The Gaslight Report: Understanding Narcissism, Addiction, and Neuroscience with Frank R. George, PhD
Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan
Dr. Steven Hassan
4.7 • 843 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Dr. Stephen Hassan with another episode of my podcast, cults, culture, and coercion. |
| 0:10.9 | And I have a distinguished guest with me. I've been looking forward to this interview for a long time. |
| 0:17.3 | Dr. Frank R. George is a PhD in psychology from the University of Colorado. |
| 0:22.6 | He's an internationally established expert in psychology, neuroscience, narcissism, and addictions. |
| 0:30.6 | He was a senior fellow and chief of behavioral and biomedical, biochemical genetics at the National Institutes of Health for six years. |
| 0:41.9 | Dr. George, man, of you definitely rock it, currently ranks within the top 1% of Google Scholars |
| 0:49.8 | worldwide with nearly 200 publications, over 30 patents worldwide. |
| 0:55.8 | Wow. |
| 0:57.0 | Your work's been cited nearly 4,000 times in scientific literature. |
| 1:02.3 | And for us, newbie scholars, that's like, whoa, that's really impressive. |
| 1:09.1 | And 10 years ago, noting that pathological narcissism looked very much like a form of addiction, |
| 1:15.8 | you morphed your background into a focus on pathological narcissism, |
| 1:21.0 | where you've worked ever since. |
| 1:23.4 | So you were the head of the Colorado chapter of the duty to warn, |
| 1:27.1 | a group composed of tens of |
| 1:28.7 | thousands of mental health professionals, including my friend Bandy X. Lee, who edited the |
| 1:35.2 | dangerous case of Donald Trump, whose mission has been to warn about Donald Trump being unfit |
| 1:42.5 | for office. |
| 1:50.5 | You've appeared on 16 minutes, 2020, Rolling Stone, a million other places, your legal expert witness, and you have a substack called The Gaslight Report by Frank George. |
| 1:56.7 | I'm on substack too, so we should do a substack live sometime, George. |
| 2:01.6 | But welcome. |
| 2:03.3 | And please thank you for your work first and foremost. |
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