The Importance of Understanding Narcissism

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Narcissism is more complex than we originally thought. It's not just something like, you know, people have a You know madman is a great example of exploring what's really going on with a narcissist but no one there's never been no scientific evidence to back up some of these assumptions or some of these Speculations. I think that having a definition that Highlights this kind of self-love is really doing people with this personality disorder to service because that's not how they feel and I think Having a more Scientifically founded understanding of like okay. it's not self-love.

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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