Why Does A Narcissist NEED To Keep You Deflated?
Surviving Narcissism with Dr. Les Carter
Dr. Les Carter
4.8 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Narcissists are predators who are quite willing to exploit and use you for their own personal gain. Dr. C describes their mindset as they engage with you, then he also identifies cues they look for to determine if indeed you will susceptible to their schemes. As you see through their patterns it will position you to remain true to yourself, staying out of the snares they lay in front of you.
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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 |
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| 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. Thanks for joining us for another episode of the |
| 1:07.7 | Surviving Narcissism podcast with your host, Dr. Les Carter. I'm Michaela, the |
| 1:13.0 | program director, and in today's episode, Dr. Carter will discuss why does a narcissist need to |
| 1:19.0 | keep you deflated. Hey there, team healthy. I'm so glad to be with you for yet another of our podcast as we try to |
| 1:31.6 | navigate our way through the world of narcissists and there are many different frustrating ways |
| 1:37.9 | of engaging with you. I'm hoping that you have a good understanding of this pattern of life |
| 1:43.2 | because there's so much of that |
| 1:45.3 | that's out there in front of you. And you know that one of my favorite phrases is knowledge |
| 1:50.3 | is power. The more knowledgeable you are about what you're dealing with and the more you can |
| 1:54.8 | hopefully have a sense of wisdom about you as you engage with these individuals. Today, I want to talk with you about a need that the |
| 2:04.3 | narcissist seems to have strongly that frankly makes no sense. But the question is, why does a |
| 2:13.0 | narcissist need to keep you deflated? Okay. And I know as soon as I say something like that, you're already |
| 2:21.3 | nodding your head thinking, oh yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about. Let me just kind of |
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