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  • The Nature and Nurture of Narcissism

  • Understanding Narcissistic Personality Disorder from the Perspective of Gene - Environment Interaction
  • By: Peter Salerno PsyD
  • Narrated by: Peter Salerno PsyD
  • Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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The Nature and Nurture of Narcissism

By: Peter Salerno PsyD
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What Causes Narcissism?
The world has been indoctrinated with the false notion that narcissism is the result of a bad childhood.

It’s as if narcissists have been granted immunity from responsibility. Mental health professionals - and the general public alike - seem more than willing to offer narcissists a perfectly convenient scapegoat: trauma.

The goal of this book, using the most recent empirical evidence on the etiology and treatment of narcissistic personality disorder - is to dispel the widely held and already discredited myth that narcissism is the result of childhood trauma. Despite evidence to the contrary, this widely held myth continues to prevail in popular media and culture.

This book aims to correct the mistakes related to the cause of narcissism so that mental health practitioners and the general public will have a scientifically informed understanding of etiology and intervention. Because the reality is that almost everything we have been taught about the cause of narcissism…is wrong.

©2024 Peter Salerno (P)2024 Peter Salerno

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Thoughtful and well researched

I’ve been studying this for years to understand the impact they have, and only now do I understand it. This should be the definitive work on this topic.

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Clear succinct definitions and descriptions of the making of a personality and the challenges of narcissism. I’m particularly fascinated and proud of Dr Salerno’s authentic approach on comparing old schools of thought on reasons for narcissism to a more scientific and empirical approach. He clearly is able to navigate the listener or reader in understanding how clinicians have had bias confirmation from training regarding the causes of narcissism. It seems to be an accepted line of thinking among the general population of psychologists and psychiatrists and he has definitely put his leg in shark waters but honestly he is able to explain why old schools of understanding don’t work. And are more like pseudoscience than actual science.

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What a Huge relief, so much history and science!

Part of me wishes this was four times as long, people need content like this to lay out how we got to the present stage of acceptance of (non) responsibility as well as what to do with the people who will always be with us -- just a part of human nature.

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