The Vulnerable Narcissist

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There is no such thing as a grandiose narcissist. That's just another way to describe a psychopath. Research suggests that all narcissism is what we used to classify as vulnerable narcissism and Though it took until 2021 to quantify this to provide evidence for this. This is something that was predicted and explored in depth for years by a television show whose main character Was narcissistic.

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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