The problem with narcissism is, \u201cwhat exactly IS it?\u201d\u00a0 A quick run through Google indicates it is \u201cAn excessive preoccupation with one\u2019s own personal importance, or with achieving one\u2019s own chosen goals rather than bonding with others, or with associating only with others whom one chooses.\u201d\u00a0 So, what is excessive here?\u00a0 An excessive lack of preoccupation with one\u2019s own personal importance or preoccupation with bonding with others at the expense of self is lack of boundaries or perhaps co-dependency.\u00a0The problem, as always for me, with these diagnoses is that they are extremely difficult to define.\u00a0\u201cI can\u2019t tell you what it is, but I\u00a0know it when I see it\u201d.\u00a0 I assume most wagon train leaders, most\u00a0inventors and many entrepreneurs would meet these criteria.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
So, I would ask you, as I do in the\u00a0assessment process, to go all the way back to the behavioral issues.\u00a0 What exactly are the problems\u00a0\u201cthis\u201d person is demonstrating that lead people to decide he\/she is narcissistic?\u00a0 With those, we can perhaps pin down what some expected brain activation patterns might look like.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Narcissism The problem with narcissism is, \u201cwhat exactly IS it?\u201d\u00a0 A quick run through Google indicates it is \u201cAn excessive preoccupation with one\u2019s own personal importance, or with achieving one\u2019s own chosen goals rather than bonding with others, or with associating only with others whom one chooses.\u201d\u00a0 So, what is excessive here?\u00a0 An excessive lack […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":201,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"topic":[775],"class_list":["post-39336","answer","type-answer","status-publish","hentry","answer_topic-library-of-symptoms-problems-and-goals"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n