narcissist tell you tells you how not
41:31 special you are you're
41:34 amazing you're
41:36 unique you are the love of my life I
41:39 never had this this experience with
41:42 anyone I never felt so deeply you know
41:45 what I never felt at all you are the
41:47 first and only the things you do to
41:51 me
41:53 and this is the love bombing phase and
41:56 makes you feel very very unique one in
42:00 the world there's only one you you can
42:03 offer nothing I need and what you offer
42:06 I don't need if I'm a cerebral
42:08 narcissist I'm above sex sex is foret
42:10 out if I'm any kind of narcissist I'm
42:13 above emotions love is for stupid people
42:16 weak people and if it's not you then
42:19 someone else you should be honored and
42:21 grateful that I've introduced you into
42:23 my exciting adventurous life it is this
42:27 pendulum of conflicting
42:29 messages that totally unsettles and
42:32 destabilize the victim The Narcissist
42:35 fully expects to lose you he already
42:37 behaves as though he had lost you you're
42:40 always temporary even if you're 30 years
42:42 together you're still temporary narcist
42:44 have something called anticipatory loss
42:47 anxiety from very early age narcissist
42:50 have something called object in
42:52 constancy or object
42:55 impermanence again for those of you who
42:57 are in Psychology object in object
43:00 impermanence is a term coined by Jean P
43:03 child psychologist in the late 60s an
43:07 object in constancy is a term coined by
43:10 Margaret
43:11 Mara another child another she was not
43:14 psychologist actually she was a doctor
43:15 but expert on child psychology you
43:19 know when a baby at a very early age
43:23 before the first year of Life between 5
43:26 months and in one year when mother
43:28 leaves the room the baby starts to cry
43:32 because out of sight out of existence if
43:36 the baby doesn't see mother mother stops
43:38 to
43:39 exist gradually the child creates a
43:44 representation of mother inside his mind
43:48 when mother is in the room the child
43:51 interacts with mother when mother is
43:54 outside the room the child's in the
43:57 child interacts with the representation
43:59 of mother this representation is known
44:02 as IMO
44:04 so with a
44:07 narcissist there there is a problem at
44:09 this phase and what happens is the
44:13 narcissist interacts only with the
44:16 representation can you think why why
44:19 would the narcissist prefer to interact
44:21 with the representation and not with you
44:23 I gave you the clue I gave you the
44:25 answer actually
44:27 if I am afraid to lose
44:30 you I would prefer to interact not with
44:34 you but with your
44:37 representation you can always walk away
44:39 out of my life I don't control what you
44:42 do and what you may do but I have full
44:46 control over the representation inside
44:49 my mind so the minute The Narcissist
44:52 sees you and decides that you are
44:55 potentially a good source
44:57 Supply a shocking process takes place
45:00 and you're not even aware of it the
45:02 narcissist snapshots you takes a
45:05 snapshot with his mental
45:07 camera he meets
45:10 someone he thinks she can supply provide
45:13 Supply at that second he takes a
45:16 snapshot from that
45:19 second I want you to understand this
45:21 it's extremely difficult to believe I
45:24 know from that second
45:28 all the time the narcissist interacts
45:31 never ever with you always with a
45:36 snapshot in a minute you will understand
45:39 why the narcissist has
45:43 has at some point to devalue you
45:47 although in many cases the cycle repeats
45:51 itself many times but a such a cycle
45:54 must exist
45:57 The Narcissist has you and a
46:03 snapshot but you are not the
46:06 snapshot you have your own life you
46:08 develop you study you travel you have
46:11 lovers maybe don't tell anyone I mean
46:14 things happen to you you initiate things
46:16 you are in other words Dynamic the
46:19 snapshot is static you start you start
46:24 from the same position overlapping and
46:27 then what happens you move away snapshot
46:30 is here and you're
46:32 here but the narcissist is emotionally
46:36 invested in the
46:37 snapshot controls the snapshot talks to
46:41 the
46:42 snapshot
46:43 so you gradually become less and less
46:48 relevant as you diverge from the
46:51 snapshot at some
46:53 point you become a threat the
46:56 differences between you and the snapshot
46:58 are so
46:59 enormous that even the narcissist cannot
47:03 deceive himself that the snapshot is
47:06 accurate at some
47:08 point you challenge the
47:12 snapshot you all know that point you've
47:15 all gone through it because the
47:17 narcissist starts saying things like you
47:19 have changed a lot you're not the same
47:22 woman I fell in love with what's
47:24 happening to you you need help you're
47:27 through a crisis he is
47:29 describing the G the Gap the abyss that
47:33 is opening between you and the snapshot
47:37 at that
47:38 point he must get rid of you must get
47:42 rid of you because the snapshot matters
47:44 to him much more than you he's
47:46 protecting the snapshot he has zero
47:48 tolerance for abandonment zero tolerance
47:51 for loss because he is a baby it's a
47:54 baby baby with no object constancy so he
47:57 gets rid of you how to get rid of You by
48:00 devaluing you how how to justify to
48:04 himself that he idealized you yesterday
48:07 and is devaluing you today what he made
48:10 a mistake when he idealized you was he
48:12 mistaken no way narcissist is never
48:15 mistaken you changed you are not the
48:19 same person the person he's devaluing is
48:23 not the person that he idealized so this
48:26 mechanism
48:27 which is technically known as
48:29 introjection this mechanism explains the
48:33 the Cycles what is the technique so
48:36 everything I'm telling you there is a
48:37 technique the technique is to animate
48:40 the snapshot remember the narcissist has
48:42 in his mind a representation of you as
48:45 you used to be let's say when you met so
48:48 you have two options to go back to that
48:51 time and become who you used to be to
48:54 give up on your personal progress and
48:56 development you will be shocked how many
48:58 partners do exactly this they started to
49:01 study in the University they stop they
49:03 are successful in business they close
49:05 the business ET is to they unwind the
49:09 changes that's one technique the second
49:12 technique is what we call brinkmanship
49:15 it's it's to animate the snapshot to
49:19 extreme that means to challenge the
49:21 snapshot to provide the narcissist with
49:23 a new snapshot but how can you do that
49:26 you already has a snapshot of You by not
49:28 being you you must change so radically
49:32 and
49:33 dramatically that the narcissist will
49:35 have the feeling that he had just met a
49:37 new partner change everything from
49:39 hairstyle to clothing to lovers to I
49:42 mean behave totally differently
49:45 different priorities different
49:48 everything and the narcissist will say
49:50 wow I'm falling in love with you again
49:53 you're so different I've had couples
49:56 restart sex after 15 years I've I've had
49:59 divorced couples who went back to living
50:02 together with this technique next thing
50:05 you should
50:07 know
50:09 narcissism narcissism feels to The
50:13 Narcissist like religion feels to an
50:17 extreme American
50:18 fundamentalist or a member of Isis
50:22 narcissists
50:24 are religious fanatics they are members
50:28 of a very special religion this religion
50:30 has one God and one worshipper and it's
50:34 the only religion in the world where the
50:37 God is the
50:40 worshipper
50:41 but the inner
50:43 experience the emotional correlate the
50:47 cognitive aspects are utterly identical
50:52 to a religious experience let us try to
50:55 understand why it's it's my favorite
50:57 topic so I don't care if you're not
50:59 interested to live with a narcissist to
51:02 be with a narcissist is to be member of
51:05 a cult the narcissist is the leader of
51:08 the cult and you are the
51:11 member the narcissism religion is
51:15 missionary Christianity sent
51:18 missionaries in the 19th century to
51:20 Africa to convert the natives the
51:23 natives were happy some of the
51:25 missionaries were tasty
51:28 but exactly like Christianity sent
51:30 missionaries to Africa to convert the
51:33 natives exactly in the same way the
51:36 narcissist is trying to convert you to
51:39 his religion what is narcissistic Supply
51:43 it's to worship The Narcissist when the
51:46 narcissist is asking you to give him
51:48 Supply he is asking you to worship His
51:51 God
51:53 him so there is a very interesting
51:56 branch new
51:57 branch of teaching the victims to cope
52:02 with
52:03 narcissist the same way we cope with
52:07 religious
52:08 fundamentalists I'm kidding you not when
52:10 you meet a fanatic Muslim or a fanatic
52:13 Jew or a fanatic Christian instinctively
52:16 you know what not to say yes you will
52:21 not mock Muhammad unless you are
52:24 Danish you will not you will not attack
52:28 God in the presence of a fundamentalist
52:31 Christian uh Jesus you will not attack
52:33 Jesus in the presence of fundamentalist
52:35 Christian so you know intuitively
52:38 instinctively no one taught you no one
52:40 told you but you know what not to do you
52:42 know what not to say and if you are
52:45 inside the church or inside the mosque
52:47 or inside the synagogue you definitely
52:51 know that some things are never done
52:54 some things are never said well when you
52:58 live with a narcissist you're living
53:00 with a religious
53:02 fundamentalist some things you never do
53:05 and some things you never say you never
53:09 challenge the god of the narcissist
53:12 which happens to be the narcissist you
53:13 never challenge the attributes of that
53:15 God God is all knowing god is all
53:18 powerful God is god is perfect God is
53:21 brilliant you don't challenge this it's
53:24 bad it's bad taste it's impolite to tell
53:28 me that I'm not God it also means you're
53:31 delusional I am God but still it's a
53:36 church so
53:40 seriously if you begin to look at
53:42 narcissism as a religion and understand
53:45 that you are living with that religion's
53:48 extreme
53:50 fundamentalist you will automatically
53:52 instinctively intuitively know what to
53:54 do and how to behave
53:57 how does narcissism become a religion
53:59 why does it have religious aspects very
54:02 briefly the child is uh abused by his
54:08 parents mostly his mother but not only
54:10 by his
54:11 parents now this abuse is many
54:14 forms it can be classic sexual abuse
54:17 sexual physical abuse psychological
54:20 abuse but abuse is any
54:23 situation where the child is not allowed
54:27 to separate from the parent and become
54:30 an individual when the parent does not
54:33 allow the child to develop his his or
54:36 her own
54:37 boundaries a healthy child with a
54:40 healthy parent the child stops here the
54:44 parent starts here there's a boundary
54:46 between them in the case of a
54:50 narcissistic parent
54:52 usually the child is not allowed to
54:55 build Donald Trump's border War the
54:59 child is not
55:00 allowed to make a distinction between
55:02 herself or himself and the parent so you
55:05 know the mother who always wanted to be
55:06 an actress and she failed and she forces
55:09 her daughter to become an actress that's
55:12 abuse you know the mother who spoils the
55:15 child and tells him that he can never do
55:17 anything wrong it's abuse it's abused
55:21 because it doesn't allow the child to
55:23 conflict with the environment thereby
55:25 creating a boundary so there are many
55:28 many forms of abuse how does a child
55:30 react to this he creates an imaginary
55:34 friend a piece of fiction the false self
55:37 the false self is everything that the
55:41 child is
55:42 not the child is small false self is
55:45 infinite the child cannot
55:48 guess what the parent will do next the
55:51 parent is unpredictable the false self
55:53 knows everything is omnicient the child
55:56 child is helpless the false self is all
55:59 powerful the child is receiving
56:01 conditional love if you do this and this
56:04 I will love you so there are the child
56:07 knows that if he fails he is a bad
56:12 object he will not be loved he is
56:15 unworthy the false self is perfect the
56:18 false self is everything the child is
56:20 not but look at the list look at the
56:23 list of the false self perfect knows
56:25 everything
56:27 um all powerful
56:29 brilliant there are only two entities in
56:32 the world which have this description
56:35 one is Donald Trump and one is God and
56:38 Donald Trump has orange air so God is
56:43 left so seriously the child's child
56:46 actually
56:47 invents God and creates the child
56:51 creates a private religion this God the
56:55 false self
56:56 protects him from the parent absorbs the
57:00 pain and the hurt isolates the child
57:04 like a firewall the false self is a
57:06 child's God but you know it's a very
57:10 primitive God it's the god of the Old
57:15 Testament and like the god of the Old
57:17 Testament who asked Abraham to sacrifice
57:19 Isaac the false self asks the child to
57:23 sacrifice something the false self is a
57:25 God and once's Human
57:28 Sacrifice but what human sacrifice what
57:32 can the child sacrifice who can the
57:34 child sacrifice
57:36 himself only himself that's precisely
57:39 what the child does he sacrifices
57:42 himself to this new God the false self
57:46 he sacrifices his true
57:49 self to the false self he worship he
57:54 worships the false self but the false
57:57 self is a very greedy and hungry God and
58:01 like the molok one human sacrifice is
58:04 not enough this God demands additional
58:07 human sacrifices and this is where I'm
58:09 happy to say you come in you are these
58:12 additional human sacrifices The
58:15 Narcissist has to sacrifice you to the
58:18 false self and this is precisely why in
58:21 1995 I coined the phrase narcissistic
58:25 abuse why did I need to say narcissistic
58:28 abuse why not abuse because narcissistic
58:31 abuse is total The Narcissist only way
58:35 to sacrifice you to the false self is to
58:39 eliminate your separate existence he
58:42 must The Narcissist must annihilate you
58:46 the narcissist abuse is not functional
58:49 or
58:50 instrumental it's existential you must
58:53 die so that the false self is gratified
58:57 and
58:58 satisfied because if the fal self is not
59:01 satisfied and not gratified The
59:03 Narcissist will not exist so ladies and
59:07 ladies when you team up with a
59:09 narcissist it's either him or
59:13 you it's a war to death one of you one
59:17 of you must die at least psychologically
59:21 indeed victims and intimate partners of
59:24 narcissist describe a feeling of inner
59:27 death it's very interesting because
59:31 there was a scholar by the name of Oto
59:34 kernberg in
59:36 1975 kernberg invented the diagnosis of
59:39 borderline personality disorder when we
59:42 observe victims of narcissist from the
59:45 outside we cannot tell if they are
59:49 victims of narcissist or if they are
59:51 patients with borderline personality
59:53 disorder this void
59:56 this inner inner death is common to
60:01 victims of complex PTSD and to patients
60:05 with borderline personality disorder and
60:08 it leads to libility
60:10 ups and downs and to emotional
60:13 disregulation which is subject for
60:15 another
60:16 lecture four brief points and then I
60:19 will open the floor to two questions
60:21 Point number
60:23 one The Narcissist has an external law
60:26 Fus of control in other words The
60:28 Narcissist ironically believes that his
60:31 life is determined from the outside
60:34 consequently The Narcissist blames
60:37 everything on the outside and this is
60:39 known as alloplastic defense so this is
60:42 the sequence my life is determined from
60:44 outside so I'm not responsible it's not
60:46 by fault not guilty they did it he did
60:49 it she did
60:51 it not me so locus of control is
60:56 defense is alloplastic this is very
60:58 interesting for you because if you are
61:01 willing to play a kind of dangerous game
61:04 you can become the narcissist locus of
61:08 control but you have to be very sharp
61:10 astute and know what you're doing first
61:12 of all you must allow the narcissist to
61:14 blame you for everything allow encourage
61:16 it to blame you for everything so you
61:19 come to n it's my fault I made a mistake
61:21 it was wrong I shouldn't have done it oh
61:24 poor you you're are suffering because of
61:26 me etc etc etc etc this has two
61:29 beneficial effects if you say it the
61:32 narcissist doesn't have to say it it
61:34 reduces the abuse but much more
61:36 importantly gradually The Narcissist out
61:39 of convenience will begin to regard you
61:43 as the locus of control as the external
61:45 locus of control and and he will become
61:47 extremely codependent on you it's
61:50 totally counterintuitive technique but
61:52 it works narcissist will say to himself
61:55 everything that's bad
61:56 is her
61:57 fault probably everything that's good is
62:00 her fault probably everything is her
62:02 fault probably she controls everything
62:04 it's a kind of a conspiracy theory he
62:07 will develop a kind of conspiracy theory
62:09 don't forget the narcis narcissism is a
62:13 religion and you can apply for the job
62:15 of
62:16 God all you need is a Long White
62:19 Beard okay next Point magical thinking
62:23 one of the reasons not therapy works
62:26 with narcissist all therapist fail with
62:28 narcissist possibly the reason the major
62:31 reason is the therapist insist to treat
62:35 narcissist as adults they strike an
62:39 alliance with the narcissist they they
62:42 negotiate with the narcissist they argue
62:44 with the narcissist they rason with the
62:46 narcissist they ask the narcissist to
62:47 promise things the narcissist is not an
62:49 adult there is no narcissist alive whose
62:53 mental age well alive dead ones may
62:55 maybe but narc there's no narcist alive
62:59 whose mental age is higher than let's
63:02 say
63:05 11 so it's a mistake to treat narcissist
63:10 as
63:11 adults my new therapy C therapy is built
63:14 on this
63:16 insight and it all the techniques in C
63:19 therapy are based on child psychology
63:23 but one of the things that children have
63:26 is called magical thinking because
63:28 children have magical thinking the
63:29 narcissist has magical thinking magical
63:31 thinking is the belief that internal
63:34 processes affect reality so you know the
63:38 famous phenomenon that children blame
63:40 themselves for bad things that are
63:42 happening to the parents that's magical
63:44 thinking or children Expect Miracles or
63:47 believe in fairy tales or have imaginary
63:50 friends these are all forms of magical
63:52 thinking and of course false self is a
63:54 major feet of magical thinking but if
63:58 you take magical thinking and add to it
64:02 grandiosity Godlike I'm Godlike and add
64:06 to it immunity because I'm God no one
64:09 can touch me if you mix this you get a
64:12 very explosive mixture because of this
64:16 mixture The Narcissist for example is
64:20 reckless is takes risks crazy risks
64:24 Because he believes in magic he's immune
64:26 no no one and nothing can touch him
64:28 there are no consequences to his actions
64:30 he's God God can do anything no so he's
64:32 Reckless so you risk taker and he is
64:36 GB gble stupid believes everyone and
64:39 everything easy to deceive to cheat and
64:42 to con no there is no one more stupid
64:47 than the person who thinks he is not
64:49 that's another Jew by the name of
64:51 Socrates who said it so the narcissist
64:54 believes that he knows everything
64:56 cannot learn anything and no one can be
64:59 more clever than him and this is the
65:02 dream dream client of a con artist you
65:06 can make use of this you can make use of
65:09 this if you want the narcissist to do
65:12 something you convince him that it was
65:14 his
65:15 idea everything comes from him you you
65:19 want to put an idea in his head you ask
65:22 for his advice even if he's totally
65:24 unqualified
65:26 you you push him to perform Miracles you
65:29 say that you expect him to to do this
65:32 because he can do anything it's very
65:34 easy to manipulate the narcissist using
65:36 his grandiosity magical thinking and
65:38 belief that he is immune to the
65:40 consequences of his actions and you use
65:43 the narcissist entitlement you tell the
65:46 narcissist you deserve this you want him
65:48 to take risks you want him to leave you
65:51 alone all you have to say for example
65:54 you deserve someone much better than me
65:56 true The Narcissist will say I really
65:59 do or you deserve the easy life you
66:03 shouldn't work so hard or your luck will
66:07 you're very lucky your luck will carry
66:09 you through I mean it's extremely easy
66:11 just be creative the reason I'm giving
66:13 you a two two and something hour lecture
66:17 is because Barbara paid me a lot of
66:19 money but if Barbara hadn't paid me a
66:22 lot of money the lecture would have been
66:24 extremely short and would have contained
66:26 a single sentence manage your narcissist
66:30 as you manage your 4-year-old end of
66:32 story you saw how much money you could
66:34 have saved that's a narcissist for you
66:36 you can never trust last point and we
66:40 last point and I I will open to I will
66:43 open to questions one thing people
66:46 including by the way the vast majority
66:49 of
66:49 professionals including the leading
66:52 experts on paranoia what they don't
66:54 appreciate is that paranoia is a form of
66:57 narcissism there are two critical
67:00 elements in
67:01 paranoia without which you cannot be
67:03 paranoid Point number one I am the
67:06 center of attention someone is paying me
67:09 attention and I am sufficiently
67:12 important for someone to to want to harm
67:15 me take away these two elements and
67:17 there's no paranoia but what isano what
67:20 is I'm the center of
67:21 attention grandiosity it's a form of
67:24 narcissistic Supply and what is and what
67:27 is he wants to harm me the CIA is after
67:30 me what is this it means I'm very
67:33 important I can be important to the CIA
67:36 if I'm an not case or I can be important
67:38 to my neighbor but it doesn't matter I
67:40 am important my neighbor is sitting at
67:43 night obsessed thinking how to kill my
67:45 dog you know I'm the center of my
67:48 neighbor's Universe the focus of his
67:50 thoughts this is classic grandio
67:53 narcissism a CL absolutely no wonder
67:56 most narcissist are paranoid it's just
67:58 the other way that's not been recognized
68:00 that most paranoids are actually
68:02 narcissist now persecutory delusions
68:05 this paranoia technically is called
68:06 persecutory delusion because it's a
68:08 delusion of
68:10 persecution persecutory delusion lead to
68:12 a behavior called hypervigilance
68:14 hypervigilance is when I scan the
68:17 room and I say I'm giving the most
68:21 important lecture of this new century
68:23 and this guy is blowing his nose
68:26 that's an
68:27 insult he's humiliating me he better I'm
68:31 just giving this as an example so a
68:34 classic narcissist might think like this
68:36 he's scanning scanning for disrespect
68:40 insults attacks you know so for example
68:44 you tell me good morning tell me good
68:47 morning tell me good
68:49 evening no tell me good evening let's be
68:52 realistic good evening good evening why
68:55 do you think I don't know it's evening
68:57 you think I'm stupid I need you to tell
69:00 me it's
69:01 evening this is a hypervigilant reaction
69:04 and it's very often utterly ridiculous
69:07 as in this example good evening this guy
69:10 thinks I'm I'm too stupid to notice this
69:12 evening can't believe some people I mean
69:14 horrible so this is paranoia persecutory
69:17 delusions and hypervigilance you can
69:19 make use of it you can make use of it by
69:22 enhancing and not not ameliorating not
69:25 reducing but enhancing The Narcissist
69:28 persecutory delusions and hypervigilance
69:30 in various ways so for example you
69:32 remember the technique of deflection
69:34 decoy where both of you hate the
69:37 Mother-in-law so you can use this common
69:40 enemy to
69:42 enhance the paranoia and to enhance the
69:46 hypervigilance what for the higher the
69:49 paranoia the more the
69:52 hypervigilance the more the narcissist
69:54 will need
69:56 you as an ally it will create what we
70:00 call in French
70:01 fad so both of you will be in this
70:05 paranoid persecutory delusion and you
70:08 will feed it and he will get the naris
70:10 will get closer and closer to
70:13 you this is very common in communities
70:15 for example like the militias the
70:18 militias in paramilitary militias in the
70:20 United States in the Appalachian
70:21 Mountains and so on it's common in some
70:24 terrorist organizations for example we
70:26 have psychological studies of the Carlos
70:28 terrorist organization in the' 70s and B
70:30 mhof and the red guards in in Italy the
70:36 and in all these there were women and
70:40 men in cells and they had this Dynamic
70:43 going so there there are studies in
70:46 Germany B
70:48 mhof some some of the leaders were
70:51 women and
70:54 uh they use these techniques exactly to
70:57 control highly narcissistic men same
71:00 same in the Manson family so this is the
71:03 technique I recommend if your narcissist
71:05 is a serial killer or
71:08 terrorist and if not and you use this
71:10 technique he will end up as
71:12 one okay guys what's left of you uh I'm
71:16 open to questions
71:27 narcissists use two strategies two
71:30 behavioral
71:32 patterns in order to manipulate people
71:35 to do their
71:37 bidding they either please
71:40 people cater to their needs act as best
71:44 friends loving compassionate empathic
71:47 it's all of course a fake fainted
71:50 simulation but it's
71:52 still people pleasing Behavior
71:55 emulates real people Pleasers or they
71:59 terrorize people today we're going to
72:01 focus on people pleasing now just to
72:04 make clear the majority of people
72:07 Pleasers are not narcissists they are
72:10 not and yet all people pleases
72:13 narcissist or not are easy to
72:17 manipulate it's easy to get them to do
72:20 what you want them to do it's not that
72:22 they are gall it's not that they are
72:24 polyan is but they are driven they're
72:28 driven by the need by the need to
72:31 satisfy gratify and please
72:36 others and so this is the topic of
72:39 today's video three steps to manipulate
72:43 a people pleaser as evil a title as I
72:47 could come up with and a propo evil my
72:51 name is s vaknin and I'm the author of
72:53 malignant self- Lov narcissism visited
72:55 the first book ever on narcissistic
72:58 abuse and a professor of Clinical
73:01 Psychology which pleases me no
73:07 end okay shim konim etc etc first I
73:13 advise you to um realize that the video
73:17 is divided in two parts the first part
73:19 is a general introduction and the second
73:21 part I go much deeper into the
73:24 psychology of people pleas Pleasers all
73:26 in all it's a pretty short video by my
73:29 standards but still it would be
73:31 perfectly okay if you were to watch only
73:33 the first part it's entirely up to
73:36 you it's important to realize or to
73:39 understand that people
73:40 pleasing is a phenomenon that involves
73:44 grandiosity and
73:46 catastrophizing why grandiosity people
73:49 Pleasers are submissive people Pleasers
73:52 are Meek they're humble the modest
73:56 they're there to
73:57 serve so why use the word
74:01 grandiosity because people pleaser make
74:03 the assumption that other people are
74:06 going to be devastated that other people
74:09 are going to be harmed that the
74:12 well-being of other people is going to
74:13 be compromised if the people pleas her
74:17 were to say no if the people pleaser
74:20 were to deny his or her Services
74:22 something bad would happen to the
74:26 recipients so there is this
74:29 grandiosity this hidden message or
74:31 hidden assumption that you as a people
74:34 pleaser you hold the well-being the
74:39 internal regulation the moods and the
74:41 emotions of other people in your hands
74:44 you're in charge you're in charge of
74:47 other people being happy you're in
74:49 charge of other people's happiness now
74:52 that's as grandio a statement as I've
74:54 ever ever
74:56 heard
74:57 and the people C's message is I am that
75:02 important to other people's lives I am
75:05 that crucial to other people's
75:07 well-being that I really must
75:10 perform I must do my bit I must
75:14 contribute I must please so this is the
75:17 grandiosity part the second part has to
75:20 do with
75:21 catastrophizing again there's a an
75:24 occult hidden
75:26 message hidden
75:28 assumption and that is the P Pleasers
75:32 tells himself or herself if I were to
75:35 say
75:36 no there would be disastrous
75:39 consequences to me especially
75:42 emotionally but maybe also in other ways
75:46 I may end up making enemies and there
75:48 will be disastrous consequences to
75:51 others who could have benefited from my
75:54 actions choices and
75:57 decisions so this assumption this
75:59 underlying
76:00 assumption that where the people pleaser
76:03 sees to be a people pleaser when the
76:05 people pleaser stop pleasing other
76:08 people some disastrous cataclysmic
76:11 apocalyptic consequences would follow
76:14 this is of course catastrophizing a
76:16 cognitive
76:18 distortion grandiosity is also cognitive
76:21 distortion so we can generalize and say
76:24 that the people pleaser pleaser mind is
76:28 cognitively
76:30 distorted the reality testing of a
76:32 people pleaser is all shot impaired he
76:37 doesn't or she doesn't grasp reality
76:40 appropriately the people
76:42 pleaser grasps reality or Peres reality
76:47 in a way that elevates the people
76:49 pleaser into a position of power on the
76:52 one hand and by do doing
76:56 so renders the people pleaser
76:59 responsible for other people's happiness
77:02 other people's well-being other people's
77:06 gratification and other people's
77:09 accomplishments this is where the people
77:11 pleaser positions himself or herself
77:15 it's a choice actually it's a choice
77:19 that's emotionally
77:21 gratifying anxiety
77:23 reducing and self
77:27 aggrandizing there are automatic
77:30 thoughts at the core of the people pleas
77:33 people pleasing involves what is known
77:35 in cognitive behavior therapy as ants
77:39 automatic thoughts not necessarily
77:42 negative most people Pleasers have been
77:46 parentified as
77:48 children when they were young they were
77:51 forced to act in the role of a parent in
77:54 even to their own parents they fathered
77:58 the father they mothered the mother they
78:00 were the adults in the room as children
78:04 they were never allow allowed to
78:06 experience childhood they were never
78:08 they were never inducted into a
78:12 trajectory of healthy self-growth and
78:15 self-development they were playing a
78:17 role from the very Inception of life
78:20 people pleasing therefore is a role
78:23 playing thing has to do with role
78:26 playing and role Theory but these
78:28 automatic thoughts which are at the core
78:30 of people pleasing among especially
78:33 among parentifying children are the
78:35 following number one my happiness is
78:39 always it's someone else's expense it's
78:43 a zero sum game if I'm happy that's
78:46 because I've made someone else unhappy
78:48 or it's because I could have made
78:50 someone else happy and did
78:52 not number two I have to earn my
78:56 happiness I don't deserve it I have to
78:59 work hard I have to
79:02 justify any gratification any gift any
79:07 re receiving any whenever I take
79:11 something whenever I seek to be happy or
79:15 content I have to work hard to justify
79:17 this I don't deserve this
79:21 automatically it's because maybe I'm not
79:23 lovable
79:25 or maybe because I'm a failure making
79:28 other people happy or maybe because my
79:32 destiny and my mission in life is to
79:35 make other people happy and any minute
79:37 that I spend on myself is a der elction
79:40 of
79:40 Duty whatever the reason may be there is
79:43 this self-perception that happiness is
79:47 not out there for the taking but has to
79:50 be somehow gained somehow
79:53 earned number three I have to somehow
79:56 bribe people to stay with me collaborate
80:00 with me help me and tolerate
80:03 me because I'm not lovable or because
80:07 I'm a freak or because I'm a difficult
80:10 person or because I'm unique even
80:14 positively unique but in any
80:16 case I'm an exception I'm an
80:20 outlier and therefore I should be
80:22 treated as an outcast
80:25 and so when people agree to be with me
80:27 spend time with me when they agree to
80:29 socialize with me let alone become
80:32 friends or in a couple when they agree
80:35 to work with me help me I should be
80:39 grateful I should be grateful and I
80:42 should demonstrate my gratitude by
80:44 giving them something it could be
80:47 something tangible a material possession
80:50 it could be my time it could be my
80:52 resources and energy it could be
80:55 something self-sacrificial denying
80:58 myself happiness and gratification in
81:01 order to bring it on in the people who
81:04 share my
81:05 life I am a bad object says the people
81:10 pleaser I'm unworthy I'm unlovable I'm
81:13 crazy I'm inadequate I'm dissolute I'm
81:16 hopeless I'm irredeemable and so on so
81:19 forth number four I need to compromise
81:22 on my boundaries and rights
81:25 owing to all the above because I'm such
81:29 a difficult person to be with because
81:31 the experience of being with me the
81:34 experience of helping me the experience
81:36 of loving me is so
81:39 honorous and so
81:42 unrewarding I have to give up on my
81:45 boundaries I have to compromise on my
81:48 rights I have to be
81:50 easygoing I have to accept I have to be
81:53 submissive
81:56 why all that in order to somehow
81:59 mitigate somehow mitigate the difficulty
82:03 of being with
82:04 me if I were to be
82:07 unbounded if I were to not insist on
82:10 what's mine and what I'm owed maybe this
82:14 would allow people in my life to remain
82:16 in my life and to not abandon me or
82:19 reject
82:20 me now having taking all the taken all
82:23 this in mind you could see how easy it
82:26 is to manipulate people
82:29 Pleasers the main motivation of a people
82:31 pleaser would be to please you of course
82:35 so here are the three steps to
82:37 manipulating people Pleasers all you
82:40 have to do is this number one
82:43 communicate your
82:44 expectations either overtly explicitly
82:48 and verbally or behaviorally with body
82:52 language microexpression
82:55 and so on either way make clear and make
82:58 sure that the people pleaser has
83:01 understood what is expected of him or
83:04 her your expectations become the rule
83:09 your expectations Rule and so they must
83:12 be gratified they must be met and they
83:16 must be actualized number two
83:19 communicate pleasure when your
83:22 expectations are met but don't overdo it
83:26 always leave place for
83:28 more render the process
83:31 inexorable
83:34 unattainable be
83:36 pleased demonstrate that you're happy
83:38 and content and
83:40 gratified but do it in a way that SES
83:44 doubt in the people Pleasers mind
83:47 whether he or she have done enough for
83:51 you number three communicate
83:55 profound
83:57 unmitigated
83:59 disappointment even
84:01 heartbreak when the people pleaser fails
84:04 to meet your
84:06 expectations whenever there's a gap
84:09 between what you wanted what you have
84:11 wanted the people pleaser to do and what
84:14 the people pleaser opted to do at the at
84:17 the end whenever there's such a gap
84:20 communicate to the people pleas that
84:23 you're so so so devastated you are so
84:27 sad you're so sorry you're so
84:31 angry you're so heartbroken even that
84:34 maybe just maybe you're on the verge of
84:37 abandoning the people pleaser and
84:39 rejecting the whole
84:41 relationship do do these three things
84:45 with the people pleaser and you will
84:48 have found a
84:50 lifelong servant not to say slave
84:54 catering permanently to all your needs
84:59 selflessly self-
85:01 sacrificially and without
85:05 complaint that is the popular part now
85:09 on to the psychodynamics and psychology
85:14 of people pleases a little more in
85:22 depth yes I'm alive I survived the Trump
85:27 video you didn't get to me you're going
85:30 to make more
85:33 videos my name is sakin I the author of
85:36 malignance of Love narcissism Revisited
85:39 the Bible of narcissism the book that
85:42 coined all the language in use today I'm
85:45 also a professor of psychology two days
85:48 ago I released a video about the way
85:53 constructs
85:54 reshape
85:56 reality uh reframe your memories in
86:00 order to uphold and to butress and to
86:03 support a specific self state which is
86:07 responsive to environmental cues now
86:10 this was a mouthful so I'll remind you
86:13 self State the environment sends you
86:16 stimuli the environment provides
86:17 information and data a specific self
86:21 state is selected the self state
86:25 activates a construct the construct
86:28 interfaces with reality gathers the
86:31 information filters it reframes it in
86:35 order to conform to the self State and
86:39 then the construct also uh changes your
86:45 memory it kind of represses some
86:47 memories emphasizes other memories
86:49 creates select a selective memory
86:52 environment so it Alters
86:55 it Alters the perception of reality it
86:57 Alters your memories and then it induces
87:00 in you behaviors that tend to uphold the
87:04 self State this is done via introjects
87:08 the introjects are internal voices in
87:11 your head that send out a stream of
87:15 automatic thoughts the
87:17 constructs activate trigger specific
87:21 injects then the automatic thoughts
87:23 shape your behavior and you create in
87:27 the environment you create you generate
87:30 specific
87:32 outcomes uh your behavior has
87:34 consequences and these outcomes or
87:37 Consequences tend to support to uphold
87:42 to prove right the self- state and its
87:46 Associated constellation of
87:49 constructs I recommend that you watch
87:52 that video there's a lot more there a 1
87:54 hour video one of my
87:56 shortest but many of you have written to
87:58 me to ask can you give me can you give
88:01 us an example can you give us an example
88:03 of how this works in reality so today
88:06 I'm going to do exactly this you are
88:09 warned today I'm going to discuss how
88:13 this mechanism works with people
88:16 Pleasers and with children uh adults who
88:20 had been parentified as children
88:24 and so these people
88:28 have specific automatic thoughts these
88:32 automatic thoughts are at the core of
88:34 the identity of people Pleasers and
88:37 formally parentified children what are
88:40 these automatic thoughts well here they
88:43 are number one my happiness is always at
88:48 someone else's expense I call it the
88:52 Zero Sum automatic thought
88:55 if you happy someone else is unhappy
88:58 your happiness is someone else's
89:00 sacrifice your contentment your joy your
89:04 cheer is someone else's distress or
89:09 burden so there's a zero some game if
89:13 you love people if you like people if
89:17 you want to please people if you feel
89:19 that you are someone's mother or
89:23 someone's daddy figure you are going to
89:26 withhold your happiness you're going to
89:29 suppress your joy and cheer and
89:33 contentment in order not to inflict
89:36 undue burdens sacrifices and unhappiness
89:41 on your nearest and dearest that is
89:44 automatic thought number one and it
89:45 comes from an inject or a group of
89:48 injects possibly for example a harsh
89:51 critical mother or a withholding absent
89:55 mother or a selfish essentially dead
89:58 mother
90:00 mentally okay the second automatic
90:03 thought at the core of people pleasing
90:05 and formally parentified children is I
90:08 have to earn my happiness I don't
90:11 deserve happiness I have to work hard
90:13 for it I have to justify it I have to
90:17 demonstrate that uh happiness um is due
90:22 is my due
90:24 happiness is not an ambient thing
90:27 happiness is not something that everyone
90:30 around me should strive to provide me
90:32 for happiness is not something I should
90:35 pursue because if I pursue happiness it
90:37 is at someone else's expense happiness
90:40 is hard work so these people identify
90:44 happiness with tasks with
90:47 assignments with
90:49 labor the more the busier they are the
90:53 more difficult life is the more honorous
90:56 the
90:57 tasks the more they have to
91:00 do the the happier they feel because
91:03 surely having invested so much work
91:07 happiness is coming to me
91:10 so um these people would tend to become
91:13 for example Workaholics they would tend
91:16 to develop addictions a variety of
91:19 addictions addiction is perceived by the
91:20 adct as work you ask any Junkie and he
91:24 will tell you how much work there is in
91:25 securing the drug and then using the
91:27 drug and so on so forth addiction
91:29 involves ceremonies routines addiction
91:33 creates a social circle around the
91:34 addict so addiction is an organizing
91:37 principle a life structuring affirmation
91:41 at these people people Pleasers formerly
91:44 parentified children they tend to become
91:46 addicts because the
91:48 addiction is perceived as labor hard
91:52 labor and toil is the prerequisite and
91:58 the an antecedent of Happiness there's
92:00 no happiness without toil it's a little
92:04 like in the Bible you know when Adam and
92:06 Eve were expelled from the Garden of
92:09 Eden God promised them a life of
92:13 toil uh compensated for by giving giving
92:17 birth to
92:18 Children okay happiness including
92:21 childbearing and child rearing
92:24 um you have to work for it you have to
92:26 earn it and deserve
92:29 it number
92:30 three automatic thought number
92:34 three
92:36 somehow I have to bribe
92:39 people I have to bribe people around me
92:42 I have to somehow corrupt them by
92:45 offering them something I have to
92:48 compensate them for being with me I have
92:51 to bribe people to stay with me I I have
92:54 to bribe people to collaborate with me I
92:57 have to coopt people to help me I have
93:00 to make sure that people tolerate me
93:02 because I give them something in
93:05 return and I need to do all this because
93:08 I'm a bad object I'm unworthy I'm
93:12 unlovable I'm crazy I'm inadequate I'm
93:16 dissolute I'm hopeless and so on and so
93:20 forth I am so I am such
93:25 um bad deal I'm such a delinquent
93:29 proposition that for people to do to
93:32 have anything to do with me they somehow
93:36 must be given something in return must
93:38 be
93:40 compensated so this is the third
93:42 automatic negative automatic thought and
93:44 the fourth automatic thought is I need
93:47 to
93:48 compromise life is a compromise I need
93:51 to compromise on my boundaries
93:54 I need to give up my
93:55 rise I need to do all this because of
93:58 the previous three automatic thoughts
94:01 I'm unworthy my happiness is always at
94:04 the expense of someone and I have to
94:06 earn my happiness so I need to give up
94:08 on boundaries on rights on demands on
94:13 expectations I can't force myself on the
94:17 environment I need to minimize myself I
94:20 need to minimize myself to the point of
94:22 Vanishing
94:24 I need to be an
94:25 apparition I need to become a function I
94:29 can't be a full-fledged human being
94:32 because I'm a full if a full-fledged
94:33 human being this in itself is a burden
94:38 on other
94:39 people this in itself is an requires an
94:42 exertion of other people just to accept
94:45 me I'm inexorable I'm a plague and a
94:49 Devastation I need to keep myself hidden
94:53 or
94:54 in a
94:58 way these are the automatic thoughts at
95:02 the core of people pleasing at the core
95:04 of formerly parentified
95:07 children and these automatic thoughts
95:11 pervade all areas of life all types of
95:15 functioning all acts all decisions and
95:19 choices all cognitions and all emotions
95:23 in sex for example someone with this
95:27 mindset would allow her partner to do
95:30 anything to her even a casual partner
95:33 even a total stranger she would have no
95:35 boundaries she would let him anything do
95:38 anything he pleases she would not dare
95:40 say no because in her mind she has no
95:45 right to say no if she if she were to
95:48 say no she would make the partner angry
95:52 justifiably she would deserve punishment
95:55 because she's a bad object so she would
95:58 succumb to unwanted sex with an un
96:02 undesirable partner because that's just
96:05 the way it is she doesn't deserve any
96:07 better she has no rights she doesn't
96:10 have even the right to impose a
96:12 boundary it's nice of him to just be
96:15 with her and give her some attention and
96:17 this is in SE in the family such a
96:21 person would be a doormat she would
96:24 cater to the needs of others to the
96:26 point of self Deion and utter exhaustion
96:30 she would sacrifice a health physical
96:33 and mental just to guarantee Harmony
96:38 Consensus These people are conflict
96:41 averse these automatic thoughts are
96:44 coopted by the constructs the constructs
96:48 Within These people the construct
96:50 inherent inherent in these people
96:54 they activate they trigger specific
96:57 injects for example the harsh harsh
97:00 mommy inject or the rejecting absent
97:04 daddy
97:05 inject Or the critical teacher inject so
97:10 the the constructs in these
97:13 people constructs within these people
97:16 they would trigger specific
97:18 introjects and these introjects will
97:22 spew out will generate the afor
97:25 mentioned four automatic
97:28 thoughts so the constructs activate the
97:33 introjects the
97:34 introjects begin to generate automatic
97:38 thoughts your happiness is someone
97:41 else's expense you have to earn your
97:43 happiness you don't deserve it you have
97:45 to Bri bribe people to stay with you
97:48 collaborate with you help you or
97:50 tolerate you and you need to compromise
97:52 on your boundaries and rights these are
97:54 the automatic thoughts the constructs
97:57 latch onto these automatic thoughts
98:00 appropriate them snatch them and they
98:03 use them to manipulate the environment
98:06 the behavior I'm sorry they use these
98:10 automatic thoughts generated by the
98:11 interjects the constructs use them to
98:15 manipulate or affect the
98:18 behaviors of the p pleasa and the
98:22 formally paren
98:25 child people
98:27 pleasing and formally parentified child
98:30 these are the self
98:32 States so the people pleaser has a
98:35 people pleasing self States self state
98:39 which then uses a group of constructs
98:44 which then activate specific interjects
98:48 which gen with which then
98:50 generate the automatic thoughts which
98:53 then affect the behaviors of the people
98:56 pleaser and the formerly parentified
99:00 child I hope it's a bit clearer now you
99:03 can apply it to every situation and
99:06 every person you've ever met this is a
99:09 universal model a self- state responsive
99:13 to to the environment self- State
99:15 responsive to circumstances self- State
99:18 responsive to other people this self-
99:21 state selects con conct s constructs are
99:25 ways of organizing the
99:28 world constructs are ways of imbuing the
99:31 world which sense and meaning
99:34 interpreting the world explaining what's
99:37 happening so the
99:39 constructs falsify memory reframe memory
99:44 and they also suppress lots of
99:47 information information that conflicts
99:50 with the self State challenges the self
99:52 state will be filtered out the construct
99:55 is like a
99:56 membrane and then these
99:58 constructs would affect your behavior
100:02 affect the behavior of these people to
100:04 conform to the self- state they do this
100:08 by activating
100:09 injects and flooding the subject
100:13 flooding the person with automatic
100:16 thoughts automatic thoughts affect
100:18 Behavior Behavior affects reality
100:21 reality conforms to the self State
100:24 everyone is happy there's no dissonance
100:26 no conflict no anxiety this is how
100:30 things work so next time you come across
100:32 a people pleaser next time you come
100:34 across a promiscuous person who can't
100:36 say no next time you come across someone
100:40 who has been parentified as a child and
100:42 insist on being your mother or your
100:44 father because that's the only thing
100:47 they know how to how to do next time you
100:49 come across these people realize that
100:52 these are self States
100:54 they have other self States when they
100:56 are in the people pleasing self State
100:59 the promiscuous never say no self State
101:03 the um um parentifying self- State when
101:08 they are in these self States they have
101:10 specific constructs inside that activate
101:14 specific injects that flood them with
101:17 automatic thoughts that they cannot
101:19 resist these automatic thoughts are like
101:23 programming like algorithms at that
101:27 moment the self State takes over and the
101:31 person becomes a puppet a machine a
101:34 robot a
101:37 computer we spend most of our lives in
101:41 this automatic state which is why many
101:45 philosophers and psychologists and
101:47 neuroscientists doubt the existence of
101:49 free will I have a video dedicated to
101:51 this
101:54 be
101:55 forgiving because people know not know
101:59 not what they're
102:07 doing my name is sne I'm the author of
102:11 malignant self-love narcissism
102:15 Revisited to a narcissistic boss or
102:18 employer the members of his staff his
102:22 employees are sources of narcissistic
102:24 Supply and nothing
102:26 else their role is to remember events
102:31 that support the grandio self-image of
102:33 the
102:34 narcissist to regulate the narcissistic
102:37 Supply to adulate to adore to admire to
102:43 agree to affirm to provide attention and
102:47 approval and generally to serve as an
102:51 audience the staff or employees are
102:55 supposed to remain
102:57 passive the narcissist is not interested
103:00 in anything but the simplest function of
103:03 mirroring his
103:06 Grandeur his achievements his
103:10 status when the mirror the employee
103:13 acquires a personality and a life of its
103:16 own the narcissist is
103:19 incensed when independent minded an
103:22 employee is perceived to be a kind of
103:25 danger and is in danger of being sacked
103:29 by his narcissistic
103:30 employer an act which demonstrates the
103:33 employer's omnipotence control over the
103:38 employee the employees presumption to be
103:40 the employer equal is rejected and
103:45 vehemently and emotionally resented by
103:47 the
103:49 employer an employee should not try to
103:52 befriend a narcissistic boss or a
103:54 narcissistic employer friendship Is
103:58 Possible only among equals and to The
104:01 Narcissist his employees and his staff
104:04 are his
104:06 inferiors they are his property he Lords
104:09 over them he is superior to them
104:13 therefore how can he be their friend
104:16 trying to become a narcissistic bosses
104:18 or employes friend constitutes an injury
104:24 to the haughtiness and pride and
104:27 arrogance of said boss or
104:30 employer the narcissistic boss or
104:33 employer is willing to accept his
104:35 employees as underlings as subordinates
104:38 who very position serves to support his
104:41 grandio fantasies but nothing else and
104:44 nothing
104:47 above the grandiosity of the
104:49 narcissistic Boston
104:51 employer is precarious and
104:55 tenuous it rests on fragile
104:58 foundations any hint of equality with
105:01 the employees any disagreement any
105:05 criticism and even any expression of an
105:07 unfulfilled
105:09 need threatens The Narcissist
105:12 profoundly the narcissist is exceedingly
105:15 insecure deep inside it is easy to
105:19 destabilize the narc The Narcissist
105:22 impromptu to personality his false self
105:26 his
105:27 reactions however disproportionate and
105:30 rageful are merely in
105:33 self-defense
105:35 so classic narcissistic behavior is when
105:39 idealization is followed by De
105:43 devaluation so at first the narcissistic
105:45 boss or employer idealizes the new
105:49 employee he the new employee can do
105:51 nothing wrong he's perfect he's br
105:53 I is attuned to The Narcissist needs but
105:58 then devaluation
106:00 follows as a result of minor
106:03 disagreements or merely because time has
106:06 eroded the employees capacity to serve
106:09 as a fresh source of attention and
106:11 narcissistic
106:14 Supply the veteran employee is taken for
106:17 granted by his narcissistic employer and
106:20 boss he becomes uninspiring as a source
106:23 of adulation admiration and attention
106:26 The Narcissist always seeks new Thrills
106:29 new
106:30 stimuli provided through and via the
106:34 attention given by new
106:36 employees the narcissist is notorious
106:39 for for his low threshold of resistance
106:42 to Bodom his behavior is
106:45 impulsive his biography is chaotic
106:48 precisely because of his need to
106:50 introduce uncertainty and risk in to
106:53 what he regards as stagnation or slow
106:56 death in other words routine narcissists
106:59 abhor
107:01 routines most interactions in the
107:03 workplace though are part of the Rat
107:07 they are
107:08 routine and thus constitute a reminder
107:11 to the narcissist that he is quote
107:14 unquote stagnating Shackled imprisoned
107:20 unappreciated unable to realize his tact
107:24 potential the routine workplace deflates
107:29 The Narcissist grandio
107:31 fantasies so narcissists do many
107:33 unnecessary wrong and even dangerous
107:35 things in pursuit of restoring and
107:38 stabilizing their inflated
107:41 self-image narcissist feel suffocated by
107:43 intimacy or by the constant reminders of
107:46 real nitty-gritty world out there it
107:50 reduces them it makes them realize the
107:53 the gap between their fantasies and
107:55 reality it is a threat to the balance of
107:59 their personality structures the false
108:01 self which is invented and confabulated
108:05 and concocted and the true self which is
108:07 dilapidated and
108:09 dysfunctional so they treat routine and
108:11 every everyone connected to that routine
108:13 as a
108:15 menace narcissist forever shift the
108:17 blame the pass the back and they engage
108:19 in cognitive dissonance they pathologize
108:22 the other by projecting on onto him or
108:26 her frailties weaknesses
108:30 failures they Foster feelings of guilt
108:33 and shame in in their employees and
108:37 their subordinates and use this guilt
108:39 and shame to manipulate them they debase
108:41 and
108:42 humiliate uh their stuff in order to
108:45 preserve their own sense of
108:48 superiority they're pathological liar
108:50 they think nothing or of confabulating
108:54 or or pathologically telling lies
108:57 because it is because their very self is
109:01 false they are their own
109:04 confabulation so what can you do with a
109:06 narcisstic boss and employer number One
109:09 never disagree with the narcissist or
109:11 contradict him number two never offer
109:13 The Narcissist any intimacy number three
109:16 look old and inspired by whatever
109:19 attribute Matters To The Narcissist for
109:22 instance if he regards himself to be a
109:25 professional pretend that you are dump
109:28 struck that you are amazed by his
109:30 professional achievements if he
109:32 considered himself good-look comment on
109:35 it
109:36 repeatedly never remind The Narcissist
109:38 of Life out there of the routine and if
109:42 you do connect it somehow to his sense
109:44 of grandiosity you can agiz even
109:48 ordering office supplies the most
109:50 mundane thing conceivable you you can
109:53 say for instance these are the best art
109:56 material any workplace is going to have
109:58 or we get these office supplies
110:00 exclusively because of you and your
110:02 connections and so on agiz the
110:06 narcissist do not make any comment which
110:08 might directly or indirectly impin on
110:10 the narcissist self-image omnipotence
110:12 Superior judgment omnience skills
110:15 capabilities professional record or even
110:18 omnipresence bad sentences start with I
110:22 think you overlooked this and that I
110:24 believe you made a mistake here you
110:26 don't know that do you know that etc etc
110:31 or you were not here
110:32 yesterday you cannot you should not
110:35 these kind of sentences are interpreted
110:37 by The Narcissist as rude impositions
110:39 and they react very badly to these
110:42 injurious
110:44 restrictions and and hints at their lack
110:46 of omnipotence and lack of
110:49 omnition manage your narcissistic B
110:52 notice patterns in his bullying is he
110:55 more aggressive on Monday Monday
110:57 mornings is he more open to suggestions
110:59 on Friday afternoons is he imitable to
111:02 flattery can you modify his conduct by
111:04 appealing to his morality Superior
111:06 knowledge good manace good looks
111:08 cosmopolitanism or upbringing
111:11 manipulating the narcissist is your is
111:13 the only way you as an employee can
111:16 survive in such uh contaminated and
111:20 tainted workplace
111:26 I'm Sam ban and I'm the author of
111:28 malignant self- love narcissism
111:31 Revisited this is the first in a series
111:33 of 10 videos about how to survive a
111:36 relationship with a narcissist and how
111:38 to cope with a
111:41 psychopath first it's important to
111:43 understand that there is nothing special
111:44 about the body language or behavior
111:46 patters of abusers who are not
111:49 narcissists and Psychopaths not all
111:51 abusers suffer from a personality
111:53 disorder regrettably most victims find
111:57 themselves trapped long before they have
112:00 become aware of any meaningful warning
112:02 sign also important to remember is that
112:05 abuse is a multifaceted phenomenon it is
112:08 a poisonous cocktail of control freakery
112:11 conforming to Social and cultural norms
112:14 and it includes latent sadism the abuser
112:18 seeks to subjugate his victims but also
112:20 to look good and save face in front of
112:23 family and peers many abusers simply
112:27 enjoy inflicting pain on helpless
112:30 victims my advice to you is to disengage
112:34 detach terminate the relationship get as
112:36 far away as you can but assuming that
112:39 you want to stay on with your abuser
112:42 assuming that you want to maintain this
112:44 sick relationship Mal treatment can to
112:47 some extent be mitigated ameliorated and
112:50 even avoided
112:52 abusers react to the slightest
112:55 provocation real or imagined and they
112:58 react with disproportionate wrath and
113:00 rage and often violence it is important
113:03 therefore never to openly and repeatedly
113:06 disagree with your abuser or contradict
113:08 him if you do your abuser is bound to
113:11 walk away but only after he has vilified
113:14 and harmed you in every which way he can
113:18 abusers feel threatened by real sharing
113:20 and by Common decision- making so never
113:23 offer your abuser any intimacy it is a
113:26 sure way of turning him off and his
113:28 aggression on abusers perceive intimacy
113:32 or the offer of intimacy as a Prelude to
113:36 manipulation internally they have a
113:38 dialogue that says actually a monologue
113:41 that says what is she getting it what
113:43 does she really want what is a hidden
113:47 agenda abusers are to some extent
113:50 narcissistic they have narcissistic
113:52 traits
113:52 so admire and adore them openly but do
113:56 not lie to them or exaggerate this would
113:59 be perceived by them as coming and will
114:01 provoke your abuser to Feats of paranoia
114:04 and jealousy look Ed by whatever matters
114:07 to your abuser for instance by his
114:09 professional achievements or by his good
114:11 looks or even by his success with other
114:13 women but don't overdo it the abuser
114:16 tries to transform his personal space
114:19 into the exact opposite of his real life
114:22 at home he is the master of a fantasy of
114:25 perfection and Harmony and the
114:27 Undisputed recipient of adulation and
114:29 obeisance any reminder that in reality
114:33 his life is a drab dead end subject to
114:36 routine that he is a failure or a tyrant
114:39 or a swindler or a wannabe sometimes
114:42 hated by his own oppressed family any
114:45 such reminder is likely to be met with
114:47 unbridled hostility and
114:50 worse never remind your abuser of Life
114:53 out there and if you do connect it
114:57 somehow to his sense of grandiosity
114:59 reassure him of the permanence of your
115:02 obedient and self-sacrificial love to
115:04 him do not make any comment which might
115:08 directly or indirectly impinge on his
115:10 self-image on his omnipotence judgment
115:12 omniscience skills capabilities
115:15 professional record or even
115:18 omnipresence he wishes to be Godlike
115:20 treat him as such listen attentively to
115:23 his words and never disagree contradict
115:26 him or offer your point of view you are
115:28 there merely to witness the abusers
115:30 train of thought not to derail it with
115:33 reminders of your separate and
115:35 autonomous existence be saintly be
115:38 patient be accommodating and endlessly
115:41 giving with nothing in return never let
115:44 your energy be depleted never let your
115:46 guard down your abuser is likely to be
115:50 provoked to extremes by by signs of your
115:53 personal autonomy and Independence so
115:55 you should conceal your thoughts and
115:56 plans make novert choices and express no
116:00 preferences never mention your emotions
116:02 your needs your earnings your wages your
116:05 profits your trust
116:07 money tell him how much you rely on him
116:10 to reach the right decisions for both of
116:12 you play dumb but not too dumb or it may
116:15 Pro provoke his
116:17 suspicions it is a thin line between
116:19 pleasing the abuser and rendering in
116:22 rendering the abuser a raving
116:25 paranoid never give your abuser cause to
116:29 doubt or suspect you surrender all
116:31 control to him deny yourself access to
116:34 property and funds do not socialize drop
116:37 all your friends and hobbies quit your
116:39 job and your studies and confine
116:41 yourself to your Abode your abuser is
116:44 bound to be virulently jealous and
116:47 suspect illicitly zones between you and
116:49 the least likely persons your family
116:51 included
116:53 he is likely to ACC accuse you even of
116:55 incest he envies the attention you give
116:57 to others even to your common Children
117:00 Place him on a pedestal and make sure he
117:03 notices how you ignore spurn and neglect
117:06 everyone else to your abuser you're an
117:09 object no matter how ostensibly revered
117:12 and cherished one hence the
117:16 battering he monopolizes your time and
117:19 your mind as well as your body beating
117:21 up on you is his way of saying I possess
117:24 you you're mine he makes for you even
117:27 the minutest choices what to wear what
117:31 to cook for dinner where when and where
117:33 to go out and with whom in extreme cases
117:37 your abuser regards even your body as
117:39 his to share with others if he sees
117:43 fit it is an honorous existence
117:46 consistently tip toying on
117:48 eggshells neither is it invariably
117:51 successful the submissive posture delays
117:54 the more egregious manifestations of
117:56 abuse but cannot prevent them
117:58 altogether choosing to live with an
118:00 abuser is like opting to share a cage
118:04 with a predator or a nest with a snake
118:07 no matter how domesticated nature is
118:09 bound to Prevail you are more likely
118:11 than not to end up as the abusers next
118:15 meal bear that in mind remember my
118:18 advice the only way to treat an abuser
118:21 is not to treat him at all to disengage
118:24 to go away and this is the topic of our
118:28 next
118:32 video I'm sakin and I'm the author of
118:35 malignant self-love narcissism
118:38 Revisited this is the second in a series
118:40 of videos about how to cope with a
118:42 narcissist or a psychopath in an
118:45 intimate relationship be sure to watch
118:47 the previous video today we will discuss
118:51 what I call the conflict
118:52 posture contrary to its name the
118:55 conflictive posture is actually about
118:57 avoiding Conflict by minimizing contact
119:00 and by insisting on your boundaries it
119:03 is about refusal to accept abusive
119:05 Behavior by demanding from the abuser
119:08 reasonably predictable and rational
119:11 actions and reactions it is about
119:14 respect for you and for your
119:16 predilections emotions needs wishes and
119:20 priorities a healthy relationship
119:22 requires Justice
119:25 proportionality you should reject or
119:27 ignore unjust and capricious
119:30 Behavior conflicts are inevitable even
119:33 in the most loving and mature bonds but
119:35 the Rules of Engagement are different in
119:37 a in a Leone in a relationship which
119:39 involves abusive conduct there in such a
119:43 sick relationship you must react in kind
119:46 you must you must let your abuser have a
119:49 taste of some of his own
119:51 medicine abusers are predators they are
119:54 attuned to the subtlest emotional cues
119:58 of their prey you never show your abuser
120:02 that you're afraid or that you are less
120:04 than Resolute the willingness to
120:06 negotiate is perceived by the abuser as
120:09 a weakness violent offenders and Bullies
120:12 Are insatiable do not succumb to
120:15 Blackmail or to emotional extortion once
120:18 you start compromising you won't see the
120:20 end of it
120:22 the abuser creates a shared CIS in
120:25 French a f with his victim it is a
120:30 narrative it's a confabulation a story
120:32 an overwhelming feeling of the two of us
120:35 against the whole hostile world out
120:37 there well don't buy into it feel free
120:40 to threaten him with legal measures feel
120:43 free to disengage if things get rough or
120:46 to involve law enforcement officials
120:49 judges friends neighbors and colleagues
120:53 the abused feel ashamed they feel
120:57 somehow responsible guilty and
120:59 blameworthy for their own maltreatment
121:02 the abuser is adept at instilling these
121:05 erroneous Notions in his victims he
121:07 passes The Bu he makes them feel
121:09 responsible for whatever has happened he
121:11 says openly look what you made me
121:15 do so above all do not keep your abuse a
121:19 secret secrecy is the abuse of his
121:22 weapon so you should share your story
121:24 with friends colleagues neighbors social
121:27 workers judges the police the media the
121:30 courts your minister anyone who would
121:32 listen don't make excuses for him don't
121:36 try to understand him do not empathize
121:38 with him for he surely does not
121:40 empathize with you he has no mercy on
121:42 you you in return do not bother to have
121:46 misplaced pity on him never give him a
121:49 second chance react with your full
121:51 arsenal to the first transgression teach
121:54 him a lesson he is unlikely to forget
121:57 make him go elsewhere for his sadistic
121:59 Pursuits or to offload his
122:02 frustrations the abuser sometimes uses
122:05 third parties his family his peers in
122:08 order to torture and torment and taunt
122:11 you well often the abusers proxies his
122:15 long arms are unaware of their role you
122:19 should expose him to them you should
122:22 inform them demonstrate to them how they
122:25 are being abused misused and plain use
122:28 by your abuser trap your abuser treat
122:31 him as he treats you involve other
122:33 people bring it into the open there is
122:36 nothing like sunshine to disinfect
122:40 abuse there are a few techniques which
122:43 work wonders with abusers some
122:45 psychologists recommend to treat repeat
122:48 offenders as one wood toddlers the Abus
122:52 is indeed a kind of um immature breath
122:56 he's dangerous he is endowed with
122:58 Privileges and capabilities of an adult
123:01 but he is still an immature brat with
123:03 temper
123:05 Tums sometimes ignoring these temper
123:08 tantrums is a wise policy but not always
123:11 and actually not very often and actually
123:14 definitely not as a
123:16 role the next video we will discuss
123:19 specific techniques and strategies for
123:22 dealing with narcissist and
123:30 Psychopaths I'm sakn and I'm the author
123:33 of malignant self-love narcissism
123:36 Revisited this is the third video in a
123:39 series about coping strategies and
123:41 techniques with narcissists and
123:43 psychopaths in Intimate
123:45 Relationships be sure to watch the rest
123:48 of the series today we will out
123:52 techniques of coping with narcissistic
123:55 and Psychopathic
123:57 abuses not all these techniques apply to
124:00 all
124:02 abusers listen to the other watch the
124:04 other videos in this series to decide
124:07 which technique to adopt in which
124:10 situation right now we're just going to
124:12 map the territory the first technique is
124:15 to mirror the abuser's behavior mirror
124:18 his actions repeat his words if for for
124:21 instance he is having a rage attack rage
124:24 back if he threatens threaten back and
124:27 credibly try to use the same language
124:29 the same content if he leaves the house
124:32 leave the house as well disappear on him
124:35 if he is suspicious act suspicious and
124:37 jealous be critical denigrating
124:40 humiliating go down to his
124:42 level the other technique is to frighten
124:45 him identify the vulnerabilities and
124:48 susceptibilities of the narcissistic and
124:50 Psychopathic abuser and strike repeated
124:52 escalating blows of them if a narcissist
124:55 is a secret or something he wishes to
124:57 conceal use your knowledge to threaten
125:00 him of course do so legally and only
125:03 after you have consulted an attorney
125:06 drop cryptic hints that there are
125:08 mysterious witnesses to the events and
125:10 recently revealed evidence do it
125:13 cleverly do it non-c committedly
125:15 gradually in an escalating Manner and of
125:17 course again in a legal way let him let
125:21 his imagination do the rest you don't
125:23 have to do much except utter a vague
125:25 reference make an ominous illusion
125:28 delineate a possible turn of events
125:30 needless to add that all these
125:32 activities have to be pursued legally
125:34 preferably through through the good
125:36 Services of law offices and in broad
125:39 daylight if done the wrong way they
125:41 might constitute extortion or blackmail
125:43 harassment and a host of other criminal
125:45 offenses they can also backfire and
125:48 provoke the narcissistic and
125:50 Psychopathic abuser in into violence and
125:53 aggression I repeat not all coping
125:57 techniques are applicable to all
125:58 situations and to all abusers listen and
126:02 watch the other videos in this series to
126:04 make up your mind which technique
126:06 applies when and to
126:08 whom the next technique is to lure the
126:11 abuser offer the abuser continued
126:14 narcissistic Supply you can make a
126:16 narcissist Do Anything by offering
126:18 withholding or threatening to withhold
126:20 narcissistic Supply ulation admiration
126:23 attention sex or subservience or even
126:27 the appearance of being
126:30 fearful play on his fears of Abandonment
126:33 is the next technique if nothing else
126:35 Works explicitly threaten to abandon
126:37 your abuser you can condition the threat
126:40 you can say if you don't do something or
126:42 if you do do something I will desert you
126:44 the narcissist perceives the following H
126:48 sentences as threats of Abandonment even
126:50 if they are not meant such he perceives
126:53 every confrontation every fundamental
126:55 disagreement or protracted
126:57 criticism as a sign of Abandonment he
127:01 perceives abandonment when he is
127:02 completely ignored or when you insist on
127:04 respect for your boundaries needs
127:06 emotions choices and preferences when
127:08 you retaliate for instance when you
127:10 shout back at him all these in the
127:12 narcissist mind equate
127:15 abandonment finally this is the
127:17 technique that I recommend the most and
127:20 always refuse use all contact be sure to
127:24 maintain as much contact with your
127:25 abuser as the courts counselors
127:28 mediators Garden guardians or law
127:30 enforcement officials mandate but no
127:32 more do not contravene the decisions of
127:35 the system work from inside the system
127:37 to change judgments evaluations or
127:39 rulings but never rebel against the
127:42 system the courts the police never
127:44 ignore them you will only turn the
127:46 system against you and against your in
127:48 interests and you will be labeled the
127:50 abuser instead of the victim but with
127:53 the exception of this minimum mandated
127:56 by the courts decline any and all
127:59 gratuitous contact with a narcissist or
128:03 psychopath do not respond to your
128:06 abusers pleading to romantic nostalgic
128:10 flattering or threatening email messages
128:12 return all the gifts that he sends you
128:15 refuseing mentry to your premises do not
128:17 even respond to the intercom do not talk
128:20 to him on the phone
128:22 hang up the minute you hear his voice
128:24 while making clear to him in a single
128:26 polite but firm sentence that you are
128:28 determined not to talk to him ever again
128:31 do not answer his letters do not visit
128:34 him on special occasions or in
128:35 emergencies when he's sick do not
128:37 respond to questions requests or please
128:40 forwarded to you through or via or by
128:43 Third parties disconnect from third
128:45 parties whom you know are spying on you
128:48 at your abusers behest do not discuss
128:50 with your abusers
128:52 your children do not gossip about your
128:54 abuser do not ask him for anything even
128:57 if you are in dire need and Dire Straits
128:59 when you are forced to meet your abuser
129:01 do not discuss your personal affairs or
129:03 raise them do not discuss his personal
129:06 affairs or raise them as well relegate
129:09 any inevitable contact with him when and
129:11 where possible to professionals to your
129:13 lawyer to your accountant to the police
129:16 to judge to judges or to court
129:20 officials but is there anything you can
129:22 do to avoid abuses and narcissist to
129:24 start with are there any warning signs
129:27 any identifying marks rules of thumb to
129:29 Shield you from the harrowing traumatic
129:31 experience of an abusive relationship we
129:34 have a special video which deals with
129:36 these issues be sure to watch
129:42 it I'm sney I'm the author of malignant
129:46 self love narcissism
129:49 Revisited no one should feel responsible
129:51 for the narcissist predicament to him
129:54 others hardly exist he so enmeshed in
129:57 himself and in the resulting misery of
130:00 this self- preoccupation that he notices
130:02 no one else other people are subjects on
130:06 which on which he projects his rage his
130:09 wrath is repressed and suppressed in
130:11 mutating aggression and finally his ill
130:14 disguised violence how should the
130:17 narcissist closest nearest and dearest
130:19 cope with his eccentric Val bories the
130:22 short answer is by abandoning him or at
130:25 least by threatening to abandon him the
130:27 threat to abandon the narcissist need
130:30 not be explicit or conditional for
130:31 instance if you don't do something or if
130:34 you do it I will ditch you it is aici
130:37 sufficient to confront the narcissist to
130:39 completely ignore the narcissist to
130:41 insist on respect for one's boundaries
130:43 and wishes or to shout back at him the
130:45 narcissist takes these signs of personal
130:48 autonomy to be a harbinger of impending
130:51 separation and he reacts with anxiety
130:55 the narcissist is tamed by the very same
130:57 weapons that he uses to subjugate others
131:00 the Spectre of being abandoned looms
131:02 large over everything else in the
131:05 narcissist mind every discordant note
131:09 presages Solitude the resulting
131:11 confrontation with his own self the
131:15 narcissis is a person who is irreparably
131:17 traumatized by the behavior of the most
131:19 important people in his life his parents
131:22 Role Models or even peers by being
131:25 capricious arbitrary and sadistically
131:27 judgmental these people molded The
131:30 Narcissist into an adult who fervently
131:32 and obsessively tries to recreate the
131:34 trauma in order this time around to
131:37 resolve it we call this a repetition
131:40 complex thus on the one hand The
131:42 Narcissist feels that his freedom
131:44 depends upon reenacting these early
131:47 experiences on the other hand the
131:49 narcissist is terrified by this Prospect
131:52 realizing that he is doomed to go
131:53 through the same traumas over and over
131:55 again the narcissist distances himself
131:58 by using his aggression to alienate
132:01 humiliate and in general to be
132:02 emotionally
132:03 absent this Behavior brings about the
132:06 very consequence that the narcissist saw
132:08 dreads abandonment but this way at least
132:11 the narcissist is able to tell himself
132:13 and others that he was the one who had
132:16 fostered the separation that it was
132:18 fully his choice and that he was is not
132:21 surprised by it the truth is the truth
132:23 is that governed by his internal demons
132:26 The Narcissist has no real Choice the
132:28 Dismal future of his relationships is
132:31 pre-ordained the narcissist is a binary
132:34 person the carrot is also the stick in
132:37 his case if he gets too close to someone
132:39 emotionally he fears ultimate and
132:42 inevitable abandonment he thus
132:44 immediately distances himself acts cruy
132:47 and brings about the very abandonment
132:49 that he had feared in the first place in
132:52 this Paradox lies the key to coping with
132:55 a narcissist if for instance he is
132:57 having a rage attack rage back this will
133:00 provoke in him fears of being abandoned
133:02 and the resulting calm will be so total
133:05 that it might seem to you Eerie
133:08 narcissists are known for these sudden
133:10 tectonic shifts in mood and in Behavior
133:13 mirror The Narcissist actions repeat his
133:16 words if he threatens threaten back
133:19 incredibly try to use the same language
133:21 and content if he leaves the house leave
133:24 the house as well disappear on him if he
133:26 is suspicious act suspicious be critical
133:30 denigrating humiliating go down to his
133:32 level because that's the only way to
133:34 penetrate his thick defenses faced with
133:37 his own Mirror Image The Narcissist
133:40 always
133:41 recoils we must not forget that the
133:43 narcissist behaves the way he does in
133:45 order to engender and encourage
133:48 abandonment when mirrored The Narcissist
133:50 Dre imminent and impending desertion
133:53 which is the inevitable result of his
133:55 actions and words this Prospect so
133:57 terrifies him that it induces in him an
134:00 incredible alteration of conduct he
134:02 instantly succumbs and obsequiously
134:04 tries to make amends moving from one
134:07 cold bitter cynical misanthropic cruel
134:09 and sadistic Pole to another he becomes
134:12 warm loving fuzzy and gulfy emotional
134:16 modin and
134:18 sakarin the other coping strategy is of
134:21 of course to do abandoned to to give up
134:23 on the
134:24 narcissist dump him and go about
134:27 reconstructing your own life very few
134:29 people deserve the kind of investment
134:32 that is an absolute prerequisite to a
134:34 life with a narcissist the cope with a
134:36 narcissist is a full-time energy and
134:39 emotional emotion draining job which
134:41 reduces people around the narcissist to
134:43 insecure nervous wrecks who deserves
134:46 such a sacrifice definitely not the
134:48 narcissist no one to my mind
134:51 not even the most brilliant Charming
134:53 breathtaking and sve narcissist has the
134:56 right to demand such self-
134:59 sacrifice the Glamour and trickery
135:02 werein and underneath them a monster
135:05 lurs which irreversibly and adversely
135:08 influences the lives of those around him
135:11 for the
135:12 worse narcissists are encourage and
135:15 notoriously difficult to change thus
135:18 trying to modify them to heal them to
135:21 cure them with love is doomed to failure
135:24 you should either accept them as they
135:25 are or avoid them altogether if one
135:28 accepts a narcissist as he is one should
135:30 cater to his needs his needs are part of
135:33 what he is would you have ignored a
135:36 physical handicap in someone would you
135:38 have not assisted a quadri plgic the
135:41 narcissist is an emotional he
135:44 needs constant adulation he cannot help
135:46 it so if one chooses to accept narcissis
135:49 to live with him to remain in an
135:51 intimate relationship with him it is a
135:53 package deal all his needs demands
135:58 requirements
136:03 included I'm sney I'm the author of
136:06 malignant self-love narcissism
136:09 Revisited what should you do if your
136:12 husband is a narcissist and he having an
136:15 extramarital affair cheating on you and
136:18 betraying your trust
136:21 well the answer is that narcissist are
136:23 people who fail to maintain a St stable
136:26 sense of self-worth very often somatic
136:29 narcissists these are narcissists who
136:31 use their bodies and their sexuality to
136:33 secure narcissistic Supply tend to get
136:36 involved in extramarital Affairs the new
136:39 conquests sexual conquests sustain their
136:42 grandio fantasies and they distorted and
136:45 unrealistic
136:46 self-image it is therefore nigh
136:49 impossible to alter this particular
136:51 behavior of a somatic narcissist sexual
136:54 interactions serve as a constant
136:56 reliable easy to obtain narcissistic
136:59 Supply it is the only source of such
137:02 Supply if the narcissist is not cerebral
137:05 in other words if he doesn't rely on his
137:07 in intellect intelligence or
137:08 professional achievements from
137:09 narcissistic Supply pure somatic
137:12 narcissists deemphasize their
137:15 intellectual capabilities in favor of
137:17 their physical attributes sexual prior
137:21 an ability to conquer the opposite sex
137:24 or the same sex in case they're
137:28 homosexuals well one way of coping with
137:30 this coping with the situation is that
137:32 you should set up rigid strict and very
137:35 well- defined Rules of
137:37 Engagement ideally all contacts between
137:40 your spouse and his lover should be
137:42 immediately and irrevocably severed but
137:44 this is usually too much to ask for so
137:47 you should make crystal clear when is
137:49 she allowed to call whether she's
137:51 allowed to write to him at all and in
137:53 which circumstances what are the
137:55 subjects she is allowed to Broach in her
137:57 correspondence and phone calls when is
138:00 he allowed to see her and what other
138:02 modes of interaction between them are
138:04 permissible clear and painful sanctions
138:08 must be defined in case the above rules
138:11 are violated both rules and sanctions
138:14 must be applied rigorously and
138:17 mercilessly and must be set in writing
138:20 in unequivocal terms fairness is
138:22 important but so is rigorousness and
138:27 strictness the problem is that the
138:29 narcissist never really separates from
138:31 these sources of narcissistic Supply
138:33 until and unless they cease to be
138:36 sources narcissists never really say
138:39 goodbye The Narcissist lover is likely
138:42 to still have an emotional hold on him
138:44 long after the affair is officially over
138:47 the husband must first he have his Day
138:49 of Reckoning with
138:51 her help your narcissistic mate or
138:54 husband or partner intimate partner by
138:56 telling him what will be the price that
138:58 he stands to pay if he does not obey the
139:00 rules and sanctions that you have agreed
139:02 upon tell him that you cannot live like
139:05 this any longer that if he does not get
139:07 rid of his of this presence of The
139:09 Echoes of his past really he will be
139:12 squandering his present he will be
139:14 forfeiting you don't be afraid to lose
139:17 him if he prefers this woman to you it
139:19 is important for you to to know it if he
139:21 prefers you to her your nightmare is
139:24 over if you insist on staying with a
139:26 somatic narcissist you must also be
139:29 prepared to serve as a source of
139:31 narcissistic Supply an alternative to
139:33 the supply provided by his lovers you
139:36 must brace yourself serving as a source
139:39 of narcissistic Supply is an honorous
139:41 task full-time job and a very ungrateful
139:44 one at De The Narcissist thirst for
139:47 adulation admiration worship approval
139:50 and attention can never be quenched it
139:53 is a cian mind numbing effort which
139:56 Heralds only additional demands and
139:58 disgruntled critical humiliating tyrants
140:02 by the
140:03 narcissist that you are afraid to
140:05 confront reality is normal you are
140:07 afraid to set clear Alternatives you're
140:10 afraid that he will abandon you you're
140:12 afraid that he will prefer her to you
140:15 and you may may well be right but if
140:18 this is the case and you go on living
140:19 with him and ing yourself it is
140:22 unhealthy you're are living a deception
140:25 if you if you found it difficult to
140:28 confront the fact that it is all over
140:29 between you that your relationship is an
140:32 empty shell that your husband or
140:34 intimate partner is with another woman
140:36 in the fullest sense of the word do not
140:38 hesitate to seek help from professionals
140:41 and nonprofessionals alike friends are a
140:44 great source of of support and
140:46 assistance but do not let the situation
140:49 fester in into psychological gandin
140:53 amputate now while you
140:58 can my name is s vagy i the author of
141:02 malignant self- lover narcissism
141:05 Revisited narcissists are often
141:08 vindictive they stalk they harass they
141:11 intimidate and basically there are only
141:14 two ways of coping with vindictive
141:17 narcissist either to frighten them or to
141:20 lure them
141:21 start with frightening them narcissists
141:24 live in a constant state of repressed
141:28 aggression Envy hatred and
141:32 rage they firmly believe that everyone
141:35 else is precisely like them as a result
141:38 they are paranoid suspicious scared
141:42 labil and
141:43 unpredictable frightening the narcissist
141:46 is a powerful behavior modification tool
141:49 if sufficiently deterred
141:51 The Narcissist promptly disengages gives
141:53 up everything he fought for sometimes
141:56 makes
141:57 amends to act effectively one has to
142:00 identify the vulnerabilities and
142:03 susceptibilities of the narcissist the
142:05 chinks in his armor and strike repeated
142:09 escalating blows at them until the
142:11 narcissist lets go and vanishes example
142:16 if the narcissist has a secret one
142:18 should use this fact to threaten him
142:21 one should drop cryptic hints that there
142:23 are mysterious witnesses to the events
142:26 and recently revealed evidence the
142:29 narcissis is a very vivid imagination
142:32 let his imagination do the work for
142:35 you the narcissist may have been
142:37 involved in tax evasion in malpractice
142:40 child abuse in infidelity and adultery
142:43 there are so many possibilities which
142:45 offer a rich vein of attack if done
142:48 cleverly non-committed
142:51 gradually and increasingly The
142:53 Narcissist crumbles disengages detaches
142:56 and disappears he lowers his profile
142:59 thoroughly in the hope of avoiding hurt
143:02 pain and criminal
143:05 persecution most narcissists have been
143:08 known to disown and abandon a whole
143:11 pathological narcissistic space in other
143:14 words they have been known to relocate
143:16 in response to a well focused campaign
143:19 by their victims
143:21 thus the narcissist may leave town
143:23 change his job abandon the field of
143:26 professional interest and avoid friends
143:29 and acquaintances only to relieve the
143:31 unrelenting pressure exerted on him by
143:34 his
143:35 victims I repeat most of the drama takes
143:38 place in the paranoid Mind Of The
143:40 Narcissist his imagination runs amch he
143:43 finds himself snarled by horrifying
143:46 scenarios pursued by the viest
143:48 certainties that form in his mind in his
143:50 fertile fibral mind the narcissist is
143:54 his own worst persecutor or prosecutor
143:58 you don't have to do much except utter a
144:01 vague reference make an ominous illusion
144:05 delineate a possible turn of events The
144:08 Narcissist will do the rest for you he
144:10 is like a small child in the dark
144:12 generating the very monsters that
144:14 paralyze him with fear needless to say
144:18 emphasize and repeat that all the these
144:20 activities have to be pursued legally
144:22 preferably through the good Services of
144:24 law offices and in broad daylight done
144:27 the wrong way they might constitute
144:30 extortion or blackmail harassment and a
144:33 host of other criminal offenses be very
144:35 careful because you would be treading a
144:38 thin line between legality and
144:40 illegality should you choose to frighten
144:43 The
144:44 Narcissist the alternative is of course
144:46 to lure the vindictive
144:48 narcissist the other way to neutralize
144:51 him is to offer him continued
144:53 narcissistic Supply until the war is
144:56 over and had been won by you dazzled by
144:59 the drug of narcissistic Supply The
145:00 Narcissist immediately becomes tamed
145:03 forgets his vindictiveness and
145:04 triumphantly takes over his new property
145:07 and
145:08 territory under the influence of
145:10 narcissistic Supply the narcissist is
145:12 unable to tell when he is being
145:14 manipulated he's blind dumb and deaf you
145:18 can make the narcissist do anything by
145:20 offering withholding or threatening to
145:22 withhold narcissistic Supply adulation
145:26 admiration attention sex or subservience
145:31 are your are the tools the weapons in
145:34 Your Arsenal in coping with vindictive
145:38 dangerous stalkers and
145:45 paranoids my name is s and I'm the
145:48 author of malignant self- love now ISM
145:51 Revisited today we will discuss
145:54 stalkers stalkers are not made of one
145:58 cloth some of them are psychopaths other
146:01 stalkers are schizoids narcissist
146:03 paranoids or an ad mixture of these
146:06 unsavory mental health
146:09 disorders stalkers harass their victims
146:12 because they are lonely or because it is
146:14 fun these are latent sades or because
146:17 they cannot help it they're clinging
146:19 codependent or for myor different other
146:22 reasons clearly coping techniques suited
146:26 to one type of stalker May backfire or
146:30 prove to be futile with another the only
146:33 denominator common to all bullying
146:35 stalkers is their pent up rage stalker
146:41 is angry at his or her targets and hates
146:44 them he perceives his victims as
146:48 unnecessarily and childishly
146:51 frustrating the aim of stalking is to
146:54 educate the victim and to punish her
146:57 hence a catch22 of coping with stalkers
147:01 the standard and good advice is to avoid
147:04 all contact with your stalker to ignore
147:06 him even as you take
147:08 precautions but being evaded only
147:11 inflames the stalker's Wrath and
147:13 enhances his frustration the more the
147:16 stalker feels sidelined ignored and
147:18 stonewalled the more persistent he
147:20 becomes the more intrusive and the more
147:23 aggressive so what to
147:25 do it is essential therefore to First
147:29 identify the type of abuser you're faced
147:32 with start with the
147:34 erotomaniac this kind of stalker
147:36 believes that he's in love with you and
147:39 that regardless of overwhelming evidence
147:41 to the contrary the feeling is
147:44 reciprocated in other words he believes
147:47 that you are in love with him he
147:49 interprets everything you do or refrain
147:51 from doing as coded messages confessing
147:55 your Eternal Devotion to him and to your
147:59 relationships otom Maniacs are lonely
148:03 socially Ina people they may also be
148:06 people with whom you have been involved
148:07 romantically your former spouse a former
148:10 boyfriend or even an one night
148:14 stand they could also be colleagues or
148:18 co-workers the best coping strategy
148:20 within Roto Mania is to ignore him do
148:24 not communicate with him or even
148:26 acknowledge his existence the
148:28 erotomaniac clutches its straws and
148:31 often suffers from ideas of reference he
148:35 tends to blow out of proportion every
148:37 comment or gesture of his loved one so
148:42 avoid contact do not talk to him return
148:46 his gifts unopen refuse to discuss with
148:49 him anything or discuss him with others
148:52 delete his
148:55 correspondence then there is a
148:57 narcissistic stalker he feels entitled
149:00 to your time attention admiration and
149:03 resources he interprets every rejection
149:06 is an act of aggression which leads to a
149:08 narcissistic injury he reacts with
149:12 sustained rage and
149:13 vindictiveness he can turn violent
149:16 because he feels omnipotent and immune
149:18 to the consequences of his actions
149:20 your best coping strategy with a
149:22 narcissistic stalker is to make clear
149:25 that you want no further contact with
149:26 him and that this decision is not
149:29 personal be firm do not hesitate to
149:32 inform him that you hold him responsible
149:34 for his talking bullying and harassment
149:37 and that you will take all necessary
149:39 steps to protect yourself narcissists at
149:43 BS are cowards and are easily
149:45 intimidated luckily they never get
149:48 emotionally attached to their pre and so
149:50 they can move on with relative
149:53 ease then there is the paranoid stoker
149:56 this is by far the most dangerous of the
149:59 Lord he lives in an inaccessible world
150:02 of his own making he cannot be risen
150:05 with he cannot be cadol he thrives on
150:09 threats anxiety and fear he distorts
150:11 every communication to feed his
150:14 persecutory delusion and enhance his
150:18 anxiety paranoid is unpredictable and
150:21 there is no typical scenario but
150:24 experience shows that you can minimize
150:26 the dang danger to yourself and to your
150:28 household by taking some basic steps if
150:31 at all possible put as much physical
150:33 distance as you can between yourself and
150:36 the paranoid stalker change address
150:39 phone number email accounts cell phone
150:41 number en list the kids in a in a new
150:44 different School find a new job get a
150:45 new credit card open a new bank account
150:48 move States if you have to to not inform
150:51 your paranoid ex about your whereabouts
150:53 and about your new life you may have to
150:56 make painful painful sacrifices such as
150:58 minimize contacts even with your family
151:01 and best
151:02 friends and even with all these
151:04 precautions your abusive X is likely to
151:07 find you Furious that you have fled and
151:09 evaded him raging at your newfound
151:12 existence suspicious and resentful of
151:14 your freedom and personal autonomy
151:17 violence is more than likely to ensue
151:20 unless deterred paranoid former spouses
151:22 tend to be harmful even in some cases
151:26 lethal so be prepared alert to your
151:29 local Law Enforcement Officers check out
151:32 your neighborhood Domestic Violence
151:33 Shelter consider owning a gun for
151:36 self-defense or at the very least a stum
151:38 gun or mustard spray carry these with
151:40 you at all times keep them close by and
151:43 accessible even when you're asleep or in
151:46 your
151:47 bathroom youro Maniac stock
151:50 can last many years do not let down your
151:54 God even if you haven't heard from him
151:56 for a while stalker stalkers leave
151:59 traces they tend for instance to scout
152:02 the territory before they make their
152:04 move a typical stalker invades his or
152:06 her victim's privacy a few times long a
152:10 few times long before the crucial and
152:12 injurious
152:14 encounter so is your computer being
152:16 tampered with is someone downloading
152:18 your email is has anyone been in your
152:20 house while you were away any signs of
152:23 breaking an entry missing things
152:25 atypical disorder or even too much
152:27 order is your post being delivered
152:30 erratically some of the envelopes having
152:32 been opened and then raled mysterious
152:34 phone calls abruptly disconnected when
152:36 you pick up your stalker
152:39 May Scout your home sitting in a in a
152:44 vehicle opposite your
152:46 doorstep in all these if all these signs
152:49 if some of these signs exist your
152:50 stalker must have dropped by and is
152:53 monitoring you notice any unusual
152:56 pattern any strange event any weird
152:58 occurrence someone is driving by your
153:01 house morning and evening a new Gardener
153:03 or maintenanc man came by in your
153:05 absence someone is making inquiries
153:08 about you and your family maybe it's
153:10 time to move on teach your children to
153:12 avoid your paranoid X and to report to
153:15 you immediately any contact is made with
153:17 them abusive bullies of strike where it
153:21 hurts most it once's children explain to
153:24 your children the danger without being
153:26 unduly alarmed alarming make a
153:29 distinction between others whom they can
153:31 trust and your abusive former spouse or
153:34 ex whom they should
153:37 avoid ignore your gut reactions and
153:40 impulses because they are often
153:43 misleading sometimes the stress is so
153:45 honorous and so infuriating that you
153:47 feel like striking back at the stalker
153:49 so so don't do it don't play his game he
153:52 is better at it than you are and is
153:54 likely to defeat you instead unleash the
153:57 full force of the law whenever you get
154:00 the chance to do so restraining orders
154:03 peace bombs spells in jail and frequent
154:06 visits from the police tend to check the
154:08 abusers violent and intrusive
154:11 conduct the other behavioral extreme is
154:13 equally futile and
154:15 counterproductive do not try to buy
154:17 Peace by appeasing your abuser
154:20 submissiveness and attempts to risen
154:22 with him only wet the stalker appetite
154:26 he regards both as contable weaknesses
154:29 vulnerabilities that he can exploit you
154:32 cannot communicate with a paranoid
154:33 because he is likely to distort
154:35 everything that you say to support his
154:37 persecutory
154:39 delusions he has a sense of entitlement
154:41 he has grandio fantasies you cannot
154:43 appeal to his emotions or reason he has
154:46 none he at least no positive emot
154:51 remember your abusive and paranoid
154:53 former partner blames it all on you as
154:56 far as he concerned you recklessly and
154:59 unscrupulously wrecked a wonderful thing
155:01 that you both had G is vengeful seething
155:06 and prone to bouts of uncontrol and
155:08 extreme aggression don't listen to those
155:11 who tell you to take it easy hundreds of
155:14 thousands of women paid with their lives
155:16 for hitting this idiotic advice do not
155:19 take easy do not calm down do be hyper
155:23 Vigilant your paranoid stalker is
155:25 inordinately dangerous and more likely
155:28 than not he is with you for a long time
155:30 to
155:31 come finally there is the antisocial or
155:34 Psychopathic stalker though ruthless and
155:37 typically violent the psychopath is a
155:39 calculating machine how to maximize his
155:42 gratification and personal profit
155:45 Psychopaths lack empathy and may even be
155:48 sadistic but understand well and
155:50 instantly the language of carrots and
155:52 sticks so your best scoping strategy is
155:54 to convince your psychopath that messing
155:57 with your life or with your nearest is
155:59 going to cost him dearly do not threaten
156:02 him Simply Be unequivocal about your
156:05 desire to be left in peace and your
156:07 intentions to involve the law should he
156:10 stalk Harris or threaten you give him a
156:13 choice between being left alone and
156:15 becoming the target uh or or becoming
156:18 the target of multiple arrests
156:20 restraining orders and wor take extreme
156:23 precautions at all times and meet him
156:26 only in public
156:32 places my name is sakin and I'm the
156:35 author of malignant self-love narcissism
156:40 revision like borderlines narcissists
156:44 have something called abandonment
156:46 anxiety they are terrified by the
156:48 thought of being abandon
156:50 they are like children who are afraid
156:53 that their parents when they are out of
156:55 the room will never come back
156:57 again they lack object
157:00 constancy in other words narcissists
157:03 believe that when when people are out of
157:06 sight they are also out of mind they do
157:10 not believe in permanence in reliable
157:14 long-term relationships in bonding in
157:17 attachment and they don't believe in
157:19 these things because they've never
157:21 experienced them either as children or
157:24 as
157:25 adults okay so then narcissis have
157:28 abandoned anxiety Then why do they
157:31 abused their nearest and dearest their
157:34 so-called loved
157:36 ones after all if you abuse somebody the
157:40 chances of being abandoned by that
157:43 person are much higher if you abuse your
157:46 wife she's likely to walk away
157:50 if you maltreat your girlfriend she's
157:52 likely to find another
157:54 boyfriend why
157:56 abuse abuse ostensibly and intuitively
158:00 should increase the chances of
158:02 Abandonment and therefore increase the
158:05 narcissist abandonment
158:08 anxiety yet all narcissists without a
158:11 single exception
158:13 abuse granted they abuse in different
158:16 ways some of them abuse verbally some of
158:19 them some of them use a brutal sense of
158:21 humor or brutal honesty there are
158:23 million ways to abuse and multifarious
158:26 forms of
158:27 aggression but whatever the narcissist
158:30 and whoever the narcissist narcissists
158:33 always
158:34 abuse and especially those they are
158:38 supposed to be intimate
158:41 with well here's a counterintuitive
158:45 Paradox abuse serves to decrease
158:50 The Narcissist abandonment anxiety it
158:52 reduces the anxiety it humiliates it it
158:55 alleviates
158:58 it how
159:00 come well first of all when you abuse
159:03 someone when you devalue someone you
159:05 feel Superior to them they the re at the
159:10 receiving end the recipients of abuse
159:13 are inferior to you the abuser abusers
159:17 are in position of authority they do out
159:20 of you so devaluation leads to a sense
159:24 of superiority and superiority restores
159:28 The Narcissist sense of grandiosity
159:31 restores the grandio fantasy The
159:34 Narrative that underlies the narcissist
159:37 inflated sense of
159:39 self but why would the narcissist need
159:42 to restore his grandiosity where did it
159:44 go why who ruined it the abandonment
159:48 anxiety
159:49 The Narcissist has abandonment
159:52 anxiety and Superior beings perfect
159:57 beings Godlike beings should not feel
160:01 anxiety the very fact that the
160:03 narcissist feels anxiety
160:06 undermines his sense of grandiosity and
160:09 his sense of perfection and superiority
160:11 and Godlike qualities so it goes like
160:14 that the narcissist feels abandonment
160:17 anxiety this challenge es his sense of
160:20 perfection and
160:21 superiority he then devalues his spouse
160:25 or girlfriend or intimate partner or
160:27 significant other by abusing and
160:29 devaluing her he feels again Superior by
160:33 feeling Superior he restores his
160:35 grandiosity and by restoring his
160:38 grandiosity he eliminates or at the very
160:41 least reduces his
160:44 anxiety Point number
160:47 one but abuse has other function
160:50 for example
160:53 preemption The Narcissist
160:55 assumes that he will always be abandoned
160:59 loss is
161:01 guaranteed things will go badly
161:05 relationships will break up and
161:07 terminate The Narcissist assumes that he
161:10 will be abandoned hence his abandonment
161:13 anxiety and so if he is anyhow going to
161:16 be abandoned he might as well control
161:18 the process
161:20 he might as well bring about his own
161:23 abandonment he must as he might as well
161:26 precipitate the abandonment cause it
161:28 lead to it generate It Foster it if he
161:33 does then he is in
161:35 control If he if he were to be abandoned
161:39 because of his own doing if the
161:41 abandonment was of his own making then
161:44 he had he in his eyes had initiated his
161:47 aband abandonment
161:49 he is in
161:50 control he is not
161:53 abandoned he is simply fulfilling a goal
161:57 or a Target so preemption restoring a
162:01 sense of control over circumstances and
162:05 O over other people inducing abandonment
162:08 is a way of lying to yourself and saying
162:11 well actually I have not been abandoned
162:14 I sought it I wanted it this is called
162:17 cognitive dissonance
162:20 the third function of abusing others is
162:24 uncovering the truth the nist assumes
162:28 that people are faking it that they are
162:31 not as good as their word that there are
162:35 hidden agendas in at play that his wife
162:40 or his girlfriend or his intimate
162:42 partner or his significant other are
162:45 just pretending to love him claim cl to
162:49 be loyal claiming to be supportive but
162:54 when push comes to shove their true face
162:57 will be revealed The Mask will fall and
163:00 they will be
163:01 uncovered as who they are disloyal
163:05 cheating Unfaithful unreliable
163:09 unpredictable so how do you prove this
163:11 how do you prove this working hypothesis
163:15 by abusing people when the narcissist
163:17 abuses this significant other he is
163:20 testing
163:22 her he pushes her to the corner and he
163:25 wants to see how will she react will she
163:28 for example abandon him will she cheat
163:31 on him with another man will she walk
163:34 away will she attack will she
163:40 Counterattack he fets out information
163:43 about her abuse is a kind of probing
163:47 it's kind of test or testing process
163:51 it's as though he The Narcissist had put
163:54 his significant other in a lab and then
163:58 he is conducting all kinds of tests
164:01 laboratory tests abuse is a is a
164:05 controlled experiment at revealing the
164:07 truth about your intimate partner is she
164:11 as
164:13 steadfast as she claims is she as loyal
164:17 will she still be there even even if I'm
164:19 a jerk even if I'm abusing her
164:23 maltreating her humiliating her
164:25 insulting
164:27 her privately and in public how far can
164:30 I go to what extent can I annihilate her
164:34 to what extend can I extinguish her as
164:37 an autonomous entity and still she would
164:40 s she still she would be
164:43 around so it's a test and finally of
164:46 course abuse is a form of behavior
164:50 modification abuse is a signal it's a
164:53 communication mode by abusing someone
164:57 you're telling them that you're unhappy
164:59 with their
165:00 behavior and you are signaling to them
165:02 sometimes violently and always
165:03 aggressively that they should alter
165:06 their behavior if they want to not be
165:09 abused the thing is that abuse Works
165:12 abuse actually works most of the time
165:15 most spouses intimate partners and
165:18 significant others would alter and
165:21 modify their behavior in order to
165:23 minimize
165:24 abuse so abuse is an efficacious
165:28 efficient method for modifying your
165:31 partner's Behavior because it works it
165:34 is so commonplace among nisses and
165:37 Psychopaths okay so how do you do how do
165:40 you deal with it what are the coping
165:44 Styles which have proven to be efficient
165:47 with protracted and limited abuse abuse
165:51 is a feature of the relationship is a
165:53 fixture is an attribute of the
165:57 relationship well there are five
165:59 essentially cor STS the first one is
166:03 submissiveness by being submissive by
166:07 accepting and adhering to every rule
166:10 every capricious move every every
166:13 arbitrary decision every criticism by
166:16 avoiding disagreement by being conflict
166:19 averse you can minimize or reduce at
166:23 least the incidence the frequency and
166:27 the prevalence of abuse in the
166:30 relationship
166:32 submiss the second coping style is
166:34 exactly the opposite it's conflictive it
166:37 is the counterdependent coping sty it is
166:40 a refusal to accept the abuse refusal to
166:42 accept Authority challenging the abuser
166:45 arguing disagreeing criticizing
166:48 provoking fights raising him that also
166:52 works to some extent in reducing the
166:56 abuse ultimately the abuser would
167:00 Institute a policy of no contact and
167:03 would go away would become absent either
167:07 physically or emotionally and definitely
167:10 conversationally if the partner the
167:13 intimate part causes the abuser pain
167:17 every time he abuses
167:19 makes the abuser pay a price for his
167:23 misconduct the abuser very much like a
167:27 dog in paavo's experiments would learn
167:30 not to abuse but that is of course a
167:33 conflictive sense which means that
167:36 nothing much is left of the
167:38 relationship except constant conflict
167:41 constant Warfare constant
167:45 fighting and then we have mirroring
167:48 mirroring is a third copy St mirroring
167:50 doesn't mean that you do exactly what
167:54 the abuser does he shouts you shout he
167:56 says a word you repeat it and so that's
167:59 not
167:59 mirroring mirroring simply means that
168:03 you hurl back you throw back at the
168:06 abuser his verbiage his sentences the
168:09 words he chooses and so on and so forth
168:12 you throw them back at him rearranged in
168:15 a way to provoke a certain dynamic
168:19 so for example if the abuser
168:22 says um I would like to go and
168:26 do something and you don't want to go
168:29 and do something if you say no I don't
168:33 want to go up you know if you want to go
168:34 by yourself or something you're likely
168:37 to be abused criticized you know you
168:39 never do anything with me you are you no
168:42 longer interested in me you don't want
168:44 to be with me I knew I could not trust
168:46 you this relationship is going to hell
168:48 you are ruining it for both of us etc
168:50 etc etc the well-known
168:53 refrain one possibility is mirroring
168:57 reflecting these sentences back at the
169:00 abuser but in a way which would create
169:02 in the abuser a dynamic for example
169:06 would create in him abandonment anxiety
169:09 so by saying well you may well be right
169:12 you know the relationship is is really
169:14 going to hell and we seem to disagree on
169:17 many many things and and so on that's
169:19 precisely why I want to go out is are
169:22 actually you're repeating this verbiage
169:24 but by repeating it in a certain order
169:27 you're provoking abandoned
169:30 anxiety as you provoke in the abuser
169:32 negative emotions such as anxiety or
169:34 fear or depression and so on so forth
169:37 gradually the abuse or the incidence of
169:40 abuse will decline mirroring is a very
169:43 complex coping style because you need to
169:46 fully understand the abuser psychology
169:49 and you need to to know how to rearrange
169:51 his abuse and then reflect the abuse to
169:56 him in highly precise ways it's
169:59 Precision art if you do that if you're
170:02 Adept at mirroring you can achieve
170:04 surprising results including an up to
170:07 the point of the abuse disappearing
170:10 completely and then there is collusion
170:13 collusion is actually to amplify the
170:15 abuse up to the point of caricature
170:19 so if the abuser says you know you're so
170:21 stupid you don't think about what you're
170:24 saying you're always wrong and so on so
170:26 forth in a collusive or collusion coping
170:30 style you would say you know what you're
170:33 right I'm really very very stupid you
170:35 are so intelligent you're so decisive
170:37 you're so strong you're always so right
170:39 Etc you would exaggerate you you
170:42 overemphasize his words to the point of
170:46 rendering them humorous and caricis to
170:50 the point of rendering the abuser a
170:53 cartoon
170:55 figure and this would usually unsettle
170:59 the abuser drive him back he would be
171:01 able then to look to see himself you
171:04 would be reflecting him and he would be
171:06 able to see himself and this usually
171:09 would have positive
171:11 feedback uh on his behavior that you
171:14 would be creating a feedback loop which
171:16 would reduce his abusive behaviors the
171:20 last coping style which is not exactly
171:23 one of my favorites and should be
171:26 advised against except perhaps as the
171:28 last result is
171:31 displacement directing the negative
171:33 energy of abuse from yourself at someone
171:35 else so if the abuser begins to attack
171:38 you criticize you disagree with you
171:40 vehemently and aggressively humiliate
171:42 you chastise you etc etc you can then
171:46 direct this negative energy this rage
171:50 this you know discomfort you can direct
171:53 all these negative emotions at someone
171:56 else that you can both denigrate and
171:59 demean and criticize and so on someone
172:02 you agree on another SC or another
172:06 victim so but this is both an immoral
172:11 choice and could backfire in the sense
172:14 that you would gradually become an
172:16 extension of the abuser and an abuser
172:18 yourself self so displacement is a kind
172:21 of shared psychosis a situation where
172:24 you and the abuser form a diet form a
172:27 kind of account of abusing other people
172:31 it's not recommended of course but it's
172:33 also a coping style I had to mention and
172:36 it does happen more frequently than you
172:38 know when an abused spouse teams up with
172:43 her abuser to abuse third party abuse by
172:47 proxy