Second-brain harvest · 13 August 2026

Vankin & Grannon

One hundred and fifty cited quotes across three sources, fifty from Vaknin's lectures, fifty from Grannon's transcripts, fifty from Vaknin's book, every one checked against its source before it was allowed onto this page.

Both men were already in the second brain. Neither was findable by name. Sam Vaknin appears as Vankin in Brandon's own spelling, and Richard Grannon's two transcripts never carry his surname at all, so a search for either name returned almost nothing while roughly seventy thousand words of their speech sat in the iCloud TextEdit folder.

How each speaker was identified

The vampire thread

Grannon's framing of the narcissistic bond is a bite that promises eternal life and delivers conversion instead. It is the clearest single idea in either corpus, and it is why the material files under vampire rather than under his name.

You trade your agency, your sovereignty, for the mirror world, for the shared fantasy, for the Matrix. You trade it off. It's a kind of, you're going to die. It's like the vampire: like, I'm going to bite you but you won't die, you'll be a vampire like me and you'll experience eternal life. That's the payoff. That's the covert contract.

Richard Grannon · Integration course

You give up all illusions. The fantasy is now dead, dead, dead. You know, what did they used to do with vampires? We've got the mythos that they just used to drive a stake through the heart.

Richard Grannon · livestream Q&A

Sam Vaknin, fifty quotes

Ranked top 50 of 153 scored spans. The lecture is auto-captioned, so the original has no punctuation and no capitals. Span boundaries and the opening capital are editorial, and the wording is untouched.

1. But how you reacted to what had happened especially emotionally you can never actually remember any fact any event any person nothing you remembered yourself in these environments in these situations in these circumstancesoffset 2335 · 34 words
2. But you can do exactly the same to him actually narcissists are far more susceptible to entraining than you areoffset 35413 · 20 words
3. But when you're using your mind your mind is you and you are your mind it's a kind of recursive self-referential look that complicates matters considerablyoffset 1351 · 26 words
4. So a narcissist and his flying monkeys are likely to claim that they have been victimized by you you are the perpetrator you are the abuseroffset 75245 · 26 words
5. So talented you are so amazing you're so powerful aggrandize the narcissist and then implicitly challenge the aggrandized image tell the narcissist I assume only you can do this or it never occurred tooffset 37548 · 34 words
6. So this is the fourth the third category of sentences sentences which express helplessness and imply that the only solution is the narcissist intervention the narcissist is Sor The Narcissist help the narcissist adviceoffset 41270 · 34 words
7. Because when the narcissism trains you and brainwashes you he has to overcome the fact that you have been in touch with reality until you have met him the narcissist has never been inoffset 35525 · 34 words
8. So without further Ado hack your mind into healing and success by S vaknin the author of malignant self-love narcissism Revisited a former visiting professor of psychology and currently on the faculty of seapsoffset 727 · 34 words
9. So memory is constructed on the Fly each and every time and each and every time it's not the same it's never the sameoffset 2772 · 24 words
10. So singing is a great way to reduce anxiety and depression unfortunately when you are anxious and depressed the last thing of on your mind is to singoffset 15974 · 28 words
11. Now this is the first element in ENT trining and brainwashing this isoffset 43088 · 13 words
12. So dramatically so radically and so extremely that the narcissist campaign against you will never recoveroffset 69442 · 16 words
13. So the less intelligent you are the Dumber you are excuse me for the expression the more likely to you are to believe or to be convinced that you're actually super smart and intelligentoffset 10978 · 34 words
14. So am I responsible for being a negative nasty mean s o I'm not quite sure actually science says that I'm not gets me off the hook which is the way I like itoffset 16374 · 34 words
15. For example you could say I know you're capable of doing this I know only you are capable of doing this it never occurred to me that you couldn't do this you areoffset 37386 · 33 words
16. Now the only correct response to a smear campaign is no response I repeat this the only correct response to a smear campaign is no response there is no other type of response tooffset 61447 · 34 words
17. Now of course always embed nuggets of Truth in the information that you provide to the Flying Monkey Never Lie 100% of the time never provide 100% unadulterated unmitigated disinformation always make sure thatoffset 69548 · 34 words
18. The second element sorry in entraining and brainwashing The Narcissist to remind youoffset 43158 · 13 words
19. Because you get trapped in a cycle that is never broken I encourage you to hack your mind for healing and for Success the resources you need all inside what do you think aoffset 28737 · 34 words
20. Now what does it mean it means that the snapshot the Avatar of you your representation in the narcissist mind is a trojan horse it's what we call in Computing a back door itoffset 30577 · 34 words
21. Because it's a fantasy it's not subject to the laws of physics or nature it is not an extension or a derivative of reality a fantasy is a consensual story it's a piece ofoffset 33393 · 34 words
22. Because the narcissist has disrupted episodic memory the narcissist is likely to believe you that the ID was his that the request came from him and that the wish was has always been hisoffset 40416 · 34 words
23. So immersed in so engaged in acting in pretending in faking this is the opportunity to obtain real information about The Narcissist The Narcissist whereabouts The Narcissist plans The Narcissist emotions The Narcissist Thoughtsoffset 70496 · 34 words
24. But also physiologically and you are liable to develop very very nasty diseases such as diabetes too or even have a stroke it's bad to undersleep if you oversleepoffset 23705 · 29 words
25. But the truth is exactly the opposite psychologist discovered recently that short lines make us read more slowly lines of 100 characters are the idealoffset 26263 · 25 words
26. So they are very very naive and gullible and vulnerable to manipulation they're actually the victims of melanismoffset 39881 · 18 words
27. The first thing you recall are your emotions your effects your reactions to the events not the memory of what had happenedoffset 2212 · 22 words
28. Because this is a cognitive distortion known as grandiosity you're perceiving reality wrongly in order to inflate a fantastic self-image that is counterfactualoffset 12365 · 23 words
29. So it's much easier to delude and mislead The Narcissist to cause the narcissist to completely lose reality testing it's much easieroffset 35814 · 22 words
30. The human mind is the most complex object in the entire universe it is a super computer it's a device that is wondrous and miraculous and amazing and unfortunately largely unexplored psychology is supposedoffset 0 · 34 words
31. But it is far from it and the self-help industry keeps spewing nonsense that is at best irrelevant and at worst harmful today I'm going to teach you 20 odd hacks tips advice onoffset 242 · 34 words
32. But just high enough to see inside the top Rim try it at home okay that's an example of how memory what we call memory is very far from scientifically neutral and objective it'soffset 5134 · 34 words
33. So here's the hack whenever you think that you are in the right whenever you're telling yourself wow I'm I'm super creative I'm smart I'm intelligent whenever you give yourself compliments within the confinesoffset 11603 · 34 words
34. But the truth is anything The Narcissist can do you can do better I will explain in a minute why you know the famous song an Oakley anything you can do I can dooffset 29802 · 34 words
35. So go to the narcissist and simply State the fact that the idea you're about to share the request you're about to make the wish you're about to expound on actually came from theoffset 39994 · 34 words
36. Because narcissist find the Savior rescuer healer fixer function to be irresistible and finally the fourth category of sentences is the mass psychogenic sentences or the cult-like sentences it's the sentences that say theoffset 41635 · 34 words
37. Now the next type of narrative is the triumphant antagonistic narrative A Narrative of Justice restored omnipotence affirmed and confirmed the narcissist prevails Superior and supreme his worth is unveiled and discovered he isoffset 45568 · 34 words
38. So that they come to your defense against the narcissist leverage the peer group put all these four together and you are definitely in the position to do to the narcissist what he isoffset 49820 · 34 words
39. So repetition and ENT trining are the secret of brainwashing and indoctrination no wonder most religions all religions actually and most political ideologies use slogans mantras specific words that have to be repeated everyoffset 52081 · 34 words
40. So the whole setup is actually a surrogate family by belonging to the group with its brainwashing program with with its indoctrination with its propaganda by belonging to this group you actually end upoffset 56667 · 34 words
41. The second course of action is known as a smear campaign smear campaign is the persistent structured spreading of misinformation lies exaggerations and half truth about a specific person in this case The Narcissistoffset 61165 · 34 words
42. However they may be where you cannot get rid of the narcissist or his flying monkeys situations where you're essentially a hostage of circumstances dependencies which are legal legally encoded common children Financial Arrangementsoffset 63867 · 34 words
43. So narcissists never use a single flying monkey usually there are many of them ask the Flying Monkey dour Flying Monkey in touch with you to introduce you to the others listen to theiroffset 73512 · 34 words
44. Because the brainwashing narrative the indoctrination schemata allow you to fall in love with yourself allow you to experience self love in a safe environment an environment that is accepting we'll come to itoffset 53096 · 34 words
45. The first type is when the narcissist breaks up devalues and discards his earthw pseudo intimate partner within the shared fantasy or when the narcissist himself has been discarded devalued and dumped by saidoffset 60554 · 34 words
46. In other words it is imbued with emotional residues or artifacts or Recollections we acquire our first language from mother and fatheroffset 9195 · 22 words
47. But especially from mother and so it comes with a baggage of emotions and defense mechanisms such as splitting and projectionoffset 9330 · 21 words
48. But you should force yourself to do this you will see the outcomes almost instantaneouslyoffset 16124 · 15 words
49. But here's the breaking news sarcasm makes you smarter when you're being sarcastic you're improving the health of your brainoffset 18730 · 20 words
50. But at the same time you're improving the health of your brain and it's a major common sign of high intelligence intelligent people are sarcastic meoffset 19021 · 26 words

Richard Grannon, fifty quotes

Ranked top 50 of 292 scored spans across both files. The livestream is punctuated and splits on real sentence boundaries; the course is auto-captioned and splits on discourse markers.

1. So there are fractures what is the essence of the pain of narcissistic abuseIntegration course · offset 2239 · 14 words
2. This would mean narcissistic abuse obsession is not narcissistic abuse obsession if we use Adler you are NOT obsessed and we try and think in terms of systems thinking, and we use a systemic model.livestream Q&A · offset 15955 · 35 words
3. So the first one that we're going to deal with that's reasonably challenging is the pain of narcissistic abuse and the damage is created by a fractioning of the self don't worry I'm goingIntegration course · offset 1837 · 34 words
4. So if you have you wake up and your life is a living misery you cannot do anything you can't motivate yourself you make you can't make decisions when you make decisions they're theIntegration course · offset 3084 · 34 words
5. Now live inside of you you are colonized you're infected and then there is the authentic self and the battle that they have call him caller on Checker social media what you check aIntegration course · offset 23532 · 34 words
6. YES LOVE, but dont be Mitya Karamazov Don't fling yourself into some bipolar manic dysregulated mire-infused state thinking that that person is the solution to all your problems.livestream Q&A · offset 38041 · 28 words
7. As long as in your mind, you're passing like the aesthetic from the person and you're not fantasizing of a transcendence that cannot manifest.livestream Q&A · offset 41440 · 24 words
8. The only thing I ever saw in my whole life that offered anything along these lines The I Ching is the only directive life narrative Ive ever seen was in the "I Ching" where they fused Confucianism and Daoism.livestream Q&A · offset 10240 · 39 words
9. Because you always did, because you are not just you.livestream Q&A · offset 17794 · 10 words
10. The you that is you, the you that is the replication of a replication of a replication of a replication of a replication of a replication going back a very fucking long way always did.livestream Q&A · offset 20595 · 35 words
11. And then on top of that you have the fairly unique discreet set of symptoms that are around narcissistic abuse, particularly where you don't know yourself, you can't make good decisions about reality, and so on and so forth.livestream Q&A · offset 0 · 39 words
12. It is like, I mean, it is like having delusions and illusions shattered is always a bit, it's always a bit painful, but I think if you, if you resonate with the truth of that, you're like, "Okay, this is actually true.livestream Q&A · offset 44280 · 42 words
13. So the question goes around the narcissistic abuse communities how do you heal the narcissist and I would always say well it's none of your business that's another human being they've got to goIntegration course · offset 14892 · 34 words
14. Now you may not have had a traumatic childhood you may not have been raised in a narcissistically abusive family you may never have felt like you're anywhere on the Spectrum for autism orIntegration course · offset 18132 · 34 words
15. Look at the client and look at the narcissistic abuse timeline and say where were you where were you you are important you you matter oh The Narcissist he was this he was thatIntegration course · offset 25507 · 34 words
16. So, despite all that, I'm always like, "Why are people still chatting on this, "you know, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 years later?livestream Q&A · offset 225 · 23 words
17. A goose, a goose 6,000 years ago is the same dumb fucking goose as today.livestream Q&A · offset 12916 · 15 words
18. You are not just, you know, I don't know, 1980 to whenever like people fucking live to 2060.livestream Q&A · offset 17848 · 18 words
19. It doesn't mean that it means more evil will come into the world.livestream Q&A · offset 20127 · 13 words
20. It means that we can despair and cry and then take action and do something about it.livestream Q&A · offset 20193 · 17 words
21. Let's prepare, let's prepare for evil because there are bad people out there and they do terrible things to completely innocent human beings for nothing more than their pleasure.livestream Q&A · offset 20348 · 29 words
22. Arrogance isn't either, but being proud of who you are and of what you've done is a virtue, that's master morality.livestream Q&A · offset 21814 · 21 words
23. There's fucking in that time and in that place, you think that's the only story that was knocking around the Mediterranean, Egypt, and the Middle East?livestream Q&A · offset 24426 · 26 words
24. You can't do psychology and therapy and talky talky bobbidee, bobbidee you can't...livestream Q&A · offset 26059 · 13 words
25. "And you have to shove very boring data into your brain "for years and give up a decade of your life.livestream Q&A · offset 32513 · 21 words
26. I know what a fuck up you are Oprah's fantasy because I know what a fuck up I am.livestream Q&A · offset 33096 · 19 words
27. I'm not, let's not create some weird new punitive ideology where like the clean ones have nothing of their past, but the shit ones are in the past.livestream Q&A · offset 33974 · 28 words
28. There is no transcendence through porn, sex, drugs, fame, money, what else are we into in this culture?livestream Q&A · offset 35509 · 18 words
29. It's not always sexual relationships, Love and fake transcendence but it frequently is.livestream Q&A · offset 35947 · 13 words
30. Well, it is the, matrix means womb, so it is a matrix that you're inside of.livestream Q&A · offset 37571 · 16 words
31. You can't invest all of your heart and soul in a person, in some fucking dummy in socks and think everything's gonna be okay because it isn't.livestream Q&A · offset 40280 · 27 words
32. So you have to find that one weakness that this powerful virus, parasite, predatory species has.livestream Q&A · offset 46077 · 16 words
33. So a few years ago I think it was back in 2014 I coined the term narcissistic abuse victim syndrome and I said it was a form of cptsd that's complex post-traumatic stress disorderIntegration course · offset 1323 · 34 words
34. But inside that pod you'll never live inside that pod you have eternal lifeIntegration course · offset 20638 · 14 words
35. But it should be going up across a timeline and they should be leaving and never coming back to thisIntegration course · offset 21080 · 20 words
36. Because there is one dominant inject we come back here inject one and inject two or we could just say I'm keeping this very simple this is the NPD theyIntegration course · offset 23380 · 30 words
37. What's really happening with the people who remain obsessed with narcissistic abuse is tragic, but not unfixable.livestream Q&A · offset 1147 · 17 words
38. Whether you were raised in a narcissistic abusive family, or whether you're an adult who fell for somebody who has narcissistic abuse, do you remember room 101 from "1984"?livestream Q&A · offset 1520 · 29 words
39. The Adlerian defense is to avoid that reality like hell the Adlerian defence because the grieving that would take place after the narcissistically abusive relationship.livestream Q&A · offset 2437 · 25 words
40. Pain number two is you carrying around the bloated corpse of your unprocessed emotion, your delusional fantasy about your ex, your ex-wife, your ex-girlfriend, your ex-husband, whatever.livestream Q&A · offset 6223 · 27 words
41. My hypothesis for the lingering and the obsession for years and years on narcissistic abuse and narcissistically abusive exes.livestream Q&A · offset 8940 · 19 words
42. So every time you turn away and every time you succumb to fear, a little bit of your self-respect dies.livestream Q&A · offset 21438 · 20 words
43. Its more than a "mindset shift" It's more than just feel the pain.livestream Q&A · offset 27298 · 13 words
44. How much of your view of love, let's say, because narcissistic abuse, people who are interested in narcissistic abuse, it's around love.livestream Q&A · offset 34415 · 22 words
45. So these are just called flashbacks you've all heard of that you can have a flashback from Acid you can have a flashback from a violent experience a traumatic experienceIntegration course · offset 10067 · 30 words
46. So I have a flashback that I can remember with complex post-traumatic stress disorder it's not one experience it's multiple experiencesIntegration course · offset 10715 · 21 words
47. Love is real but is not a delusion, okay.livestream Q&A · offset 44913 · 9 words
48. But what I am suggesting now is the following when you've experienced abuse at the hands of the NPD and then the relationship finishes or you're looking to leave the relationship and we treatIntegration course · offset 13877 · 34 words
49. So you have two into one that's called fusing and merging The Narcissist will tolerate nothing less you want to be with me you want to enter the mirror world you want to youIntegration course · offset 27294 · 34 words
50. The obsession with looking into the past and conversing with other people about "my narc, my narcissistic ex" is a classic Adlerian defense.livestream Q&A · offset 536 · 23 words

Sam Vaknin, fifty from the book

Ranked top 50 of 810 scored sentences across all 167 pages, landing on 40 distinct pages from p.10 to p.146, so no single chapter carries the set. The book quotes the DSM, journal abstracts and correspondents' letters at length; those sit on his page without being his words, so any sentence inside a citation block, a bracketed attribution or an embedded quotation was excluded. Leakage into the final fifty measured zero.

1. 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.Malignant Self-Love, p.40 · 25 words
2. Manipulating the narcissist is the only way to survive in such a tainted workplace.Malignant Self-Love, p.35 · 14 words
3. I regulate my sense of self-worth by rigidly insisting that I am above the madding crowd while deriving my Narcissistic Supply from this very thus despised source.Malignant Self-Love, p.17 · 27 words
4. Even at this tender age, he showed a marked lack of empathy and a full-fledged case of pathological grandiosity: "His mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us?Malignant Self-Love, p.96 · 32 words
5. At stake is never merely the preservation of his group – but his very own survival.Malignant Self-Love, p.146 · 16 words
6. Most interactions in the workplace are part of the rut – and thus constitute a reminder of this routine – deflating the narcissist's grandiose fantasies.Malignant Self-Love, p.33 · 25 words
7. The demands of the False Self are never satisfied by the narcissist's accomplishments, standing, wealth, clout, sexual prowess, or knowledge.Malignant Self-Love, p.38 · 20 words
8. This is the classic narcissistic pattern and even God himself cannot escape it.Malignant Self-Love, p.142 · 13 words
9. The narcissist uses the False Self to regulate his or her labile sense of self-worth by extracting from his environment Narcissistic Supply (any form of attention, both positive and negative).Malignant Self-Love, p.13 · 30 words
10. A narcissistic therapist often traumatizes his clients with his acting out, rage, exploitativeness, and lack of empathy.Malignant Self-Love, p.50 · 17 words
11. Pathological narcissism is a reaction to prolonged abuse and trauma in early childhood or early adolescence.Malignant Self-Love, p.78 · 16 words
12. To the narcissist, confabulation is not merely a way of life – but life itself.Malignant Self-Love, p.23 · 15 words
13. God is the narcissist's wet dream, his ultimate grandiose fantasy.Malignant Self-Love, p.140 · 10 words
14. These inevitably involve narcissistic assertiveness which is not to be conflated or confused with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD).Malignant Self-Love, p.10 · 18 words
15. The Self-Punishing, Guilt-Purging Behaviours These are intended to inflict punishment on the narcissist and thus instantly relieve him of his overwhelming anxiety.Malignant Self-Love, p.20 · 22 words
16. The Cult of the Narcissist The narcissist is the guru at the centre of a cult.Malignant Self-Love, p.24 · 16 words
17. So convinced is the narcissist that he is destined to great things – that he refuses to accept setbacks, failures and punishments.Malignant Self-Love, p.44 · 22 words
18. When required to pay for his misdeeds, the narcissist is always disdainful and bitter and feels misunderstood by his inferiors.Malignant Self-Love, p.45 · 20 words
19. Nor is the narcissist deterred by possible punishment or regards himself subject to Man-made laws.Malignant Self-Love, p.51 · 15 words
20. The narcissist's personality is so precariously balanced that he cannot tolerate even a hint of criticism and disagreement.Malignant Self-Love, p.55 · 18 words
21. The narcissistic leader invariably proffers an aesthetic of decadence and evil carefully orchestrated and artificial - though it is not perceived this way by him or by his followers.Malignant Self-Love, p.56 · 29 words
22. This is precisely the source of the fascination with Hitler, diagnosed by Erich Fromm - together with Stalin - as a malignant narcissist.Malignant Self-Love, p.57 · 23 words
23. Indeed, it is precisely this apparent lack of a biography that qualifies these leaders to represent and bring about a fantastic and grandiose future.Malignant Self-Love, p.61 · 24 words
24. As far as the narcissist is concerned, there is no moral dimension to abusing others – only a pragmatic one: will he be punished for doing so?Malignant Self-Love, p.66 · 27 words
25. For instance: if the narcissist talks to a psychologist, the narcissist first states emphatically that he never studied psychology.Malignant Self-Love, p.86 · 19 words
26. The narcissist never admits to ignorance in any field – yet, typically, he is ignorant of them all.Malignant Self-Love, p.87 · 18 words
27. He is not interested in others or what they have to say, unless they constitute potential Sources of Supply and in order to obtain said supply.Malignant Self-Love, p.87 · 26 words
28. In general, the narcissist is very impatient, easily bored, with strong attention deficits – unless and until he is theMalignant Self-Love, p.87 · 20 words
29. Narcissistic and psychopathic Leaders The narcissistic or psychopathic leader is the culmination and reification of his period, culture, and civilization.Malignant Self-Love, p.89 · 20 words
30. It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.Malignant Self-Love, p.99 · 15 words
31. There is almost nothing that the narcissist refrains from doing, almost no borders that he hesitates to cross to achieve renown.Malignant Self-Love, p.127 · 21 words
32. It would seem reasonable to assume – though, at this stage, there is not a shred of proof – that the narcissist is born with a propensity to develop narcissistic defences.Malignant Self-Love, p.133 · 31 words
33. There is nothing special in the fact that the narcissist- celebrity does the same.Malignant Self-Love, p.134 · 14 words
34. So, the narcissist is not really interested in publicity per se or in being famous.Malignant Self-Love, p.135 · 15 words
35. It is likely that ASN is merely an amplification of earlier narcissistic conduct, traits, style, and tendencies.Malignant Self-Love, p.137 · 17 words
36. The narcissist is likely to say that he IS the army, the nation, the people, the struggle, history, or (a part of) God.Malignant Self-Love, p.144 · 23 words
37. In playing God, for instance, the narcissist is completely convinced that he is merely being himself.Malignant Self-Love, p.145 · 16 words
38. The narcissist is always the most fanatical, the most extreme, the most dangerous adherent.Malignant Self-Love, p.146 · 14 words
39. 6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.Malignant Self-Love, p.140 · 40 words
40. attributed to childhood abuse and trauma inflicted by parents, authority figures, or even peers.Malignant Self-Love, p.13 · 14 words
41. Moreover, the narcissist stabilises his fluctuating sense of self- worth by deriving Narcissistic Supply from his victims.Malignant Self-Love, p.26 · 17 words
42. Narcissists are driven by the need to uphold and maintain a False Self – a concocted, grandiose, and demanding psychological construct typical of the Narcissistic Personality Disorder.Malignant Self-Love, p.37 · 27 words
43. The False Self is projected to the world in order to garner Narcissistic Supply – adulation, admiration, or even notoriety and infamy.Malignant Self-Love, p.37 · 22 words
44. The narcissist does not victimise, plunder, terrorise and abuse others in a cold, calculating manner.Malignant Self-Love, p.40 · 15 words
45. Smothering, doting, pampering, over- indulgence, treating the child as an extension of the parent, not respecting the child's boundaries, and burdening the child with excessive expectations are also forms of abuse.Malignant Self-Love, p.42 · 31 words
46. If these fail, the narcissist devalues and discards the very people he so idealized and cherished only a short while before.Malignant Self-Love, p.50 · 21 words
47. These types of relationships – based on the unidirectional and unilateral flow of Narcissistic Supply – border on abuse.Malignant Self-Love, p.65 · 19 words
48. The narcissist shifts to the opposite pole (devaluation) when Narcissistic Supply dries up or when he estimates that it is about to.Malignant Self-Love, p.66 · 22 words
49. This False Self is then used by the narcissist to garner narcissistic supply from his human environment.Malignant Self-Love, p.80 · 17 words
50. Narcissistic supply is any form of attention, both positive and negative and it is instrumental in the regulation of the narcissist's labile sense of self-worth.Malignant Self-Love, p.80 · 25 words

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