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It's Wednesday, December 8th, 2010. On today's program, Narcissism, it's everywhere and nowhere. Andrew Jurecki's film All Good Things,

and Kanye West delivers a masterpiece, question mark. And for that segment, we'll be joined by

Jonah Weiner, Slate's pop critic. But for now, joining me, our Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner.

Hello, Julia. Hi, Steve. And our film critic, Dana Stevens. Hey, Dana. Hey, Steve. We're back from Seattle. I know. We're back in our white box. I just wish we were in the beautiful cavernous space of Town Hall once more. I know, with 500 adoring fans, right, Julia? You got to say it. Up until the Elliott Smith faux pa. Debacle. It was a great audience. It was super fun to visit Seattle, to speak to Seattleites.

It was a total delight. But let's plunge right in. The fifth edition of the diagnostic and statistical

manual of mental disorders, better known as the DSM, is due out, it'll be known then as the DSM-5, is due out in 2013.

And as always, it will be a definitive compendium of diagnosable human misery.

But with one fascinating absence going forward, as far as we know, they have

decided to eliminate narcissistic personality disorder from the DSM-5, which has, as I understand it,

rather extensive consequences vis-a-vis what you can ensure someone for when they seek out help.

People will be diagnosed

differently. They're going to be diagnosed less according to a prototype system, Dana, and more

according to dimensional traits. I don't know exactly what that means, but one consequence is you

will no longer walk into a therapist's office and be officially diagnosed as having narcissistic

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