Jones, what does "Dark Personality" mean to you? I found the concept of the "dark triad of personality" online, which includes Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy. But I don't know if it's exactly what you're talking about.
In my opinion, we're in our infancy in understanding how the brain works, although there have been interesting advances, such as Porges' polyvagal theory.
In my experience, I dare say there's currently an exaggerated focus on finding explanations in neuroscience discoveries. We try to study phenomena through dialectical materialism, using a scientific method to obtain measurable and quantifiable data.
I think it's more valuable to be able to understand how phenomena manifest in our lives.
For example, I see many "trauma experts" explaining on social media how emotional trauma occurs in people's nervous systems, but they don't know how to apply this to real life, whether for themselves or for others.
I'm currently supporting trauma courses and I see people with a wealth of scientific knowledge about how the nervous system works, but who are very emotionally dysregulated, with fixed survival patterns.
So, I think it's more valuable to know how to turn a light bulb on and off than to know how electricity works.
Let's suppose a narcissistic person wants to stop being narcissistic. Perhaps it's not so important whether the amygdala or the afferent fibers of the vagal nervous system are malfunctioning.
Perhaps it's more important to know whether a person's narcissism stems from one or more experiences of shame or powerlessness that created a pattern of dissociative or aggressive behaviors (like the trapped rat). This pattern can be seen as not caring about other people and only caring about their own needs.
In Somatic Experiencing, I learned that this behavior can be addressed from the body to the mind. In other words, discover how the defensive response they were unable to complete when they experienced the traumatic situation was imprinted in that person, and allow them to execute that action gently and consciously.
Because what has been discovered is that repetitive aggressive behavior occurs because the person/rat was unable to complete their fight-against-the-aggressor response, for example, because they were immobilized. To change this behavior, it has been very useful to first allow the person to be in touch with their bodily sensations (connecting the mind with the body), expand their capacity to feel what is pleasant and unpleasant, and finally, allow the body to perform the defensive action that could not be completed.
I have seen how people, after releasing this energy without dissociating and without catharsis, can modify their beliefs about themselves, become more empathetic, less aggressive, and more focused on connecting with others.
Perhaps what happened is that the nervous system created better feedback connections to the amygdala (as the person increased their ability to feel the bodily sensations of their emotions), and thus, the amygdala decreased its activity. I don't know.
My question is whether it really matters to know exactly how the brain and nervous system work, or whether it's better to learn how it expresses itself in our thoughts, our emotions, our bodies, our relationships with the world, or our connections with others.
Perhaps Stephen Porges disagrees with me

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