The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism Is Seducing America
April 13, 2009 12:47 PM
by Drew Pinsky and S. Mark Young
Harper Collins, $26.99
In a study of the “soap opera of celebrity behavior,” S. Mark Young of the USC Marshall School and USC alumnus Drew Pinsky MD ’84 examine how celebrity behavior points to a wide-ranging psychological dysfunction that may be spreading to the culture at large: narcissism. Following the study in which the authors discovered that a high proportion of stars suffer from traits associated with the condition, Young and Pinsky explore how these stars and the media are modeling such behavior for public consumption - and how society, especially young people, are mirroring these dangerous traits in their own behavior.
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