Dr. Drew Pinsky, host of Celebrity Rehab, and Dr. S. Mark Young, a social scientist, are calling the kettle black in their new book, The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism Is Seducing America.
I can't begin to review this book (which I really liked) without wondering how Dr. Drew Pinsky, reality TV star, can pass judgment on America's celebrity culture, particularly reality television stars. WTF, Dr. Drew? But that said, I'll put aside my gaping astonishment surprise and look at Dr. Pinsky's thesis.
Dr. Pinsky thinks celebrities are more narcissistic than your average Joe. And he's proven it, by doing a statistically relevant study with social scientist Dr. Young. Narcissism, in clinical psychological terms, is apparently not self-love but self-loathing and the inability to form a sense of self without input from others.
It gets pretty interesting then, going into the different aspects of narcissistic personality disorder and how you might go from being a normal kid to a narcissistic one. The book ends with the same test the celebs took, which of course I took with relish. I ended up with a score of 12. You'll have to read the book to know where I fall on the scale, I guess, 'cause I'm not telling.
It's fascinating if you can get past the hypocrisy.
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