Narcissism and the Problem of Phoniness
Surviving Narcissism with Dr. Les Carter
Dr. Les Carter
4.8 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
If you're trying to manage life honestly, your entanglements with a narcissist can prove to be especially difficult. One of the defining features of narcissism is phoniness...the commitment to living behind the shield of a False Self. In this episode, Dr. Les Carter offers multiple ways of identifying how narcissists illustrate their phoniness, then he goes behind the scenes to describe how and why this develops. Once you are able to spot what is happening, you can develop the objectivity necessary for a much better way of managing your relationships.
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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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| 1:05.4 | Welcome to this week's episode of the Surviving Narcissism Podcast. |
| 1:10.2 | I'm Michelle, the program director, and I would |
| 1:12.5 | like to start this episode with a quick introduction. For those of you not familiar with surviving |
| 1:17.5 | narcissism, it is the product of many years of work done by Dr. Les Carter. Dr. Carter is a best-selling |
| 1:24.1 | author and therapist with more than 40 years of experience, specializing |
| 1:28.6 | in anger management and narcissistic personality disorder. This week, Dr. C's topic will be |
| 1:35.2 | narcissism and the problem of phoniness. |
| 1:43.9 | Hey, I want to talk to you today about a word that nobody wants to have associated with |
| 1:49.8 | themselves, and yet there's quite a bit of prevalence when we think about this word. |
| 1:56.0 | It's the word phoniness. |
| 1:58.6 | Do you ever want anyone to think of you as being phony even the word itself sounds |
| 2:05.6 | kind of odd I don't know who's in charge of making up all these words but when they came to that |
| 2:09.5 | word phony it's like yeah let's see if we can come up with something that sounds weird and so they |
| 2:13.3 | came up with the word phoniness I digress narcissists are masters of phoniness. I want you to |
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