PART 2: What Really Goes on in the Mind of a Narcissist? How Do They Think & Why Do They Behave the Way They Do?

Vaknin is himself a psychopathic narcissist, diagnosed twice by two different clinicians within a 10-year period. In 1995 he was found guilty in an Israeli court on three counts of securities fraud. He was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. It was a blessing in disguise, he says. “For the first time I came across the fact that, whatever it is I have it’s destroyed my life and ever since then I’ve been studying these disorders and trying to find cures if possible, or at least amelioration o...