The speaker discussed how sudden emergence of memories and insights can be destabilizing and must be handled carefully in therapy to avoid overwhelming or retraumatizing patients, noting shifts away from
The speaker reviewed multiple models of narcissism—sociosexuality, the agency model, and the dominant psychodynamic/psychonamic synthesis—highlighting core traits such as grandiosity, entitlement, approach orientation, compulsivity, and repetition compulsion. He explained developmental
The speaker provided a clinician-focused exploration of sublimation, defining it as an ego-driven transformation of instinctual energy (originally sexual, later including aggression) into socially valued, non-instinctual activities through mechanisms like
Speaker addressed a deleted live session where YouTube removed over 1,400 questions, explaining they will respond to reinstated questions from Mark Thomas Beare about flaws in the narcissistic abuse recovery
Sand Baknne linked the false self in narcissistic pathology to the concept of sublimation, arguing the false self functions as a sublimatory channel that redirects traumatic, aggressive, and depressive energies
The speaker provides a structured nine-principle program to recover from narcissistic abuse, grouped into three body principles (attention, regulation, protection), three mind principles (authenticity, positivity, mindfulness), and three systemic functions
The contrast between DSM and ICD highlights a broader debate in mental health: Should diagnosis be rigid and categorical or flexible and dimensional? The ICD’s nuanced, clinically informed, and culturally
The ego is indispensable for psychological health, social adaptation, and self-coherence. It is the wise mediator that balances instinctual desires, moral demands, and reality. Rather than seeking to obliterate the
The video advocates for scientific literacy, skepticism of simplistic explanations, and awareness of the complexity underlying psychological and behavioral phenomena. It emphasizes that science, not common sense, must guide our
The speaker explains that narcissists experience death differently from healthy people: they psychologically deny death and experience an internalized state of “being dead,” so external deaths register as mere factual
