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Con Artists

Sam Vaknin is the author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" and 8 other books about personality disorders and abuse in relationships with narcissists and psychopaths. He is the owner and moderator of support forums and the first person to have written about the Narcissistic Personality disorder (NPD) online (in 1997). He invented many of the terms currently used to describe the disorder and its effects on family, the workplace, and in various professions.

Where to go to ask Dr. Sam questions. This is intended as Questions to Dr. Vaknin and his responses

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Con Artists

Postby bmonaghan123 on Sat Oct 17, 2009 9:58 am

Dr. Vaknin:
Are NPDs con artists? Is it a form of Biplar Disorder?

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Re: Con Artists

Postby samvaknin on Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:47 am

Con artistry is not a mental illness, so it cannot be Bipolar or any other disorder. It like asking whether plumbing or hairdressing is a personality disorder.

Read these:

Narcissists and Mood Disorders

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/na ... ssage/5067

Some con artists are psychopaths or narcissists:

The Narcissist as Liar and Con-man

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/na ... ssage/4951

The Narcissist and Psychopath as Criminals

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/na ... ssage/5003

The Narcissist is Above the Law

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/na ... ssage/4983

Guilt? What guilt?

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/na ... ssage/4931
Encyclopedia of Narcissism and Psychopathy:

http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/siteindex.html

Buy 9 books about narcissists, psychopaths, and abusive relationships - click on this link:

http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com/thebook.html
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