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#357 – Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil

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Dealing With Trauma

When we're toddlers, we all have an omnipotence defense. And if we don't have major traumas, we can sort of carry through that, oh, bad things aren't going to happen to me. "I think I understood at the time to some degree, but not like I do now," he says about his brother's suicide when he was 25 years old. The experience taught him how a sense of guilt and shame and vulnerability can just pervade our entire life perspective.

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