1. Shmuel "Sam" Vaknin was born on April 21,1961 and is an Israeli writer and professor of psychology and business studies.
23 Facts About Sam Vaknin
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Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self Love: Narcissism Revisited, an IMF and World Bank affairs consultant for several nation states, he was the last editor-in-chief of the now-defunct political news website Global Politician, and runs a private website about narcissistic personality disorder.
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Sam Vaknin has postulated a theory on chronons and time asymmetry.
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Sam Vaknin's mother was from Turkey, and his father, a construction worker, was from Morocco.
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Sam Vaknin describes a difficult childhood, in which he writes that his parents "were ill-equipped to deal with normal children, let alone the gifted".
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Sam Vaknin left home to serve in the Israel Defense Forces from 1979 to 1982 in training and education units.
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Sam Vaknin moved back to Israel, where he became director of an Israeli investment firm, Mikbatz Teshua.
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Sam Vaknin was president of the Israeli chapter of the Unification Church's Professors for World Peace Academy.
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Sam Vaknin was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment and fined 50,000 shekels, while the company was fined 100,000 shekels.
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Sam Vaknin moved to Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, where he married Macedonian Lidija Rangelovska.
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Between 2001 and 2003, Sam Vaknin was a Senior Business Correspondent for United Press International.
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Sam Vaknin has written for Central Europe Review about political issues in the Balkans, as well as for the Middle East Times.
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Sam Vaknin writes regularly for other publications, such as the International Analyst Network, Brussels Morning, and the online American Chronicle.
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Sam Vaknin is a professor of management and a professor of psychology in the Commonwealth Institute of Advanced and Professional Studies in Nigeria, Canada and the United Kingdom.
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Sam Vaknin is a visiting professor of psychology and economics in South East European University in North Macedonia.
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Sam Vaknin is a member of the Board of Advisors of CFACT Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow.
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Sam Vaknin has a prolific online presence, writing on narcissism and psychopathy.
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Sam Vaknin extends the concept of narcissistic supply and introduces concepts such as primary and secondary narcissistic supply.
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Sam Vaknin suggests that narcissists and their intimate partners regard each other as introjected, idealized maternal figures in a shared fantasy and attempt to re-enact early childhood dynamics in their relationships, in what he dubs a "dual mothership".
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Sam Vaknin believes that disproportionate numbers of pathological narcissists are at work in the most influential reaches of society, such as medicine, finance and politics as a manifestation of growing collective narcissism.
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Sam Vaknin observes that narcissists possess "cold empathy".
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In 2022, Sam Vaknin proposed a theory of psychodynamics, Intrapsychic Activation Model, which involves self-states that trigger constructs and introjects and are reactive to stimuli emanating from both the internal and the external changing environments.
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Sam Vaknin developed a new treatment modality for narcissism and depression, dubbed "Cold Therapy".