Prof Sam Vaknin
Prof Sam Vaknin
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How We Read Other People's Minds

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Watch Your Unconscious, Fantasies - Not Narcissist's

RTL TV Loneliness and Anxiety Epidemic (Hungarian)

Cues: body language (incl. facial microexpressions, eye pupils), voice (tone), body odors

Watch my videos on nature of empathy

Anxiolytic Fallacy of isomorphism: if we look the same, we are the same

Mirror neurons: When it comes to mental illness, neuroscience is about as valid as astrology or alchemy. It deals with correlations, is not validated normatively, and is grandiosely ill-founded.

Empathy is a self-contained internal set of processes, triggered by the presence and self-reporting of another person.

It involves two misperceptions:

1. That the internal experience of empathy is actually external (has to do with the other person); and

2. That the experience of empathy is altruistic and focused on the other person when in reality it revolves mostly around emotional self-regulation (avoidance of shame, guilt) and cognitive processing. Empathy has all the hallmarks of – mostly healthy - narcissism.

Intersubjectivity

Mentalization

Theory of Mind

Internal Working Model of Attachment

Incorporation, introjection, internalization, identification

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Watch Your Unconscious FantasiesAnxiety Epidemic Hungarian CuesAnxiolytic FallacyIntersubjectivity Mentalization TheoryMind Internal Working ModelAttachment IncorporationBuy MOSTAmazon Store

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