The Motivation of Narcissists

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Marian Pascal looked into the existing scientific literature on the two subtypes of narcissism grandiose And vulnerable. She found that none of these scales Really got to the insecurity stuff they were looking for. One reason is because psychopaths don't feel insecure and Narcissists generally don't know themselves that well. There's a gap in these measures for motivation and for how one would behave in the real world when engaging in things that might Reveal those vulnerabilities Might exacerbate those insecurities, she says.

In this episode we explore what narcissism is and what is most-definitely is not. You will learn is that narcissists are not psychopaths, and vice-versa, but there is a form of narcissism which had been, up until now, confused with psychopathy, and vice-versa. According to the research of the two psychologists in this episode, narcissism may even need to be renamed, because it isn't excessive self-love, it's excessive self-loathing. Narcissists like Don Draper in Mad Men cope with their insecurity by donning a mask, and then spend most of their lives protecting that mask out of a fear of what will happen if people ever see what it hides.

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