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#447 W. Keith Campbell: The New Science of Narcissism

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Is There a Difference Between Normal and Disordered?

The line between normal and abnormal, or ordered and disordered, is not a bright line. It's much more of a gradient. And what happens when it becomes of disorder is that's the line when you say, ok, now you can go to your insurance company and they'll pay for treatment for you. So you need the diagnosis to get the treatment. That's the point of the diagnosis. It's like an insurance code. But if we didn't have it for treatment, i don't think it would be that bad. I mean, again, with narcisism, if you're not being impaired, it's not in disorder. If people are functioning and they're working

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