Narcissists Carry Pervasive Neediness Inside
Surviving Narcissism with Dr. Les Carter
Dr. Les Carter
4.8 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Narcissists like to give the impression that they have life figured out and that you should defer to their mandates. Dr. Les Carter offers a very different perspective, discussing how they are actually profoundly needy and act as they do because they have not learned to come to terms with life's challenges.
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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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| 0:00.0 | Dr. C here. Before we begin, I'd like to make sure that you're aware that this podcast is |
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| 0:56.9 | BetterHelp for sponsoring our podcast. Thank you for joining us for another episode of the |
| 1:07.8 | Surviving Narcissism podcast with your host, Dr. Les Carter. I'm Michaela, the |
| 1:12.9 | program director, and in today's episode, Dr. Carter will discuss how narcissists carry pervasive |
| 1:18.9 | neediness inside. Well, hello, Team Healthy. I've got a lot that I want to talk with you about today. And in doing so, |
| 1:31.9 | I want to see if we can go behind the scenes or go underground, if you will, and talk about some of the |
| 1:38.0 | things that actually drive the narcissists to be what they are. One of the things that I hope that you can truly understand |
| 1:46.2 | and appreciate is narcissists, despite the fact that they want to present themselves as being the |
| 1:52.2 | standard bearers of all that's right and proper and good, are desperately insecure. They're |
| 1:58.8 | desperately needy on the inside. Now, again, they do not want you to know that. They won't even admit it to themselves, but there are so many evidences to the contrary that that's something we're going to need to look at and understand. Narcissists want you to think you're a deeply problematic, you're a deeply troubled kind of person, |
| 2:20.1 | when in fact they carry all sorts of unfinished business on the inside of themselves. |
| 2:25.5 | But to their advantage, if you want to put it that way, they've decided, well, but if I can |
| 2:33.1 | focus on you and what's wrong with you, then I don't |
| 2:36.1 | have to look at me. But I want us to look at who they are, because in doing so, it allows |
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