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Narcissistic Personality Disorder Symptoms

• grandiosity / exaggeration
• fantastic thinking / romantic
• believes special / unique
• requires admiration
• entitled / demanding
• exploitive / manipulative
• lacks empathy
• envious / jealous
• arrogant / haughty

Narcissism links:

• Narcissism FAQ
• Wilkipedia on NPD
• Wilkipedia on Narcissism
• Sam Vaknin’s site
• Bullies and Narcissism
• Joanna Ashmun site
• National Public Radio
• Alice Miller’s site
• Albert Bernstein's site
• N-Courage site  

Letters to Sam Vaknin

There are in fact two things, science and opinion;

the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates, Law, Book 1

Stanford Professor Londa Schiebinger invented the word Agnology - the Cultural Production Of Ignorance. Epistolmolgy is the study of why we know what we know, Agnology is the study of why we don't know things. Why does our culture deliberately avoid or push a side knowledge? Why do we believe nonsense? Who controls information, and what mechanisms work at the individual level to control knowledge.

Examples of Agnology:

The AIDS epidemic: ignorance and sexual prejudice.

Russian Health care:

For centuries the Russian medical establishment believed that germs just appeared, therefore sterilization and Lister were ignored, resulting in terrible health: one reason Tuberculosis is rampant. See the book Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health by Laurie Garrett

 

Global warming:

 

Mental health: