Channel Four showed a series of documentaries on mental illness earlier in the year, one of which discussed Narcissistic Personality Disorder (another was on erotomania, but like a fool I forgot to tape it). Featured in the documentary was one Sam Vaknin, who was supposedly a "Level 9" narcissist, exhibiting all nine features of NPD, but, fortunately for himself and others, was also a "self-aware" narcissist and had consequently exiled himself to the Czech Republic where (supposedly) he could do no harm.
Quite how self-aware Mr. Vaknin is remains to be determeined. Check out the comments and identities of the reviewers of his book, Malignant Self-Love, at Amazon and judge for yourself.
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ah this book wasn't about the 'self-love' i thought it was about? I thought it was goign to be more about wrist cramps, runnign out of tissues and chaffing...
Indeed. And even in Ireland we don't regard that kind of self-love as malignant anymore.
Hmm. I'm not sure about Monaghan though.
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