Rethinking Narcissism: The Bad-and Surprising Good-About Feeling Special Audiobook (Free)

Harvard Medical College psychologist and Huffington Post blogger Craig Malkin addresses the “narcissism epidemic,” by illuminating the spectrum of narcissism, identifying ways to control the characteristic, and explaining how inadequate of it may be a bad thing.

“What’s narcissism?” is among the fastest rising searches on Google, and content on this issue routinely go viral. Yet, the term “narcissist” seems to mean something different every time it’s uttered. People hurl the term as insult at anyone about Rethinking Narcissism: The Bad-and Surprising Good-About Feeling Special who offends them. It’s become therefore ubiquitous, actually, that it’s dropped any clear signifying. The just certainty nowadays is that it is bad to be always a narcissist-really bad-inspiring the same kind of roiling queasiness we feel when we hear the words sexist or racist. That’s specifically troubling information for millennials, individuals given birth to after 1980, who’ve been branded the “most narcissistic era ever.”

In Rethinking Narcissism readers will find out that there’s a lot more to narcissism than its reductive invective would imply. The truth is that people all fall on the spectrum somewhere between utter selflessness on the one side, and arrogance and grandiosity on the other. A healthy middle exhibits a strong sense of self. On the much end is situated sociopathy. Malkin deconstructs healthful from unhealthy narcissism and offers clear, step-by-step guidance on how exactly to promote healthful narcissism in our partners, our children, and ourselves.