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The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism Is Endangering Our Families—and How to Save Them by Drew Pinsky
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For teens, as for toddlers, it’s critical that the self-gratifying impulses of the amygdala are frustrated, so that they may develop appropriate self-control and independent function.
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