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    The document discusses narcissism and how it is often misunderstood. While there is a "bad narcissist" who lacks empathy, healthy narcissism plays an important role in human development when encouraged through approval from caregivers. Without adequate approval, people can develop narcissistic wounds and low self-esteem, constantly focusing on perceived flaws and anticipating criticism. The reality is that everyone needs love and admiration, and people should work to heal narcissistic wounds by receiving the love that was originally absent.

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    The document discusses narcissism and how it is often misunderstood. While there is a "bad narcissist" who lacks empathy, healthy narcissism plays an important role in human development when encouraged through approval from caregivers. Without adequate approval, people can develop narcissistic wounds and low self-esteem, constantly focusing on perceived flaws and anticipating criticism. The reality is that everyone needs love and admiration, and people should work to heal narcissistic wounds by receiving the love that was originally absent.

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    The document discusses narcissism and how it is often misunderstood. While there is a "bad narcissist" who lacks empathy, healthy narcissism plays an important role in human development when encouraged through approval from caregivers. Without adequate approval, people can develop narcissistic wounds and low self-esteem, constantly focusing on perceived flaws and anticipating criticism. The reality is that everyone needs love and admiration, and people should work to heal narcissistic wounds by receiving the love that was originally absent.

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    Trần Thị Quỳnh Anh – Listening Practice Test 41 – /12

    Why is everyone so worried about 'Narcissism'?


    Narcissism is one of the most misunderstood terms of our time. We’re so aware of the bad narcissist
    - one whose (1)______________________ leaves them no room for empathy or kindness - that we
    are at risk of missing the central role that narcissism should play in the development of any healthy
    human. None of us is able to thrive without a chance to deeply like ourselves. As psychotherapy
    recognises, we universally require a dose of what is termed ‘healthy narcissism’, a sense of our
    lovability and rightful place in the world (2)___________________ via the approbation of kindly
    and enthusiastic care-givers in our early years. In our haste to condemn selfishness and pride, we
    miss out on the (3)_______________________________________ and confidence generated by
    love. If we analyse his situation from a clinical point of view, the mythological Narcissus didn’t get
    (4)______________ his reflection to the exclusion of others because he loved himself too much; a
    good deal more poignantly, he did so because some form of early deprivation must had bred in him
    a need to (5)_____________________________ himself in a doomed search for a value he
    evidently couldn’t believe in.

    Trần Thị Quỳnh Anh – Listening Practice Test 41 – /12

    Why is everyone so worried about 'Narcissism'?


    Narcissism is one of the most misunderstood terms of our time. We’re so aware of the bad narcissist
    - one whose (1)______________________ leaves them no room for empathy or kindness - that we
    are at risk of missing the central role that narcissism should play in the development of any healthy
    human. None of us is able to thrive without a chance to deeply like ourselves. As psychotherapy
    recognises, we universally require a dose of what is termed ‘healthy narcissism’, a sense of our
    lovability and rightful place in the world (2)___________________ via the approbation of kindly
    and enthusiastic care-givers in our early years. In our haste to condemn selfishness and pride, we
    miss out on the (3)_______________________________________ and confidence generated by
    love. If we analyse his situation from a clinical point of view, the mythological Narcissus didn’t get
    (4)______________ his reflection to the exclusion of others because he loved himself too much; a
    good deal more poignantly, he did so because some form of early deprivation must had bred in him
    a need to (5)_____________________________ himself in a doomed search for a value he
    evidently couldn’t believe in.
    Without adequate approval, we develop what is known as a ‘narcissistic wound’ - a feeling of
    profound inadequacy in relation to elements like our looks, our status or our intelligence. As
    wounded people, we will then keep being drawn - despite ourselves - to
    (6)________________________ at our perceived flaws. We’ll be alive to every criticism about us,
    we’ll pick partners who can’t reassure us and we’ll anticipate - and thereby often (7)__________ -
    the end of anything positive or kind. We hear too much about a character who grows evil and
    selfish because they think (8)_____________ themselves. The reality is far more complex and sad.
    Everyone needs to be adored and will suffer immensely if they are not. We should strive to become
    more conscious of our narcissistic wounds and try to (9)_______________________ doses of the
    very same sort of love whose original absence created them. As we need to keep reminding
    ourselves, no one (10)________________ from too much love.

    Without adequate approval, we develop what is known as a ‘narcissistic wound’ - a feeling of


    profound inadequacy in relation to elements like our looks, our status or our intelligence. As
    wounded people, we will then keep being drawn - despite ourselves - to
    (6)________________________ at our perceived flaws. We’ll be alive to every criticism about us,
    we’ll pick partners who can’t reassure us and we’ll anticipate - and thereby often (7)__________ -
    the end of anything positive or kind. We hear too much about a character who grows evil and
    selfish because they think (8)_____________ themselves. The reality is far more complex and sad.
    Everyone needs to be adored and will suffer immensely if they are not. We should strive to become
    more conscious of our narcissistic wounds and try to (9)_______________________ doses of the
    very same sort of love whose original absence created them. As we need to keep reminding
    ourselves, no one (10)________________ from too much love.

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