CPQ Neurology and Psychology (2020) 3:3
Perspective
Love Bombing and Grooming in Cluster B Personality Disorders
Sam Vaknin
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Correspondence to: Dr. Sam Vaknin, Visiting Professor of Psychology, Southern Federal University,
Rostov-on-Don, Russia and Professor of Finance and Psychology in CIAPS, Nigeria.
Received: 11 July 2020
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© 2020 Dr. Sam Vaknin. Tis is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution
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Keywords: Love Bombing; Psychotic Space
Sam Vaknin (2020). Love Bombing and Grooming in Cluster B Personality Disorders. CPQ Neurology and
Psychology, 3(3), 01-06.
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Published: 30 July 2020
Visiting Professor of Psychology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia and Professor of Finance
and Psychology in CIAPS, Nigeria
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Put together, these techniques create a shared psychotic space within which the shared fantasy
thrives on false promises and make believe role play. Whenever the woman tries to exit this common
territory, she is punished with sadistic sex, egregious abuse, withholding, or rejection.
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Finally, the only way open to her is to resort to another man with whom she can create an alternative
sanctuary, however fantastic and brief. She cheats and the shared fantasy is irrevocably undermined
as mortifcation sets in and the woman is now perceived as a threat to be shunned at all costs.
Love bombing has four functions:
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2. Virtue signaling: to convey the purity and authenticity as well as the good intentions of the love bomber.
1. To signal the intensity and persistence of the interlocutor’s or correspondent’s ostensible emotions and to
chart and document the growing, all-pervasive attachment.