On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A, we talk with psychotherapist and author Ross Rosenberg about the human magnet syndrome, self-love deficit disorder, trauma, addiction, narcissism, and his life.

Welcome to Narcissist Apocalypse, everyone with me today. I have Ross Rosenberg. How are you?

Brandon, despite the many technical difficulties that I've shared with you that we conveniently are leaving out of this show,

I am fantastic. Thank you for inviting me. Well, thank you for coming. And I forgot to say that,

as you said, my name is Brandon. I am Brandon Chadwick. And today, you know, Ross Rosenberg,

some of you may have heard of him. Some of you may not have heard of him.

I'm about to read you a long list here.

And I don't know if anyone has seen Rocky 4.

And when Apollo Creed is coming to the ring, he had so many nicknames.

So here we go.

I'm about to go down a list here of, of Ross Rosenberg, everyone.

You are a psychotherapist, educator, expert witness, and author.

You have written the book, The Human Magnet Syndrome, which I think a lot of people have read in our community.

You've sold 145,000 units of that.

You created the term self-love deficit disorder, which, you know, people have heard the term

codependency, and you were like, no, I'm not having anything to do with that.

And, you know, our show is interesting in the sense of how we try to have people understand

what is going on in their life as well and not just to look at the abuser and look at

the abuse tactics that are being used. But why are these tactics being used? Why do they work on

you specifically and why those tactics may not work on somebody else? And indirectly, we use a lot of your concepts.

At first, I didn't even know that I was even doing that until someone said, hey, you have to go read this book.

You have to understand what Ross Rosenberg is doing and really get to the nitty gritty instead of these little ideas that you have.

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