Don Draper is a classic example of NPD. He's stuck in a loop of seduce score run away Because he's terrified of anyone seeing the real person wearing his Don Draper mask both professionally and privately throughout the show. On another level Don Draper is literally not a real person without going into too many spoilers He's just an advertisement for another person who is wearing this Don Draper mask and like all ads there's no way a person could actually be that cool. I love mad men especially because of its exploration of narcissism And these two examples illustrate again when he is asked what's behind the mask by two different journalists in one case when he is feeling very vulnerable because of the context
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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