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welcome to this week's episode of the surviving narcissism podcastissism Podcast. I'm Michaela, the program director,

and I would like to start this episode with a quick introduction. For those of you not familiar with

surviving narcissism, it is a product of many years of work done by Dr. Les Carter. Dr. Carter is a

best-selling author and therapist with more than 40 years of experience,

specializing in anger management and narcissistic personality disorder.

This week, Dr. C's topic is, what drives a malignant narcissist?

Hey there, Team Healthy. I hope this day finds you well, and I hope that you're in a learning mode,

because that's exactly what I'm hoping we can do here today. I'm going to dive in today and zero in on the concept of malignant narcissism.

Now, perhaps you've already heard of that term malignant narcissist or malignant narcissism. And actually, it was a term that was coined by Eric Frum, who's one of the giants in the field of psychology.

But when we talk about a malignant narcissist, this is what we're referring to when we refer to somebody who's all the way down on the narcissistic spectrum.

You know, you've heard me say before that narcissism is indeed a pattern on a spectrum.

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