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Social Behavior

The Toilet Function of Friendship (and Other Relationships)

55 Comments / Relationship Issues, Rules of the Road, Social Behavior, Unbearable Emotion / Joseph Burgo

Some people use their friends as a kind of “toilet” into which they can dump all their bad feelings. These individuals rely on a primitive kind of projection to evacuate experience they are unable to tolerate.

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Narcissistic Behavior and the Lost Art of Conversation

183 Comments / Shame/Narcissism, Social Behavior, Society and Culture / Joseph Burgo

Narcissistic people are usually waiting for their turn to make themselves the subject of conversation and have little real interest in other people.

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Social Behavior

The Toilet Function of Friendship (and Other Relationships)

Narcissistic Behavior and the Lost Art of Conversation

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