Ep 304 - Mark Vicente | The Narcissist’s Playbook
About this episode
Mark Vicente discusses the themes of his documentary 'The Narcissist’s Playbook' and the parallels between cults and personal relationships.
Mark Vicente returns to the show — South African filmmaker, twelve-year NXIVM survivor, and one of the central whistleblowers in HBO’s The Vow — for a conversation timed to the release of his new documentary The Narcissist’s Playbook. Years of interviewing self-confessed narcissists, cult survivors, and clinicians have given Mark a clear lens on what most people sense but can’t name: the same pathology that runs a cult runs a marriage, an activist movement, a political party, a society. Dissociation is the operating system. Mimicry is the mask. The pathology of the leader becomes the blueprint of the whole. Underneath all of it, Mark argues for the unfashionable thing — that authenticity is a dying breed, that the only real antidote is returning to your own feeling, your own stillness, your own discernment. The conversation ends in hope, earned the hard way. (00:00) Cold Open (00:37) Opening Conversation (02:26) Show Start (03:14) Narcissist's Playbook Film (08:47) Defining Narcissism / Interviewing Narcissists (13:34) Trauma or Choice (20:14) Narcissistic Injury (23:29) Power and Politics (27:56) Psychopath Acting Tricks (34:30) Facing Inner Rage (36:35) Cults and Low Vibe…
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