Mind Games Narcissists Will Play With You
Surviving Narcissism with Dr. Les Carter
Dr. Les Carter
4.8 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Dr. Les Carter highlights two of the most common aspects of narcissism: control and manipulation. Narcissists actually believe you should filter your way of life through them. So, when you act, think, or prioritize differently, they are not bashful about bringing you under their controlling agenda. And true to their nature, they will use all sorts of gaslighting tactics to accomplish their purposes. In this episode, Dr. C identifies eight of the most common mind games they use. Knowledge is power, and as you are able to see in real time how you are being manipulated, you will be poised to stay out of their clutches.
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Dr. Les Carter is a best selling author and therapist who has semi-retired to Waco, TX. In the past 40+ years he has conducted more than 65,000 counseling sessions and many workshops and seminars. He specializes in anger management and narcissistic personality disorder.
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| 0:45.4 | Now, that's BetterH-E-L-P.com slash surviving narcissism podcast. |
| 0:53.3 | And thanks again to Better Help for sponsoring this podcast. |
| 1:01.9 | Welcome to this week's episode of the Surviving Narcissism Podcast. |
| 1:06.5 | I'm Michelle, the program director, and I would like to start this episode with a quick introduction. |
| 1:11.9 | For those of you not familiar with surviving narcissism, it is the product of many years of work done by Dr. Les Carter. |
| 1:18.9 | Dr. Carter is a best-selling author and therapist with more than 40 years of experience, |
| 1:24.1 | specializing in anger management and narcissistic personality disorder. |
| 1:29.1 | This week, Dr. C's topic is, mind games narcissists will play with you. |
| 1:40.0 | Hello, once again, Team Healthy. I'm so pleased to be with you. |
| 1:43.7 | Now, keep in mind that one of the things that I'm wanting to accomplish on our podcast here is I want us to have a real-time understanding of what it means to have a narcissistic pattern of life. |
| 1:55.4 | Now, let's keep in mind. Each one of us has a certain amount of propensity towards the characteristics that make up |
| 2:03.6 | the narcissistic pattern. When we talk about narcissism, we talk about people that are self-absorbed |
| 2:09.6 | and they're manipulative and they have an attitude of entitlement. They want to be superior. |
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