2025-05-23
17 分钟You spend time, even today,
dealing with patients who are the victim of a narcissistic relationship or the victim of a narcissist.
Every week.
Every week.
I mean, it's probably one of the, if not the most gratifying part of my week.
I'm a big believer that if you're a mental health practitioner, you practice mental health.
So that's a privilege to be able to be in that room and to work with clients.
But it would be so easy when you're dealing at a macro level.
large populations going on YouTube,
writing books to get distanced from what is happening to individual people's lives.
One of the tricky bits with research is we study populations.
We study samples, right?
We study hundreds of people.
What happens in the room is something very different.
And you start to recognize, A, how badly these relationships harm people,
their schemas of the world, their schemas of themselves.
And B, how much potential for intervention there is with these clients through very,
very simple approaches around education about narcissism,
validation of their experience, breaking through self-blame and teaching them to trust themselves.
So how many patients do you think you've seen that have been victims of narcissists?