narcissism
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S Mark Young, a professor at the University of Southern California and author of The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing America, says Federline's book is unlikely to change people's minds about her.
From BBC • Oct. 24, 2025
Salon took these questions to Craig Malkin Ph.D., a psychiatrist and lecturer for Harvard Medical School, who is also the author of "Rethinking Narcissism The Secret to Recognizing and Coping with Narcissists."
From Salon • Sep. 8, 2023
Narcissism and loneliness are hardly interchangeable personality traits and generally are not present simultaneously.
From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2021
The lesson was clear: Narcissism is inherently antisocial and corrosive, and also selfies will cause you to die at the zoo.
From Slate • Dec. 31, 2019
By Narcissism is meant the formulation that a new development is taking place in the infantile Oedipus fantasy.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
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