How Narcissists Hijack Your Brain - Dr Peter Salerno - #1068

How do you describe what you do? Someone hasn't met you before, they don't know much about you, you're at a cocktail party. How do you describe what you do? I mean, my work focuses on um, I mean, I'm a psychotherapist. That's kind of like my trade.

I'm licensed as a psychotherapist. I have a a doctorate in psychology, so my background is in psychology and and mental health. I would say what I do specifically is um I do extensive research on the etiology or cause of personality disorders. Like that's the that's the type of diagnosis that I specialize in assessing, understanding.

But one of the reasons I do it is actually not necessarily to treat personality disorders. I do it so that I help people understand um In relationships where there's a personality disorder, there's often toxicity and conflict and strife and abuse, right? And so what I do is I help people uh restore their what I would call their reality confidence following a toxic relationship. Because in these relationships, what happens is the individual who is the victim of somebody who is intentionally manipulative, deceptive.

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