Narcissist's 10 Body Postures, Psychopath's Physique
Channel: Prof. Sam Vaknin
Date: 2023-08-11

Narcissist's Body Postures: Hypervigilant-paranoid, Pleading-expectant, Dismissive-contemptuous, Superior-boastful, Impatient-scornful, Impatient-entitled, Membership-gravitas, Converting-empathic, Observer-detached

Psychopath’s body language is geared at concealment, so he appears to be lying all the time. 

Body language environmentally determined: in prison submissive.

Invasion of personal space signals power hierarchy and ritualized pain as a form of extreme intimacy.

Narcissist’s eyes go blank when he dissociates or when his aggression (contempt, disdain) is provoked. He withdraws inwards and decompensates: both the false and true selves are deactivated.

The narcissist adopts a physical posture which implies and exudes an air of superiority, seniority, hidden powers, mysteriousness, amused indifference, etc. Though the narcissist usually maintains sustained and piercing eye contact, he often refrains from physical proximity (he is "territorial").

Narcissist's Body Postures: Hypervigilant-paranoid, Pleading-expectant, Dismissive-contemptuous, Superior-boastful, Impatient-scornful, Impatient-entitled, Membership-gravitas, Converting-empathic, Observer-detached

Somatoform disorders (Somatization, conversion disorder, illness anxiety disorder or hypochondria)

Body dysmorphia (shame and anxiety) and body image problems.

LITERATURE

WATCH Narcissist, His Body, Other Bodies (35th Psychosomatic Medicine Conference 2018 Video Presentation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBzotc3nonU

WATCH Narcissist and His Body in Health, Illness, and Disability https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L23a2EQHzLI

WATCH Body Language of the Personality Disordered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omxNWsy3FMI

WATCH Body Language of Narcissistic and Psychopathic Abuser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFUuaw8Pf1M

Body Language in David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Nieminen, Jani (2020)
https://trepo.tuni.fi/handle/10024/120237

Cambridge Guide to Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
By Adam Polnay, Rhiannon Pugh, Victoria Barker, David Bell, Allan Beveridge, Adam Burley, Allyson Lumsden, C. Susan Mizen, Lauren Wilson
Chapter 14: Narcissistic Difficulties 

81 FBI L. Enforcement Bull. 28 (2012)
The Language of Psychopaths: New Findings and Implications for Law Enforcement
https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/fbileb81&div=73&id=&page=

How To Analyze People With Dark Psychology by Jason Gale

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