Get ready for a thread.
One of the privileges of therapeutic work is being welcomed into the inner life and sacred story of another human being. Yet, when you engage the story-work with someone who is diagnosably narcissistic, (in much the same way as it works with an addict) 1
This same dynamic characterizes collective narcissism. 3
Groups like this will always be with us. But... 5
These kinds of groups were frightening to us when they flew planes into the Twin Towers. They ought to be just as frightening ... 7
In the end, these are groups that come and go throughout periods of history, who fizzle out ultimately because they've embraced a smaller story, a story unworthy to be called a Gospel (or good-news!) Story. 8
