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1. 00:00 for a refund. Okay. 1,950 years before the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. There was another book written by Jewish scholars. It’s known as the New Testament. And this is what this book has to say. You see, it’s a sign from God. Direct communication.
2. 00:35 This is what the Bible has to say. But mark this. There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy. This is the Bible, not not me. Without love,
3. 01:13 unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, considered arrogant, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, but denying its power. have nothing to do with such people,
4. 01:42 says the Bible. They are the kind who warm their way into your homes and they gain control over gullible women, which sounds like a lot of fun, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kind of evil desires. These people are always learning but
5. 02:07 never able to come to the knowledge and to the truth. That is by far the best description of narcissist that I know of. Much better than the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. Much better than the International Classification of Diseases, the ICD. These are the two
6. 02:31 books that we use to diagnose people. Diagnosing people is a lot of fun. It’s like detective work. So in the diagnostic and statistical manual, we have a list of nine traits. And then we compare the person sitting opposite us, the presentation, the we
7. 02:51 compare the presentation to the list of criteria. And if the person meets five out of nine, that’s a narcissist or a psychopath. Similarly, in the international classification of diseases, the ICD edition 11, we have a list of traits, antagonism, dissoci.
8. 03:15 We will discuss these traits a bit later. And if someone comes to our office and they satisfy these traits, we say that they are possibly narcissists or psychopaths. Although the ICD does not use these words. I want you to to know narcissists and psychopaths are
9. 03:33 terms that are used almost exclusively in North America, in United States, in Canada, to some extent in United Kingdom, some parts of Australia. The ICD does not contain this diagnosis. There’s no diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder in ICD. So
10. 03:57 the lecture is divided in two parts like everything Jewish. The first one is the first part is phenomenology. I’m going to describe to you the typical narcissist. The second part.