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QotD: Narcissistic Defenses
Dec. 16th, 2010 10:53 pmAny nonnarcissistic person can sound arrogant or devaluing, or empty and idealizing, under conditions that strain his or her identity and confidence. Medical school and psychotherapy training programs are famous for taking successful, autonomous adults and making them feel like incompetent children. Compensatory behaviors like bragging, opinionated proclamations, hypercritical commentary, or idealization of a mentor are to be expected under such circumstances.
--Nancy McWilliams in Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, p195
--Nancy McWilliams in Psychoanalytic Diagnosis, p195
Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
Mar. 27th, 2010 04:23 pm
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
- Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
Tyler Durden's 8 Rules of Innovation
May. 5th, 2009 09:28 pmMany thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
1bigguy for posting this one. I'm getting better all the time at letting things slide. ( Tyler's Rules of Innovation )
1bigguy for posting this one. I'm getting better all the time at letting things slide. ( Tyler's Rules of Innovation )Tags:
- business,
- courage,
- creativity,
- death,
- fear,
- freedom,
- identity,
- life,
- mistakes,
- philosophy,
- plans,
- productivity,
- risk
Yep. Radovan Karadzic had been in hiding for over a decade, after leading the Bosnian Serbs in the 1992-5 war. They forced quite a few Bosnian Muslims into concentration camps. I have no idea how many died. Karadzic was a psychiatrist. In Srebenica, 1995, some 8,000 Muslim boys and men were massacred, and Karadzic is supposed to have orchestrated that. It gives me pause to think that someone who has training in human nature is capable of leading such disastrous action. And then, after whatever the war did to him and those around him, he tried to be a good person under a new name.
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