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Available to the authors of the recent spate of financial frauds in the United States with contempt for its employees and shareholders alike - not to mention other stakeholders. Psychologists often distant diagnosed as "malignant narcissistic patient."
Narcissists are driven by the need to uphold and maintain a false self - and construction concocted, grandiose, and demanding psychological model of narcissistic personality disorder. Expects false self in the world to win "narcissistic supply" - adulation, admiration, or even notoriety and infamy. Generally considered any interest in narcissistic is better than darkness.

The false self primarily with fantasies of perfection, grandeur, brilliance, infallibility, immunity, significance, omnipotence, omnipresence and knowledge. Be a narcissist is to be convinced of the destiny of a great, inevitable personal. Narcissistic and running with a perfect love, and built magnificent revolutionary theories and scientific, and composition or the creation or painting of the greatest works of art and the creation of a new school of thought and achieve fabulous wealth and the restructuring of the nation or block, and so on. Narcissistic not to set realistic goals for himself. Always occupied with fantasies of uniqueness, record breaking, or breathtaking achievements. Verbosity reflects this trend with him.

The truth is, of course, quite different, leading to a "gap greatness." Are not met the demands of achievements false narcissistic self, standing, wealth, prestige, sexual prowess, or knowledge. Narcissistic grandeur and a sense of right and equal, on an equal footing with its achievements.

To bridge the gap size, and malignant narcissists stations (Tuesday) shortcuts. This often leads to cheating.

Narcissist cares only match. What matters is the interface of wealth and social status that accompanies and narcissistic supply. Opulence Dennis Kozlowski Tyco disguised witness to. Media attention exacerbates dependence narcissistic and it is imperative to go to ever extreme and wild to ensure an uninterrupted supply from this source.

Narcissist lacks empathy - the ability to put oneself in the shoes of others. He does not recognize boundaries - personal, corporate, or legal. Is everything and everyone has a few tools, accessories, unconditionally and uncomplainingly available objects in his quest for narcissistic gratification.

This makes nonsense narcissistic exploitation. He uses, abuses, devalues, and discards even his loved ones in the most cooling mode. Narcissistic and value-driven, obsessed with the need to reduce anxiety and organize her sense of self chassis ensuring a steady supply of his drug - attention. Elimination of U.S. officials without remorse when they raided their employees' pension funds - as did Robert Maxwell a generation earlier in Britain.

Narcissistic convinced of his superiority - cerebral or physical. In his mind, he is paralyzed by Gulliver lot of narrow-minded and envious Lilliputians. The dotcom "new economy" was infested with "visions" with a contemptuous attitude towards the mundane: profits, business cycles, conservative economists and journalists doubtful, and analysts warn.

Even now, deep and fully aware of the narcissistic dependence on others - the attention and admiration and applause, and confirmation. He despises himself for being depends on this way. He hates people the same way a drug addict hates his pattern. He wants to "put in place", humiliate them, show them how inadequate and incomplete, it is compared to the royal ego and the little he craves or needs them.

Narcissistic himself regards as an expensive gift, a gift to his company, to his family, to his neighbors, to his colleagues, to his country. This belief in the importance of his money makes him feel entitled to special treatment, special privileges, and the results of the concessions, submission, immediate gratification, cringe, and indulgence. It also makes him feel immune to human laws and somehow divinely protected and insulated from the inevitable consequences of his deeds and misdeeds.

Narcissistic self-destruction plays the role of "bad guy" (or "bad girl"). But even in the traditional social roles cartoonishly exaggerated by narcissistic attention. Men are likely to emphasize intellect, power, aggression, money, or social status. Narcissistic women are likely to emphasize body, looks, charm, sexuality, feminine "traits", homemaking, children and child care.

Punish wayward narcissist is a veritable catch-22.

Imprisonment is useless as a deterrent if it leads not only to draw attention to the narcissist. Being famous is second best to being famous - and far better than being ignored. The only way to effectively punish a narcissist is to withhold narcissistic supply from him and thus to prevent him from becoming a notorious celebrity.

Given a sufficient amount of media exposure, book contracts, talk shows, lectures, and public attention - the narcissist may even consider horror in this whole affair to be emotionally rewarding. To the narcissist, freedom, wealth and social status, family, career - every means to an end. And the end is attention. He could care insurance to be the big bad wolf - the narcissist transforms itself into a single hesitation. Lord Archer, for example, seems to be a positive joy in the media circus provoked by his prison diary.

Narcissistic not victimize, plunder and other terrorist acts cold, calculating way. Done casually, as an expression of his true personality. To be truly "guilty" one must have the intention, to deliberate, to contemplate one options then choose one of the cases. Narcissistic not one of these.

And generates a sentence in a boil surprise, pain and anger. Narcissist stunned by society's insistence that he should be held accountable and punished accordingly. Feels wronged, baffled, injured, the victim of bias, discrimination and injustice. He rebels and rages.

It depends on the diffusion of magical thinking, the narcissist may feel besieged by the great powers and cosmic forces and intrinsically ominous. He may develop compulsive rituals to ward off this "bad", unwarranted, and the effects of persecution.

Narcissistic, often because of personal development are stunted child to participate in magical thinking. Feels omnipotent, that there is no such thing can be done if the check or in his mind. Seems omniscient - he rarely admits to ignorance and intuition and intellect fonts objective data.

Thus, we believe that meditation narcissistic arrogance is more important and more efficient (not to mention easier to accomplish) to obtain knowledge of the systematic study of outside sources of information, according to rigorous programs and tedious. Narcissists are "inspired" and they despise technocrats hampered.

To some extent, they feel omnipresent because they are famous or about to become famous or their products are manufactured or sold in the world. Immersed in delusions of grandeur, they firmly believe that their actions have - or will have - a significant impact not only their business, but their country, or even the human race. Having mastered the manipulation of the human environment - they are convinced that they will always "get away with it." Develop pride and a false sense of immunity.

Narcissistic immunity is the feeling (false), jackals narcissistic, it insensitive to the consequences of his actions, and it will not be done by it arises own decisions, opinions, beliefs, deeds and misdeeds, acts, the inaction, or membership of certain groups, it is perfect and punishment, that, magically, he is protected and be miraculously saved at the last moment. Thus, courage, simplicity and transparency of the fraud and corporate looting in 1990. Narcissists rarely bother to cover their tracks, it's so great disdain and conviction that they are above the law and people have enough money.

What are the sources of this realistic assessment of situations and events?

So the correct answer is childish violence and trauma. Not only sexual abuse or sexual harassment tobacco. Asphyxia, doting, pampering more indulgence, treating the child as an extension of the parent company, and not within the limits of the child, and by increasing the child with excessive expectations are also forms of ill- treatments.

Child reacts by constructing false self that has everything it takes to prevail: unlimited and readily available these authorities Harry Potter and wisdom. The false self, this Superman, is indifferent to abuse and punishment. In this way, child restraint real protection against the harsh reality of a child.

This artificial separation between low misfit (but not punishable) true self and punishable (but invulnerable) false self is an effective mechanism. It isolates the child from the unjust, the world emotionally unstable dangerous it occupies. But at the same time, promote a false sense of "nothing can happen to me, because I'm not there, I do not have to be punished, so I am immune to punishment ".

And also resulted in the comfort of false immunity of a narcissistic sense of law. In his grandiose delusions and narcissistic unique gift to humanity, fragile and precious object. In addition, each narcissist is convinced that this uniqueness is immediately distinctive - and it gives him special rights. Narcissist feels protected by a cosmological law relating to "endangered."

He is convinced that his future contribution to others - his firm, his country, humanity - and should not exempt it from the ordinary daily activities, tasks boring, repetitive tasks, personal effort, organizer and investment of resources and efforts, laws and regulations, social conventions, and so on.

Right to narcissistic "special treatment": high living standards and provide food continuously and directly to their needs, and eliminate any friction with the humdrum and the routine, and forgiveness of each track to capture his sins Quick and privileges (higher education, or in his encounters with bureaucracies, for instance). Repression, says the narcissist, is for ordinary people, which does not require a great loss to humanity.

And has exceptional capabilities narcissists seduce, convince, seduce and convince. Many of them are gifted orators and intellectually endowed. Many of them work in politics, media, business and fashion, the arts, medicine, or business, and serve as religious leaders.

Because of their position in society, charisma, or their ability to find a scapegoat does get an exemption because they many times. After repeatedly "I went with it" - to develop the theory of personal immunity, founded upon some kind of "system" cosmic community and even some people are above punishment.

But there are fourth and simple explanation. Narcissist lacks self-awareness. Divorced from his real self, unable to empathize (to understand what it is like to be someone else), unwilling to limit its actions to respond to the feelings and needs of others - a narcissist is in a constant state of dream.

To the narcissist, his life is unreal, like watching a movie unfold independently. Narcissist is a mere spectator, mildly interested, never to a large extent in some cases. Is it not "own" his actions. Therefore, we can not understand why they should be punished, is when it feels seriously injured.

Convinced that the narcissist is destined for great things - that he refuses to accept setbacks, failures and punishments. He considered temporary, and the results of someone else's errors, as part of the future mythology increase in power / brilliance / wealth / ideal love, etc. is punishable transform energy and valuable resources to the task of everyone important to accomplishing his mission in life.

Narcissist is satisfactory envious of people and believes that they are equally envious of him. It paranoia, ready, ready to ward off an imminent attack. A sentence to the narcissist is a major surprise and a nuisance but it also confirms a suspicion persecuted for it. A proven powerful forces arrayed against him.

He said that people, envious of his achievements and humiliated by him. It is a threat to the established order. When you need to pay for his sins, and narcissistic always disdainful and bitter and feels misunderstood by his followers.

Cookbooks, corporate fraud, bending the rules (GAAP or other), and the problems under the carpet spread, and more promising, making grandiose claims (the "vision thing") - are hallmarks of a narcissistic action. When social cues and norms encourage such behavior rather than bend - in other words, when such behavior abundance narcissistic sexy - and thus improve the style and become rigid and inflexible. Even when circumstances change, the narcissist finds it difficult to adapt, shed his actions, and replace it with a new one. And trapped in his past success. He becomes the fraudster.

But pathological narcissism is not an isolated phenomenon. Embedded in our contemporary culture. Western efforts to narcissistic civilization. Values ​​that defends narcissistic and punished alternative value systems. From a young age, children learn to avoid self-criticism, to deceive their capabilities and performance, to feel right, and exploitation of others.

As Lilian Katz said in his paper on the importance of "the distinction between self-esteem and narcissism: Implications for the application", published by the Information Centre of educational resources, is not clear in many cases, the line between promoting self-esteem and promote narcissism by teachers and parents.

As Christopher Lasch finger in a "culture of narcissism" and Theodore Millon in his books about personality disorders, in American society and narcissistic. Can be contentious across the maturity violin feeling. On the basis of these consumers false common and collective "I can do what I want and possess everything I desire if I apply myself to it" and the pathological envy it improves.

Not surprisingly, narcissistic disorders are more common among men than among women. This may be because narcissism compatible with patriarchal norms of society and the dominant spirit of capitalism. Ambition, achievements, hierarchy, ruthlessness, drive - both social values ​​and narcissistic male qualities. Speculated social thinkers such as Lasch above that modern American culture - a selfish - increases the incidence of narcissistic personality disorders.

Otto Kernberg, a senior researcher of personality disorders, confirmed Lasch's intuition: "Society can make serious psychological problems that exist in a certain percentage of the population, and it seems that, at least superficially appropriate. "

In "Personality Disorders in Modern Life" their book, Theodore Millon and Roger Davis state, as a matter of fact is that narcissism sick once the preserve of "goods and the rich" and that "it seems that gained fame in the late twentieth century. " Narcissism, according to them, may be associated with higher levels "of Maslow's hierarchy of needs ... Individuals in less fortunate countries .. are too busy trying (to survive) ... to be arrogant and grandiose. "

They - like Lasch before them - attribute pathological narcissism to "a society emphasizes individualism and self-gratification at the expense of society, namely the United States." Assert that the disorder is more common in certain professions with "star power" or respect. "Nobody in the culture, the narcissist is' God's gift to the world." In a collectivist society, the narcissist is a gift from God "to the collective. '

Millon quotes Warren and Caponi in "the role of culture in the development of narcissistic personality disorder in America, Japan and Denmark":

"Narcissistic determination for individual structures (in each community) ... are rather autonomous and independent ... (In collective cultures) narcissistic configurations of self ... We denote self-esteem derived from strong identification with the reputation and honor of the family, groups, and others in hierarchical relationships. '

However, there are Narcissists evil among subsistence farmers in Africa, nomads in the Sinai desert, day laborers in east Europe, and intellectuals and socialites in Manhattan. Malignant narcissism is dominated everyone and independent of culture and society. Certainly, although pathologically narcissistic and experience shows depends on the specifics of societies and cultures.

In some cultures, and encourage, and in some cases eliminated. In some communities, and directed against minorities - in other cases be considered to involve paranoia. In collectivist societies, it is expected to be placed on the collective, each community is characteristic of the individual.

After that, can be described as families, organizations, ethnic groups, churches, and entire nations, even as safely "narcissistic" or "egocentric satisfactory"? We can talk about "corporate culture of narcissism"?

Human populations - states, firms, households, institutions, political parties, cliques, bands - have a life and a character all their own. The Assembly or affiliation of the members, and a more cohesive and conformist dynamics within the group, and more or persecution many enemies, competitors, or adversaries, the more intense physical and emotional experience of individuals is composed of more Strong language and the language and history - perhaps more severe and confirmation flag common diseases.

This complete and comprehensive pathology that reflects the behavior of each member. It is characteristics - mental structure - though often implicit or latent. A explanatory and predictive powers. It is repetitive and constant - a pattern of behavior and emotions distorted perception confused stopped. And often vehemently denied.