The Spectrum: From Echoism to Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Live from Belmont Library MA: The Spectrum: From Echoism to Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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WHY RETHINK NARCISSISM?

People ask, “Why rethink narcissism?” and sometimes they get a little confused from the title that somehow I’m talking about how great narcissism is - that’s not what this book is about at all. In fact, it draws on many of the most promising and recent research findings that we have in understanding narcissism and includes my own research in helping people understand narcissism in a different way, which gives you a much clearer path through all of this than we’ve ever had before.

THE NARCISSISM TEST

If you haven’t already done so, I suggest you go to The Narcissism Test on http://www.drcraigmalkin.com/the-narcissism-test and take the brief online version of the measure my colleagues and I have developed (The Narcissism Spectrum Scale) to see where you or your loved ones score (if you want to take it as if your loved one was taking it; many people have).

Here's the fifth in this series of unseen video snippets, where I share some bitesize pieces of information on the subject of narcissism. The paperback version of my critically acclaimed book Rethinking Narcissism, with updated material and resources was just released on July 5th, so if this subject interests you, you can buy the book here!
http://tinyurl.com/j4t7hmh

"The first and major rethink I had to do, which is really the first 3 quarters of Rethinking Narcissism..is about how we understand what's bad about narcissism. Most of us when we think about the word narcissism or narcissist, what we picture are vain, preening, primping, boastful braggarts, reality TV types, Donald Trump gets thrown around a lot. That is what comes to mind. The problem with that image, which is really a stereotype about bad narcissism, is that a lot of narcissists could care less about looks or fame or money and some can be extremely quiet. If that's what you are looking for, that particular image, you're going to miss all kinds of signs of trouble in a relationship that have absolutely nothing to do with those things..."

"I'm a recovered echoist. Most people who have been raised by extremely narcissistic parents are vulnerable to this. I learned to echo my mother's narcissism. The other thing I wanted to do was empower people who struggle in this way. There were no words for this.

Just a quick story: there was a study done one of the researchers who takes apart healthy and unhealthy narcissism put this grid together where in one grid somebody was high in healthy narcissism with rose­ colored glasses, low in extreme narcissism, in another grid they were high and both. Then there was this one group where people were low in extreme narcissism and low in healthy narcissism and it was empty. That's not a thing somehow. We wanted to fill it, and that's how I developed the narcissism spectrum scale which unlike most spectrums that move from degrees of awfulness up, it starts at zero with a lack of healthy narcissism and in the center we have healthy and then at the far end is where you find people who are addicted to feeling special in various ways: people with narcissistic personality disorder. "

To learn more about echoism, narcissistic personality disorder, and the narcissistic spectrum, read my internationally acclaimed book, Rethinking Narcissism. http://tinyurl.com/j4t7hmh

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BUY THE BOOK

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Видео The Spectrum: From Echoism to Narcissistic Personality Disorder канала Craig Malkin