I Feel for You: Narcs and narcissists
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
At a time when we're being told we need more empathy, some experts claim that narcissism - empathy's evil twin - is on the rise. Narcissism has vaulted off the psychotherapist’s couch, sprinted away from the psychiatric ward, and is now squatting in the mainstream of popular conversation. Social media seems obsessed with "narcs", and with detecting narcissism personality disorder in people. It may or may not be a coincidence that we ended up with an apparent world-class narcissist in the White House at just the time when we seemed to be undergoing a public crisis about narcissism and narcissists. Blogs and books about narcissists are everywhere. Jolyon Jenkins talks to people who make a living from advising the public about narcissists, and a self-confessed celebrity narcissist who offers consultations to people who think they may be living with one of "his kind". The evidence that there really is more narcissism around seems thin, but that doesn't mean to say that we shouldn't take it seriously when it flips into a personality disorder.
Producer/presenter: Jolyon Jenkins
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
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| 0:39.0 | Hi, I'm Riana Dillon and this is seriously. |
| 0:44.3 | So I was in a relationship with someone who had narcissistic personality disorder and even though he was |
| 0:51.2 | undiagnosed he definitely showed characteristic traits of this personality disorder. |
| 0:56.2 | This is Anushka Marson, she runs, I suppose you have to call it a psychology consultancy. |
| 1:02.3 | As she says, she thinks a former partner had |
| 1:04.4 | narcissistic personality disorder, a kind of mental illness. It's only her opinion. |
| 1:10.0 | He was undiagnosed and we have no way of knowing whether he did or didn't or his side of the story about the relationship |
| 1:16.9 | whatever it wasn't working for Anushka. I ran I ran away. |
| 1:20.9 | Nowadays Anushka offers advice on how to spot a narcissist and what to do about it. |
| 1:26.8 | They come across as being very confident, but the thing is underneath all of this they really do feel quite inadequate. |
| 1:36.4 | It's a disorder of the ego. |
| 1:38.4 | Do you think there's more of it about? |
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