‘Narcissist’. It’s become a handy insult for anyone who is kind of full of themselves. Donald Trump is a narcissist, Elon Musk, even former prime minister Kevin Rudd was famously diagnosed as a ‘Grandiose Narcissist’ by a psychiatrist who had never even met him 


But what is a true narcissist? How do we spot them? And what harm could they possibly cause? 


Today on Please Explain, lifestyle writer Samantha Selinger-Morris joins Kate Aubusson to tell us about the real narcissists in our midst.

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