Covert Narcissist's Hidden Psychopathic Rage (Clip: Narcissism Summaries Channel)

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The video explores the psychological trajectory from covert narcissism to psychopathy through a vivid depiction of life as an unmitigated failure filled with humiliation, social anxiety, and delusional beliefs that others are conspiring against one's unique self-image. The speaker uses Adolf Hitler as a stark example, suggesting that his early years were defined by constant rejection and the inability to achieve success despite feeling special, which eventually pushed him toward psychopathic behavior. This narrative illustrates how the intense pressure of perpetual failure and the need for grandiosity can distort reality, leading individuals to perceive persecution where none exists or to believe they are the center of vast conspiracies involving governments and neighbors alike. A central argument presented is that traditional diagnostic categories used in psychology are flawed, antiquated constructs driven more by insurance industry requirements than scientific rigor. The speaker contends that personality disorders like narcissism, paranoia, depression, and schizophrenia share a common "schizoid core" rather than being distinct entities, making the practice of assigning multiple labels to patients both misleading and counterproductive. Instead of focusing on whether an individual has Borderline Personality Disorder or Major Depressive Disorder, the discussion shifts toward recognizing that human beings are constantly changing subjects who cannot be treated like immutable clinical objects such as tuberculosis; therefore, rigid checklists fail to capture the essence of mental health issues which often stem from a fundamental sense of being misunderstood or persecuted. The transcript concludes with a strong critique of psychology's claim to scientific status, contrasting it with physics while acknowledging that great thinkers in the field were actually authors and philosophers rather than empirical scientists. The speaker argues that the proliferation of diagnoses is largely a commercial phenomenon designed to facilitate insurance payments and pharmaceutical sales, leading patients to be labeled with numerous conditions simultaneously without clear benefit. Ultimately, the video suggests that labeling people does not help resolve relationship conflicts or personal suffering; instead, it encourages individuals to focus on fixing their own feelings or moving on from toxic environments rather than getting entangled in futile debates over psychiatric labels that serve corporate interests more than patient well-being.

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[music] >> Imagine going through life constantly failing, constantly feeling mocked, ridiculed, and humiliated, constantly having referential ideation, in other words, believing that other people are talking about you behind your back and scheming against you. Imagine going through life where everything you ever wanted you will never get, and you know you will never get because you don't have the personality to get it. Imagine looking around you and seeing people identical to you, narcissists, actually succeeding where you fail repeatedly. Imagine Imagine being besieged with social phobia, social anxiety, shyness. Imagine feeling that you're unique and special, but no one acknowledging it ever. On the contrary, you're considered [clears throat] to be, you know, a nobody, a loser. Imagine going through life like this. Um someone like Adolf Hitler, for example, probably thought Adolf is a covert narcissist. Because, you know, he spent all his life trying to convince people that he's special somehow, as an artist, as a politician, as And until age 35, at least, he had been a total unmitigated failure in everything he had ever tried to do. For someone like Adolf Hitler, this easily could push him over the edge to psychopathy, which of course ultimately did. >> So, what you seem to be suggesting that personality disorders are sort of malleable. It's often the case that narcissists become psychopaths and psychopaths uh you know, like So, are narcissists likely to also engage in antisocial activities? Uh are they often Has there ever been a case that a narcissist has been identified with conduct disorder and it's later found out that he's not a he's not >> Sorry, I I again ask you I again ask you to increase your voice and to talk more slowly. It's very difficult to understand you over this connection. My apologies. Please increase your voice seriously and talk more slowly. Thank you. >> Uh so I was I was just talking about the malleability of narcissist of all of these personality disorders. >> Yes. >> Because when you describe for instance that the covert narcissist feel that he's being persecuted. Now that ties in with the schizoid personality disorder of those with schizophrenia and they often experience feelings and so persecution. Right? So uh you know it's very difficult to for a layperson to make sense of these things and you know to sort of find out whether a person has uh narcissism or depression or borderline personality disorder. And uh it's also difficult for uh for therapists because it is often the case that they are misdiagnosed. So I'm wondering how many of the cases that we have now are actually uh misdiagnosed and what harm it eventually does to the person and to the people around them. >> First of all, laymen should not attempt to diagnose. They're not qualified, they're not trained. And it would be a serious mistake to attempt to diagnose. These diagnoses are based on mountains, sometimes decades decades long mountains of research and studies and and so on and a layman would be wrong to try to diagnose cancer and the layman would be wrong to try to diagnose personality disorders. That's point number one. Point number two, these diagnoses increasingly seem like wrong. These differential diagnoses, these distinctions between at cluster B personality disorders, and not only cluster B, honestly, but I would say all personality disorders. These categorical diagnoses, diagnoses which are based on lists of criteria, seem to be seem to be a totally wrong approach and a very antiquated one. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual edition four was published in 1994. Edition three was published in 1980. That's 40 years ago. A lot has happened. So, we think these diagnoses are counterproductive, to say the least. And we are trying to unify everything into a single diagnosis, which essentially means something is wrong with this guy. Now, let's see what mostly is wrong. So, I don't think it's very helpful or productive to to insist to ascertain whether someone is a covert narcissist or a psychopath or depression or We realize, for example, that at the core of all all these personality disorders, there's something called the schizoid schizoid core. So, we now realize that schizoid or schizoidism has a lot to do with these disorders. We, for example, are reconceiving of paranoid personality disorder as a form of narcissism. Because the paranoid believes that he is sufficiently important for the CIA to to go after him. It's a form of grandiosity. To be paranoid is a form of grandiosity because you you believe yourself to be sufficiently important to be the focus and the center of a conspiracy. Yeah? A conspiracy of your neighbors, a conspiracy of the state, doesn't matter, but people are interested in you. So, even paranoia probably is a form of narcissism. Um so, gradually, I think what will happen, there will be a single category of personality disorder, and all these questions will will be rendered moot and totally irrelevant. We will if you have an intimate partner who is problematic as far as you are concerned there are two possibilities. Either that intimate partner has some mental health issue or as often you have a mental health issue. What matters is not which one of you is mentally ill. Labeling, guilt-tripping, blame-shifting, blame assignment these are futile exercises. What matters is if you are with an intimate partner and you feel bad either try to fix it or move on. It does not really matter if your intimate partner has depression cyclothymia, dysthymia, schizophrenia. I mean, who cares? Who cares about this nonsense? You're feeling bad in your relationship, move on. You're feeling bad at the workplace, resign. I mean, who cares about all this? Anyhow, you can't take upon yourself to fix people or to save people. That in itself is pathological. And people are very fixated on labels. Labels matter a lot in medicine. Because in medicine we have objective, immutable clinical entities. Tuberculosis is tuberculosis in Ghana, China, in the in the steps of Siberia, and in Montreal. Tuberculosis is the same everywhere. Because it's the same everywhere we can administer a course of treatment which would work equally well equally well on the moon. So but this is not the situation in psychology and in psychopathology and clinical psychology and abnormal psychology. We can't even agree on the name of the discipline. It's this is not a science. We are dealing with human beings. Human beings are very bad raw material because they change all the time. And you can't replicate experiments. Now, psychologists like to pretend that they are scientists. Some of them even wear white lab coats and they think it makes them scientists, you know? And they use very sophisticated statistics, which makes makes them feel very self-important. But psychology is a pseudoscience. It will never ever be a science because it is it it studies it studies objects or subjects which are constantly ever-shifting and ever-changing, which renders experiments irreplicable. And does not allow to generate a sufficient number of hypotheses to be falsified. Now, I'm talking about this with absolute certainty because my PhD is not in psychology. It's in physics. And I can tell you there's a hell of a difference between physics and psychology. One is a science, the other is literature. Now, you can of course write rigorous literature. The greatest psychologist ever to have lived was Dostoevsky. The second greatest was Freud, who was not a psychologist, but a neurologist. So, and these people were authors of literature. Literature captures the human soul. Literature captures the essence. The attempt to introduce diagnosis was driven by the insurance industry, not by psychology or any psychologist that I'm aware of. This is a totally new development in the '80s because insurance companies insisted on the ability to remunerate therapists in accordance with checkboxes. These checkboxes were imposed on the profession. No serious professional psychologist or professor of psychology would would tell you that they are distinct categorical diagnoses that have nothing to do with each other. That's why most people are diagnosed with multiple disorders. We never have a case of a patient who is diagnosed with one disorder, but usually four, five, six, even 10 is common. What does it tell you about the profession? That it sucks. Simply sucks. If you go to a to a doctor and you have tuberculosis, you're likely to be diagnosed with tuberculosis. You may have additional phenomena like edema, this, that, but generally tuberculosis. If you go to a therapist or a diagnostician, you're likely to be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, dysthymia or major depressive disorder. I don't know what else. I mean I mean you are likely to come out ADHD. I mean you're likely to come out of the session with five diagnoses, if you are lucky. If you're lucky. And with nine different types of medication, which is very helpful to certain corporations. I am I have a very dim view of my profession. Very dim view. It's been corrupted by money, in insurance, money in pharmaceutical in the pharmaceutical industry. So, I'm very wary about all these delineations and distinctions which are pretensions to science. >> That's a very strong statement that you're making psychology is pseudo-science, which I think the majority of psychologists will disagree with you. >> Of course they will disagree. How else would they make a living? >> Will you will you say that it's pseudo-science at the level of something like homeopathy or astrology, things like that? >> No. Because it is based on rigorous observations of identifiable subjects. And because we're all human and share the same wetware, hardware, and software, the brain, well, some of us do. Um some some of these observations and so on are likely to be uh universally applicable.