Discussion with peers about narcissism Damon LaBarbera writes: There is a pop phenomenon on the net—preoccupied with the notion of narcissism. Everybody is a narcissist, just like every dis-likable or acting out male years ago was a sociopath or years before that was a latent homosexual and every troublesome woman a borderline. What hath Christopher Lasch wrought... Clients are coming in with a new vocabulary associated with narcissism. It's a snake oil vocabulary that tends to mislead and with the clients I have dealt with, is unhelpful. DL Dr. Auerbach writes: I always have mixed feelings, go figure, about touting my credentials in the area of narcissism. My early publications, albeit now a long time ago, were in this area, however, so I suppose I qualify as an expert. I have no idea whether Meghan Markle even remotely has a narcissistic disturbance, although I wondered this about Stewart Cook, given the vehemence and the lack of empirical grounding of h
