If all celebrities are really just narcassists what does that say about the rest of us who pore over the tabloid stories about them?
Back in days of old I remember watching Love Lines on MTV with Dr. Drew and Adam Carolla. Teens used to call in with sex and/or drug questions, Adam would use them as comic fodder for ridicule and then Dr. Drew would kick in with some sage pop-psych advice in the course of a few minutes. Did it help these kids? Who the heck knows. But it was good watching to keep up with the the state of teen angst. That was a long time ago. I sort of thought Dr. Drew’s 15 minutes were up.
Not so, as it turns out. According to this story at Wired, Pinsky is back with a new book which asserts that:
1) Most all celebrities are suffer from narcissistic personality disorders even before they becomefamous;
2) Hollywood, the press and basically you and I encourage them to become even more mentally unbalanced by the attention we collectively heap on them;
3) All this irresponsible behavior becomes normalized in society and replicated by other budding narcissists who post similar drunken, drugged or sexed-up antics on their Youtube videos and Bebo profiles. Read the rest of this entry »