Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan

Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan

What Makes Narcissism “Malignant” and Why It Matters for Your Safety

How can we know a difficult person from a dangerous one?

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Dr. Steven Hassan
Feb 07, 2026
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The Spectrum of Self-Importance

Armchair psychologists on TikTok have been posting up a storm, chronicling the symptoms of “narcissists” as if the term represented something you are or aren’t. It seems everybody today is a narcissist or knows somebody who is.

Unfortunately, this does us a disservice by reducing a personality trait to a black-and-white, ru…

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