The Real Nature of Narcissism

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Psychologists at NYU did not intend to study narcissism when they started their research. They didn't even know that's what they were researching We'll get to that in a second, but I do want to know this is incredibly well conducted ultra quantified overly careful ground-breaking research That is very popular on the internet right now on Reddit and other places because It plainly redefines the very idea the term narcissist. And it also Cleaves away from narcissists the entire category of personality and psychological disorders that we might classify as psychopathy or psychopaths.

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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