Obsessive self-promotion, an aggressive triggering response, and retaliatory rants.

“Both sensitive and incisive, beautifully capturing the paradoxical active of narcissism—that the grandiosity and surrounding bravado belies an underlying fragility and brittleness.” —Kenneth N. Levy, PhD, Affiliate Professor, Penn State University; Mature Fellow, Character Disorders Institute, Cornell School

Even just before Donald Trump entered America’s best office, an international survey revealed that approximately Fragile Bully: Understanding Our Destructive Affair With Narcissism in age Trump narcissism is part of the assumed “nationwide character” of People in america. While only a little number actually meet the requirements for Narcissistic Personality Disorder, those exploitive few have a means of gaining center stage inside our culture.

Delicate Bully: Understanding Our Destructive Affair With Narcissism in age Trump looks beyond the sound bites of self-aggrandizing celebrities and selfish tweets to the true problem of narcissism. We see past the solo act to the vicious circles that arise in relationships with a fragile bully, and how patterns such as this generate both power and self-destruction. We also go through the problem of Echo, how so most of us obtain hooked from the narcissist, and how variations within the harmful affair keep both companions dehumanized and diminished. Once we acknowledge the actions in each dance, we can break through the cycle and allow and the chance of true engagement.