Using Healthy Narcissism for Success, From a Psychotherapist

“Narcissism refers back to the sense all of us have of ourselves — the regard we maintain ourselves in, the ways in which we focus — and generally fixate — on ourselves,” Matt Lundquist, a Columbia University-trained psychotherapist and founder and medical director of TriBeCa Therapy, tells Entrepreneur.

Narcissism is not inherently pathological for a person or different folks, Lundquist says, however the time period is so incessantly used “as a pejorative” that the concept that narcissism might be regular, wholesome — and even underdeveloped in some situations — falls by the wayside. One want look no additional than so-called “#NarcTok,” the place folks use the prognosis “as a stand-in for all method of disagreeable behaviors and character traits.”

In actuality, classifying somebody as a “narcissist” in a medical psychopathology context implies “they’ve an impairment in narcissism that’s extreme sufficient to trigger issues in how they’re working on the planet,” Lundquist explains. They might have narcissistic traits or what’s termed within the Diagnostic and Statistical Handbook as a Narcissistic Persona Dysfunction, he provides.