However the Internet might even be the closest many narcissists get to psychodynamic therapy. Reality beckons and few narcissists resist its siren call. A couple of retreat and confine themselves to the company of adoring sycophants and unquestioning groupies. If the answer is "yes", then, in all chance, we're coping with a narcissist or a psychopath. In his fantasies, the narcissist or psychopath is all the time in unmitigated control of the atmosphere. Even when the narcissist incorporates his actual-life companion in his fantasies, he is certain to treat her as a mere prop, a physique to masturbate with, in, or on, or an object to be "defiled" in acts reminiscent of group sex, swinging (wife-swapping), or outright sexual deviance (examples: urophilia, or coprophilia.) This crude and overt denigration serves to render her a "slut", or a "whore" in his thoughts, the kind of woman with whom he can have lustful, emotion-free intercourse. Such imaginarium invariably leads to acts of self-stimulation, the final word manifestations of auto-eroticism. Initially, it could heighten and sharpen his paranoia and lead him to compensate by extending and deepening his grandiosity.
