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Culture Influences Character and Vice-Versa

June 8, 2022Aggression, conscience, empathy, Entitlement, Integrity, Mental Health, Narcissism, Personality and Character, Personality and Character Disorders, Psychology, Relationships, Responsibility, Social Issuescharacter, culture, entitlement, norms, traditions, valuesDr. Simon

How Culture Influences Character Culture influences character development in many ways. Various values, norms, and traditions largely define a culture. And cultures invariably promote these things and their embrace by constituents. (Cultures also tend to punish failures to embrace these things!) Consequently, culture has a lot to do with the attitudes folks form and the … Continue reading Culture Influences Character and Vice-Versa →

Character Integrity Requires a Willing Heart

April 21, 2022Abuse, conscience, Entitlement, Integrity, Intimacy, Narcissism, Personality and Character, Personality and Character Disorders, Psychology, Relationships, Responsibility, Social Issues, Spiritualityabuse, culture, entitlement, exploitation, indulgence, integrity, narcissism, open heart, willing heartDr. Simon

Forging good character is inherently hard work. So, you have to have the heart for it.

Ushering Out the Age of Narcissism

February 3, 2022Abuse, Entitlement, Integrity, Lying and Deception, Manipulation, Narcissism, Personality and Character, Personality and Character Disorders, Psychological Manipulation, Psychology, Relationships, Social Issues, Spiritualityabuse, egocentricity, entitlement, exploitation, love, narcissism, permissivenes, relativismDr. Simon

For a culture steeped in egocentricity, entitlement, relativism, and permissiveness to change, hearts must change first. But as they do, this age of narcissism will eventually come to an end.

Ingratitude Arrests Healthy Character Formation

June 24, 2021conscience, empathy, Entitlement, gaslighting, Integrity, Personality and Character, Personality and Character Disorders, Psychology, Relationships, Social Issuescharacter, deprivation, entitlement, gratitude, indebtedness, indulgence, ingratitude, obligationDr. Simon

Healthy character is not so much about the gratitude you feel in your heart but more about what you demonstrate with your actions.

Pathological Heartlessness and Egomania Go Together

April 2, 2021Abuse, empathy, Entitlement, Integrity, Narcissism, Personality and Character, Personality and Character Disorders, Psychology, Psychopathy and Sociopathy, Relationships, Responsibility, Social Issuesconscience, egomania, empathy, entitlement, heartlessness, malignant narcissistsDr. Simon

Pathological heartlessness, combined with egomania, characterizes humanity’s most dangerous predators.

Severe Narcissistic Malignancy And Psychopathy

March 25, 2021Abuse, Aggression, conscience, Covert-Aggression, empathy, Empowerment, Entitlement, Lying and Deception, Narcissism, Personality and Character, Personality and Character Disorders, Psychology, Relationships, Social Issuesantisocial, antisocial personality, ego inflation, entitlement, heartlessness, mask of civility, psychopath, Psychopathy and Sociopathy, sociopathDr. Simon

Extreme narcissistic malignancy characterizes the most disturbed characters among us. They wantonly use and abuse and feel entitled to do so.

The Narcissistic Malignancy Spectrum

March 17, 2021Abuse, Aggression, conscience, empathy, Entitlement, Integrity, Narcissism, Personality and Character, Personality and Character Disorders, Psychology, Relationships, Responsibility, Self-Esteem, Social Issues, Therapyabuse, character disturbance, conscience, entitlement, grandiosity, narcissistic malignancy, neurosisDr. Simon

Narcissistic malignancy is largely about empathy deficiency and grandiosity. Folks who don’t care and feel superior will wantonly use and abuse.

Pathological Pride Rejects and Blocks the Light

December 10, 2020Aggression, conscience, empathy, Entitlement, gaslighting, Integrity, Manipulation, Manipulators, Narcissism, Personality and Character, Personality and Character Disorders, Psychological Manipulation, Psychology, Psychopathy and Sociopathy, Relationships, Self-Esteem, Social Issues, Spiritualityego, entitlement, gaslighting, narcissistic characters, pathological pride, vanityDr. Simon

Pathological pride happens when our hearts are so full of our egoic selves that there isn’t any room left for the Source.

Labors of Love Define the Wholesome Character

September 7, 2020Abuse, conscience, empathy, Entitlement, Integrity, Lying and Deception, Narcissism, Personality and Character, Personality and Character Disorders, Psychopathy and Sociopathy, Relationships, Social Issues, Spiritualitycharacter, entitlement, gratitude, integrity, labor, love, obligation, workDr. Simon

Many folks enjoy a healthy and sometimes rewarding or even fulfilling relationship with work. But for disturbed characters work is more than literally a four-letter word, especially when it benefits someone or something else.

Narcissism and Empathy Capacity

July 20, 2020Abuse, empathy, Entitlement, Integrity, Narcissism, Personality and Character, Personality and Character Disorders, Psychology, Psychopathy and Sociopathy, Relationships, Social Issues, Spiritualitycharacter, empathy capacity, entitlement, narcissism, powerDr. Simon

Empathy Capacity Empathy capacity is central to healthy emotional, spiritual, and character development. Some equate this capacity with what it means to be truly human. But these days many among us have an impaired capacity to truly care. The reasons for this are many and varied. And as I’ve written about before, how impaired a … Continue reading Narcissism and Empathy Capacity →