The Psychology of Josh Powell (Chapter 6 - Turning Point)
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Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 31 May 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Hey deserves, this is chapter six in our deep dive on the psychology of Joshua Powell. |
| 0:07.0 | Let's get into it. My name is Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and a professor who are you burrow? |
| 0:13.0 | My name is Umberto Cassagna and I clean clouds. |
| 0:17.0 | So to review where we've been at this point in the story they are in their 20s they have two kids they're |
| 0:26.2 | in Utah Joshua and the family just had to declare bankruptcy because Josh has racked up $200,000 in debt. |
| 0:36.4 | This leads us up to what I think is a turning point for Josh. |
| 0:41.9 | And I'm speculating a lot about his state of mind because he didn't write |
| 0:46.7 | about this specifically in his journal but I think this might have been happening. |
| 0:50.5 | I think by this point he probably is suspecting that he'll |
| 0:57.0 | never be successful. I think a big part of what would keep him going in life was this dream and hope and assumption that he would be |
| 1:08.4 | rich and famous. If he did suffer from narcissistic personality shorter, that is a must. You, maybe not necessarily |
| 1:17.5 | prestige and power and rich and famous, that is often a narcissistic dream and goal and assumption but for other people with narcissism it might be that |
| 1:27.2 | they're going to make the perfect family or they're going to look perfect or whatever. |
| 1:32.8 | But a lot of people with narcissism |
| 1:35.6 | have aspirations of being rich and famous, |
| 1:39.4 | which could either drive them |
| 1:41.1 | to do what it takes to be rich and famous, |
| 1:44.0 | or they will just invent that they're rich and famous |
| 1:48.0 | and lie about it or something, or have fantasies. |
| 1:50.0 | So for Josh, I think that he had that dream and yet with his career he kept conflicting |
| 1:59.7 | with management saying that Josh knew better and he would get fired and I imagine it was a |
| 2:05.9 | fairly complicated syndrome for him. So at this point in 2007 when they declared bankruptcy he's 31 and at this point he has to admit |
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