by MPODev MPODev | Feb 4, 2019 | Magazine
It’s a painful way to live, because no amount of adoration will ever be enough. After every victory, feelings of envy, anger, and frustration squirm back to the surface. Now, Behary says, Trump is “unraveling.” This, too, is predictable, which is why we need to talk...
by MPODev MPODev | Jan 25, 2017 | Magazine
Trump has spent so much time obsessing over the size of the crowd that witnessed his swearing-in and broadcasting false claims about it. “He has to believe it,” Behary said of his fixation. “He consciously overrides the ‘truth’ because the ‘truth’ would be fraught...
by MPODev MPODev | Nov 16, 2016 | Magazine
In severe cases, Behary said, her patients can be so narcissistic, so immune to normal incentives and cost-benefit evaluation, that she has to take a different approach. “It’s a strategy where you actually fill the narcissistic supply,” Behary said. Whereas in most...
by MPODev MPODev | Sep 28, 2016 | Magazine
Everybody knows a Trumply personality: a blowhard, a conversational demagogue, a constant, forceful center of attention. But, as Behary warned me over the phone yesterday, if you want to defend yourself from the narcissist at work, or at Christmas, you need to grasp...
by MPODev MPODev | Mar 3, 2016 | Magazine
We’re living in an age of narcissism, and the onslaught of selfies and obsession with social media prove it. “Now, more than ever before, there’s an emphasis on status and appearance, says Wendy T. Behary, author of Disarming the...
