However the Internet could also be the closest many narcissists get to psychodynamic therapy. Reality beckons and few narcissists resist its siren name. A number of retreat and confine themselves to the company of adoring sycophants and unquestioning groupies. If the reply is "yes", then, in all chance, we're coping with a narcissist or a psychopath. In his fantasies, the narcissist or psychopath is at all times in unmitigated control of the atmosphere. Even when the narcissist incorporates his real-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 equivalent to group sex, swinging (spouse-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 sort of woman with whom he can have lustful, emotion-free intercourse. Such imaginarium invariably results in acts of self-stimulation, the ultimate manifestations of auto-eroticism. Initially, it might heighten and sharpen his paranoia and lead him to compensate by extending and deepening his grandiosity.
