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SUMMARY:Module 4: Allowing Vulnerability
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DESCRIPTION: In the introductory material for this course, we considered 4 key traits of the narcissist. One of those traits relates to how we tend to use underhand or manipulative ways to keep people we need close to us. A classic example is “gaslighting.” This refers to the behavior of keeping a partner or work colleague under our control by subtly reinforcing their low self-esteem. The narcissist needs people, even if this need isn’t consciously acknowledged within them. But they learned as kids that feeling or acting “needy” was more likely to cause them to get negatively marginalized. So they began to harden over their inner neediness and focussed instead on learning techniques to bind the people they needed close to them.
Keeping those they need in a state of low self-esteem, or dependency is thus normal for narcissists. Like this, they don’t have to expose their own neediness and appear vulnerable. In the context of neediness, we can thus consider...

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