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Tag: Covert Narcissist

Shameful Core of Covert Narcissist: Inferior Vulnerability Compensated

The video explored the role of shame in narcissism, distinguishing between grandiose (overt) and vulnerable (covert) narcissistic types, with shame being significantly more prevalent and impactful in vulnerable narcissism. It highlighted that vulnerable narcissists experience intense shame, linked to feelings of inferiority, failure, and negative self-evaluation, whereas grandiose narcissists suppress or deny shame through defensive mechanisms. The discussion incorporated psychoanalytic and social psychology theories, emphasizing shame’s critical role in the development, manifestation, and regulation of narcissistic behaviors and its implications for clinical diagnosis and treatment. Shameful Core of Covert Narcissist: Inferior Vulnerability Compensated

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02.11.2025

How Covert Narcissist Deceives Covert Borderline and He Loves It (2nd in Odd Couples Series)

This video explored the complex dynamics between covert borderline and covert narcissist personalities in intimate relationships, highlighting their psychological interplay, emotional compatibility, and conflicts. Key points included the covert borderline’s capacity for real love and moral rigidity contrasting with the covert narcissist’s envy, deception, and emotional dysfunction, creating a turbulent and often adversarial relationship. Despite significant incompatibilities, the covert borderline’s longing for idealized love and the covert narcissist’s deceptive fulfillment of that fantasy often bind them together in a dysfunctional but enduring cycle. How Covert Narcissist Deceives Covert Borderline and He Loves It (2nd in Odd Couples Series)

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29.10.2025

Overt+Covert Narcissist in One Person: Self-supply (44:17), Binary Narcissism

The speaker discusses the concept of a system of residuals in narcissism, where two distinct narcissistic self-states—overt and covert—can coexist simultaneously within one individual, leading to internal conflict and dissonance. This binary system arises when neither state is effective alone, resulting in self-supply dynamics through mutual hostility and fantasy defenses. The speaker suggests that this state, while challenging, presents a unique therapeutic opportunity to induce vulnerability and promote healing through educational and empathetic interventions. Overt+Covert Narcissist in One Person: Self-supply (44:17), Binary Narcissism

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17.10.2025

Covert Narcissist’s Abuse=Coercive Control?

Focused on distinguishing covert narcissistic abuse from typical narcissistic abuse and emphasized the manipulative, passive-aggressive, and somatic nature of covert narcissists who often use networks of allies to harm their targets. It clarified the concept of coercive control, highlighting it as a rare, premeditated, and criminal behavior involving terror, social isolation, invasive monitoring, deprivation of basic needs, and total control within long-term intimate relationships. The discussion stressed that coercive control differs significantly from narcissistic abuse, being a calculated strategy primarily associated with psychopaths, and should be recognized and fought against accordingly.

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21.07.2023

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