“The corporate master of interpersonal relations was also a pretty good description of a narcissistic personality. They had the same traits: the charm, the ability to inspire enormous loyalty and affection in people, but at the same time the incredible distance from themselves and others. The way these people tended to burn out at a certain point in midcareer when the youthful charm begins to fade and they find they can no longer manipulate people in this way. An inner emptiness floods to the surface and a lot of these people become suicidal. It sounds very much in some ways like Chapman’s
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