Smear Tactics
Understanding Today's Narcissist
Christine Hammond, MS, LMHC
4.6 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
How does a narcissist control you? Christine covers the 5 ways, the tactics they use in a relationship to smear you - understanding these tactics can help you out-maneuver the narcissist.
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| 1:19.4 | And now here's your host, Christine Hammond. |
| 1:27.2 | Today I want to talk about the five different ways a narcissist will smear you. |
| 1:34.0 | And the reason we're going over this is because this is a very popular tactic that the narcissist does not only to try to control you, but also very popular if they suspect that you're about |
| 1:48.5 | ready to head towards divorce. So of course, this isn't a spousal relationship that I'm referring to |
| 1:55.5 | where you're married to a narcissist. But it can also apply, quite frankly, to a work environment where your |
| 2:03.9 | narcissistic boss might be afraid that you're going to leave or even get a promotion. |
| 2:09.7 | And so they will do these same exact tactics in order to keep you from being able to get a |
| 2:16.3 | promotion and to get ahead. And I had a personal |
| 2:21.4 | example from this. This actually happened to me when I was working at a large corporation. |
| 2:30.0 | And I had a boss at the time that was just unrelenting on top of me, hated everything I did. |
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