The Many Faces Of A Narcissist's Control
Surviving Narcissism with Dr. Les Carter
Dr. Les Carter
4.8 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
At its best, the desire to be in control can lead to qualities like reliability, responsibility, organization, and completion of tasks. But when narcissists attempt to be in control, their self-absorption and entitlement leads them into all sorts of less-than-desirable behaviors and attitudes. Dr. C teaches you how to know when a narcissist is in high control mode, and most importantly, what it reveals about that person.
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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 |
| 0:11.6 | sponsored by BetterHelp.com. A BetterHelp is a leading provider of online therapy and then they |
| 0:17.6 | provide video, phone, or live chat sessions with a licensed professional |
| 0:22.1 | therapist. It's affordable and you can connect with your therapist within 48 hours. Now, as a special |
| 0:28.3 | offer to our surviving narcissism listeners, they'll offer a 10% discount for your first month |
| 0:34.4 | of professional therapy. All you have to do is go to betterhelp.com. |
| 0:38.7 | That's betterh-h-E-L-P dot com slash surviving narcissism podcast. I know that many of you would find |
| 0:47.3 | online therapy to be quite life-changing. And so go to betterhelp.com slash surviving narcissism |
| 0:54.1 | podcast. And many thanks to the people at |
| 0:56.9 | BetterHelp for sponsoring our podcast. Welcome to this week's episode of the Surviving Narcissism |
| 1:08.3 | podcast. I'm Michelle, the program director, and I would like to start |
| 1:12.1 | this episode with a quick introduction. For those of you not familiar with surviving narcissism, |
| 1:17.9 | it is the product of many years of work done by Dr. Les Carter. Dr. Carter is a best-selling |
| 1:23.0 | author and therapist with more than 40 years of experience specializing in anger management and narcissistic |
| 1:29.3 | personality disorder. This week, Dr. C's topic is the many faces of a narcissist control. |
| 1:42.1 | Hello, Team Malthy. Dr. C here again, and I'm so pleased to be with you one more time. |
| 1:47.5 | Hey, before we get going, I just want to let you know, I really appreciate you allowing me to be on |
| 1:51.8 | your journey with you. I know that many of you have encountered some very difficult people |
| 1:57.1 | along the way on your journey and you're trying to make sense of it all. |
| 2:01.4 | And when we talk about narcissism, we're really talking about human nature about what makes |
| 2:07.4 | people tick. And it kind of gets to the core of so much of what can go potentially wrong |
| 2:13.5 | in a relationship. And it's necessary for us to have an education about it so that we're not |
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