Rethinking Narcissism, Featuring Dr. Craig Malkin
Surviving Narcissism with Dr. Les Carter
Dr. Les Carter
4.8 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Dr. Les Carter shares an insightful interview with psychologist Dr. Craig Malkin, who is a lecturer at the Harvard Medical School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and who also maintains an active therapy practice. Dr. Malkin explains how narcissism is a combination of inborn temperament and learned patterns, and also discusses why they have such difficulty regulating themselves as adults.
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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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Dr. Craig Malkin, author of the internationally acclaimed, Rethinking Narcissism and co-author of the NYT bestselling The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, is a clinical psychologist and Lecturer for Harvard Medical School with over 30 years of experience helping individuals, couples, and families. His articles, advice, and insights on relationships have appeared in newspapers and magazines such as Time, The New York Times, The Sunday Times, Psychology Today, Women’s Health, Huffington Post and Happen Magazine, as well as countless other popular print and online media outlets. He’s also been a featured multiple times on NPR, CBS Radio, the Oprah Winfrey Network channel, appeared on various local morning shows, and been a guest on many radio stations and podcasts here and abroad. Dr. Malkin is president and director of the Cambridge, Massachusetts–based YM Psychotherapy and Consultation, Inc., which provides psychotherapy and evidence-based couples workshops. He lives in Boston with his wife and twin girls.
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| 1:05.1 | Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Surviving Narcissism Podcast with your host, Dr. Les Carter. This episode concludes |
| 1:13.6 | season one of the podcast. Dr. Carter will return with new episodes at the end of the summer. |
| 1:19.5 | For now, you can go back and listen to some classics and join us on YouTube, where we post |
| 1:24.3 | videos every Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. In today's episode, Dr. Carter is joined by Dr. Craig Malkin to discuss rethinking narcissism. |
| 1:39.9 | Hey, Team Healthy. I'm so glad to have you with me once one more time again today. We've got a really |
| 1:45.6 | interesting interview. I have Dr. Craig Malkin. He's a clinical psychologist. He's an author. |
| 1:52.1 | He's a lecturer at Harvard Medical School. Craig, your book is called Rethinking Narcissism, |
| 1:59.4 | which I find to be a fascinating topic, and I want to get into that. |
| 2:03.6 | But this is something that you've been involved in for quite some time. |
| 2:07.6 | So first, I want to say thank you for being with me, and I appreciate you being with our audience. |
| 2:13.6 | Oh, you're so welcome. It's my pleasure. Thanks for having me, Les. |
| 2:16.9 | Well, and you're a busy band. You teach and you have a private practice and you have a media presence and write. Tell me, how did you get involved in this whole topic of narcissism to begin with? My wife, Jennifer, we both have a wife named Jennifer. That's correct. |
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