“I would like to dedicate this article about narcissism to a very special person: me. This decision was not made lightly—only after I determined that there was no one else so incandescent, so charming, so wittily expert in the field of personality disorders as the one who appears in my mirror every morning, who in fact jumps out of every reflective surface I can unabashedly stare at during the day. Katy, this one’s for you.
Dedicating a story about narcissism to yourself is a pretty clever idea. I didn’t think of it. Jeffrey Kluger did, in his new book The Narcissist Next Door: Understanding the Monster in Your Family, in Your Office, in Your Bed—in Your World. Kluger’s well-researched and entertaining study of the syndrome du jour pulls in figures as varied as Lance Armstrong, Kim Kardashian, Jayson Blair, and Steve Jobs. It also names “exploitativeness” and “entitlement” as two of the narcissist’s calling cards, hence my ripped-off dedication. (“In keeping with the times: To me,” is his.)” *
Ben Mankiewicz (http://www.twitter.com/benmank77) and Ana Kasparian (http://www.twitter.com/AnaKasparian) discuss.
*Read more here from http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2014/08/narcissistic_personality_disorder_is_narcissism_a_personality_trait_or_mental.html
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You guys did this topic a great disservice, perhaps consider having a subject matter expert on or at least hitting GOOGLE first.. As someone who is just leaving a 10 yr marriage to a man with diagnosed Narcissistic Personality Disorder, there is a sizeable difference between someone who has a few narcissistic tendencies (i.e. someone that has a high opinion of themselves and over-uses social media) and someone who has full blow NPD. You barely touched the surface of what it means to live your life as a Narcissist or with one, it’s far more than just vanity and self entitlement. Really, google. There’s a reason there are so many hits found with information on how to help their victims, because that’s what they are. It’s the difference between you getting depressed whenever something really and truly sad happens to you or having real, diagnosed, Bipolar Depression; not remotely the same animal.