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Mark Leary || The Self, Identity, and Removing the Mask

The Psychology Podcast

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The Role of Power and Status in Addiction

In animals you see dominant numbers of any species that run over the others and control everything. But you don't have the sense that comes out of a grandiose self-view, not really. And I think that grandiose narcissism in a lot of ways is it's this fundamental system, the need for power and status or hierarchy that has kind of been hijacked by abuse. The vulnerable narcissists are stuck in a rut because they can't go through life being that way without getting into trouble.

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