Lukas Klaschinski: The term “narcissism” now has a permanent place in our everyday life and in our colloquial language. The attribution narcissist:in is often used in an inflationary manner. Even in my own environment I have heard that people diagnose others as narcissists. The psychological term actually means “narcissistic personality disorder”. Statistically, only 0.4 percent of the German population have these. So most of the people we call narcissists merely exhibit narcissistic behavioral tendencies, but are not narcissists per se. What exactly is narcissistic behavior and to what extent do we all carry narcissistic parts within us?

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