Shameful Core of Covert Narcissist: Inferior Vulnerability Compensated

Shame is a powerful, defining dynamic in vulnerable, fragile, shy, covert narcissism. Not so in the grandiose-overt variant. Time to redefine pathological narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)?

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