Texas journalist Ruth Pennebaker, creator of the award-winning Fabulous Geezer Sisters blog about, in part, living a life void of game playing and false pretenses. She interviewed me about the first 30 days of recovery. About Surviving the Narcissist; 30 Days of Recovery she writes: “…it’s a deceptively simple book on taking care of yourself [...]
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Award-winning blogger and New York Times best-selling author and journalist Alisa Bowman interviews me about relationships in her post How To Stay Married to a Narcissist on the site Project: Happily Ever After. Her questions include: Assuming you are married to a narcissist, is divorce the only option? and How does someone live with a [...]
Anyone can be a jerk. You don’t have to have a “diagnosis” to be one. Author and journalist Ruth Pennebaker writes about her own revelation in this matter, and how when she revealed her own concern about being not-her-best self, what happened: Read it here: “On not being one of those people.”
The term narcissist has become somewhat diluted. We call people narcissists who are rude or pushy, and those who blather on about themselves without asking about anyone else. Sure, they might ultimately be “narcissists” but true narcissistic personality disorder is rare. What’s not rare, however, is the manifestation of narcissistic traits. A critical mass of [...]
I read the story. I shook my head. Then I nodded. Then I shook my head again. If you ask, will a narcissist tell you he or she is a narcissist? According to a new article in the journal PLOS ONE titled Development and Validation of the Single Item Narcissism Scale (SINS) that is comprised [...]
How does narcissism look in a love relationship? What does it feel like? How do we know if what we are feeling are the effects of narcissism? New York Times Best Selling author and creator of the award-winning marriage blog, Project: Happily Ever After (with a memoir of the same name) and I discuss the [...]
In Surviving the Self-Involved, I write about cultivating (in ourselves) compassion for the narcissist. The person with narcissism is ill. And, if we are in relationship, we have been affected, and may be contributing to the uneasy patterns of behavior. With all the pain they inflict on others, it can be easy to forget that [...]
Those are the words of Christopher Barry, PhD, a psychology professor at the University of Southern Mississippi in the article from Monitor on Psychology, on the American Psychological Association’s website. The cover story is written by Sadie F. Dingfelder, and titled “Reflecting on Narcissism.”
Patt Morrison of the Los Angeles Times did a terrific interview titled: Dr. George Woods on what went wrong in Isla Vista, and what we can do to curb such shootings. He is a forensic and neuropsychiatrist who next year will become president of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health. An excerpt: Patt [...]
Last year, The New York Times ran a series about social media and narcissism in its “Room for Debate” column. The question was centered around whether or not social media makes people narcissistic. The title: You Like Me! You Really Like Me! Is Facebook turning us into narcissists? I’ve been asked this exact question (and [...]
