Let’s call this what it is: spiritual narcissism. The value of narcissism is the classic “I – me – mine” mentality that places personal pleasure and fulfillment the forefront of concerns.
Historian Christopher Lasch went so far as to christen ours “the culture of narcissism,” calling it our new religion.
The London restaurant was elegant, the food delicious, the service excellent. With his back to the room, my husband didn’t see the beautiful couple arrive and sit down opposite.
Both in their mid-20s, they were real head-turners. The woman – dressed in the flimsiest of lace tops on a bitterly cold evening …
But that shouldn’t be surprising: We know—from psychotherapy and general psychological observation—that people who demonstrate features of a narcissistic personality, mainly marked by a sense of entitlement in their conduct, often behave that way. But the researchers didn’t expect this.
To put it simply, empaths are the opposite of narcissists. They’re not just highly-sensitive, they’re on a more extreme end of the emotional spectrum. It might sound rare or unlikely, but as Hello Giggles pointed out, “it’s pretty likely that you know someone who fits the description” of an empath, which …
To be diagnosed with a full-blown disorder such as narcissistic personality disorder, people have to meet at least five criteria, per the Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM): exaggerates her talents, is preoccupied with fantasies of success, believes she is unique and can only be understood by like-minded …
On the next City Visions host, Joseph Pace and his distinguished guests assess the mental health of Donald Trump and the country that elected him. Is he crazy or crazy like a fox?
Does his narcissism reflect the narcissism of American culture? And does his volatility pose a real danger to the American …
Named after the Greek hero Narcissus, who famously fell so in love with his face in a reflecting pool that he drowned in it, narcissistic personality disorder (or NPD for short) is defined by more than just self-love.
According to the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of …
Narcissists, for example, are invited to people they will get the most significant use from. Often, this means they pursue and target empaths. Empaths are the opposite of narcissists.
While people with narcissistic personality disorder have no empathy and thrive on the need for admiration, empaths are highly …
This is because empaths have many compassion and understanding to give, while narcissists thrive on someone worshiping them. But this isn’t a good match, because empaths tend to forgive everything the narcissist does.
This results in them being entirely used and degraded, while the narcissist …
“Our…totally self-centred and demanding baby daughter.” That’s how my dad introduced me to his readership in Chapter 3 of his book. And that’s the kind of bullsh*t my narcissists regularly spewed when they fondly reminisced about that cute, smart, demanding, angry, willful, strong-willed sinner they …
5 (Good) Reasons to Leave a Narcissist
It’s not easy to leave a narcissist. Focusing on good, solid reasons is a vital step. It’s a necessary momentum to reach a goal crucial to your wellbeing and life, in this case, to open the cage door of a toxic relationship, and realise you’ve had wings to fly away along … at minimum emotionally. It starts in the …
What do cults, narcissists and the infamous Turpins all have in common? They isolate their victims. And not just physically. Intellectually.
Relationally. Spiritually. Emotionally. Every way. Why? To create a very limited reality of their own design so they can keep you stupid, naïve and thus, controllable.
Are all actors narcissists? Do they choose their career not only because they are high on the Artistic dimension of RIASEC, but because they love basking in the limelight?
What does it take to take your vocational profile as artistic into a professional career that will actually allow you to earn a living?
The problem isn’t personal narcissism and selfie culture but, instead, a culture of mass consumption and material acquisition. It’s obvious how modern Western popular culture promotes these values, fueling a consumer culture built on speed, excess and distraction; whole industries today are made around …
Conservative columnist Bret Stephens, who is as conservative as it gets, put it this way about such people: “This is the fatal mistake of conservatives who’ve decided the best way to deal with Trump’s personality — the lying, narcissism, bullying, bigotry, crassness, name calling, ignorance, paranoia, …
To be diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder, someone needs to express five of nine different traits.
Most commonly, they are characterised as having a lack of empathy, a grandiose sense of themselves, and a need for admiration. Although many narcissists can follow similar patterns, such as …
Freud discussed “primary narcissism”, an innate tendency to be self-centred which is present from the earliest stages of life. “Loving oneself is the libidinal complement to the egoism of the instinct of self-preservation” (Freud, 1914).
Later in life, the primary focus on oneself remains crucial to essential…
One host on MSNBC decided to speculate why Donald Trump had a childlike approach to making deals when it comes to people who praise his appearance.
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Our fellow citizens in Hawaii got the surprise of their lives on Saturday. The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency activated its warning system, announced by text message the imminent arrival of a ballistic missile attack. Some 38 minutes later HEMA sent a second message through the system …
A mum-of-two was tonight branded a ‘narcissistic pervert’ as she was jailed for 22 years for poisoning four wealthy lovers. Frenchwoman … Chief prosecutor Annie Brunet-Fuster had today called for Dagorn to be sent to prison for 30 years, and described her as a ‘narcissistic pervert’ and a ‘psychopath’.
One of the defining traits of narcissism is a lack of empathy, aka, the ability to both understand and feel what others around you are feeling. Having a certain amount of understanding is imperative for a healthy emotional life.
However, having too much empathy can cause problems of its own. Those on that side …
Empathy is the ability most humans have to understand the way someone else is feeling. Unless you are a psychopath, narcissist, or sociopath, you will have the ability to feel empathy for others on some level. How much compassion we think is on a scale, and some people feel it more intensely than others.
The Reputation Institute offers a fascinating look at which countries are the most and least favourite among their fellow nations. A report from the group also reveals which countries have a much better internal reputation than external reputation.
In other words, these narcissistic countries have much higher …
Other terms in circulation include malignant narcissism. The legal issue at play here is significant. Trump, like all other elected officials, acts in a fiduciary role — he is legally required to work in the best interests of others, not himself. As the most powerful man in the world with athe uthority to launch a nuclear …
How many years has Donald Trump been president? Ten? Twenty? Doesn’t it seem like decades? Almost every day we are battered with his stupid, self-centred tweets, or we read embarrassing stories about his private and personal life.
Now we are debating whether the president of the United States …
“Thank you for your email”, wrote the Chief of Police in his Wednesday email to me, “The recent incident involving the Turpin family in California is certainly a tragic situation…your [false imprisonment] personal experiences that you shared in your email obviously had a great impact on you.” But not …
Unless you’ve been homeschooled, isolated and held against your will — it can be easy to make some wrong assumptions about the Turpin children who were famously rescued from their parents Allen and Louise Turpin this week. There is a tone of surprise by the DailyMail writer who labels the …
While a classic narcissist may be relatively easily identifiable, sometimes a narcissist can be right under your nose, and you wouldn’t know it. Your sensitive, introverted man might actually be a covert narcissist. Psychologist Elinor Greenberg took to Quora to reveal the three telling signs someone is a secret…
“Narcissism is a psychological disorder that lives in all of us. It has something to do with the fear of being extinguished. If you look at narcissism from a clinical point of view, there’s more to it than megalomaniac assholes.
But there is a certain amount of narcissism in every one of us. “As we live in, and are …
Unless you are a psychopath, narcissist, or sociopath, you will have the ability to feel empathy for others on some level. How much compassion we think is on a scale, and some people feel it more intensely than others.
People very high up on the scale are known as empaths, and they take it to the next level.
Boundaries are a real struggle for empaths, one reason being that they always want to please others, and not disappoint anyone. Unfortunately, this means they can be taken advantage of by manipulative people.
Narcissists and empaths attract each other, as narcissists see someone they can use, …
Narcissistic people come in an infinite variety of different sizes and shapes, but one crucial thing all narcissists have in common is their ability to attract others like a moth to a flame. It is human nature to be drawn to that powerful sense of specialness that a narcissist exudes — and makes you feel in …
But it doesn’t matter; the only thing that does is that this is an app that feeds into our narcissism. We are the creators of the selfie stick and Instagram and Snapchat filters and have not only perfected taking photos of ourselves but have developed ways to enhance them as well. Did you really need that …
A century-and-a-half later, Eno’s story of Peter Gnit resonates with anyone annoyed by the narcissism of today’s selfie generation. Gnit opens with the goofy protagonist’s mom (another brilliant turn by Lynne Locher) offering some humorous if contradictory, advice that all mothers can relate to: “Never …
My argument in this article is that our narcissists defined us as a person wrongly and pressed us into a lifestyle that was inauthentic to us. They scoffed at our dreams and mocked/appropriated our creativity.
They made us believe that, although we didn’t like things as they were, there was nothing we …
“Machiavellianism is characterized by the use of manipulative tactics in interpersonal behavior, emotional coldness and moral pragmatism; narcissism is characterized by grandiosity, sense of entitlement and superficial charm; and, finally, psychopathy implies callousness, disregard for others, impulsivity …
The new “public space project” centers around narcissism and will turn a shopping center into an interactive art exhibit.
Speaking about the project, Minter stated: “Narcissism is right now a national conversation.” She added “I like that moment when you see something you don’t expect. It’s sort of thrilling …
How many times has somebody so calm, vulnerable and in need of sympathy come to you and you went all out to help the person only to find out that you have been manipulated?
Once? Twice? Many times? Well, that is what a covert narcissist can do. While you will notice the “overt” narcissist, who will …
There’s an app which can put your narcissism to good use — and instil some old school culture in you, too. The Google Arts and Culture app lets you check which artwork you look like, and it’s honestly blowing our minds. The app, which was released in 2016, just added a new feature that lets you find …
In the Guardian, Jonathan Freedland writes that Wolff’s revelations “prove—yet again—what a vile, narcissistic and dangerous man we have in the Oval Office.”
And in the New Yorker, Masha Gessen, warns that Trump’s White House is “waging a daily assault on the public’s sense of sanity, decency, and …
If this sounds familiar, you may have found yourself in the grips of a narcissistic relationship, and you wouldn’t be the first. In a study carried out for the book “The Narcissism Epidemic,” research psychologists found 1 in 16 Americans has experienced a narcissistic personality in their lives; the disorder …
Actor Jim Carrey warned that President Donald Trump’s insistence on ‘alienating the world’ will eventually thrust America into unimaginable agony. “I woke up this morning in Hawaii with ten minutes to live,” Carrey wrote on Twitter Saturday, apparently referencing an Emergency Alert System (EAS) …
Narcissistic abuse of children is an abuse of children by a narcissistic parent or parents. The injury usually takes the form of emotional abuse but may include physical violence.
Anyone who’s been raised by a narcissist will recognize their narcissistic parent in this overview of their behavior, to varying …
Adult-babies are selfish, childish, willful and narcissistic. You can fall asleep while they are talking at you and they don’t notice, let alone want your point of view.
They are great fun and seductive, which is why we stay, but someone else in their sandpit is always to blame. Their motto: “Why don’t you watch …
If you are in a relationship with a narcissist, you will have been through a roller-coaster of ups and downs. In the beginning, everything would have been excellent.
You might have even thought you’d found your soul mate. But after a while, things started to go sour. This is because after a few weeks, …
NARCISSISM. RAGE. EGO. IMMATURITY and your UNSTABLE IDIOCY. Shame on your hate filled self. YOU DID THIS!” According to the Associated Press, Trump was in Florida when he was briefed on the situation. Palm Beach Post reporter George Bennett shared photos and video from Trump …
‘YOU DID THIS’: Actress Jamie Lee Curtis blames Trump’s ‘unstable idiocy’ for Hawaii missile scare.
HUBRIS. NARCISSISM. RAGE. EGO. IMMATURITY and your UNSTABLE IDIOCY. Shame on your hate filled self. YOU DID THIS!” the actress tweeted. This Hawaii missile scare is on YOU, Mr. Trump. The real FEAR that mothers & fathers & children felt is on YOU. It is on YOUR ARROGANCE. HUBRIS.
Compounding the problem, people were using psychology to highlight a politician’s negative traits—such as, in Nixon’s case, his lying, his narcissism, paranoia, his rage—but rarely what one analyst called the president’s “many ego strengths and adaptations” that might explain how he had risen as high …
“But I made it better,” said narcissist Sheldon Cooper to Leonard on The Big Bang Theory, referring to the smartphone app they were developing together.
“I don’t want it better,” Leonard sneered. “I want it my way.” And he was right! That episode of TBBT brought all the memories back. The helpful …
The new Government and Public Sector has been published today. It provides updated in the 2018 year analysis of Government and Public Sector Industries.
The Handbook of Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder is the definitive resource for empirically sound information on narcissism for …
Not only do they lie to others, but most especially they lie to themselves, taking narcissism (self-love) to its ugliest extreme. They are unable to see the world through the eyes of others.
Evil people can appreciate only their own cravings, ambitions and yearnings. Evil people, in their narcissism, often …
Research from my PrejudiceLab at Goldsmiths, University of London shows that people who score high on the collective narcissism scale are particularly sensitive to even the smallest offences to their group’s image.
As opposed to individuals with narcissistic personality, who maintain enlarged views of …
Finney: Relax. Posting selfies to Instagram doesn’t make you a narcissist.
I limped to the end of 2017. I faced personal strife and mental health struggles that challenged me to ask tough questions about myself.
I’ve made no secret to regular readers of these paragraphs that I struggle with self-esteem. The truth: I don’t like myself very much and usually feel like I can’t get …
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