Dr. Ramani Durvasula, PHD

Dr. Ramani is a cosmic badass. She is a great example for us as mental health professionals who are women of color. Inherent in our identities is often the experience of more encounters with narcissism. And Dr. Ramani sheds light to that experience., both personally and professionally. She is a real pioneer.

Dr. Ramani's talks on narcissism has been the missing element to the conversation on mental health, especially in America. I can say this earnestly as a fellow mental health professional AND as someone who is a narcissistic abuse survivor. She knows what she is talking about and is brave to give us language about this issue, even if it can feel like a bitter pill to swallow. The best medicine typically does not taste good, and I think this is why one has to be ready to actually hear what she is saying. I don't believe that she is in it for the money despite what others think or how it might appear. She is earnest, sincere, and at times appropriately vulnerable, which makes me trust her more. Most clinicians with her experience would not have created such an affordable healing program for anyone to access or free on YouTube. I am grateful for her guidance at times when I felt really stuck in my life.

She has one diagnosis - NPD. She's making a lot of money convincing unhappy women that all of their problems are caused by "narcissist" partners - no self reflection, it's all "his fault". She's dangerous. STAY AWAY !!!

Overpathologizes people and stigmatizes diagnoses to the point where the conversation is not productive. Not everyone you dislike has NPD. She creates a good echo chamber online for people who were hurt by someone in the past, but I wonder how helpful that is for getting people out of patterns. Her pattern is pointing fingers, and it is a dangerous approach for mental health professionals and very different from holding people accountable. Striving to be in the limelight is very controversial for mental health professionals and the fact that this one focuses so much on NPD is intriguing... This is from a fellow Ph.D.

Has helped me greatly in my own personal growth and in me having an understanding of myself and experiences.

She over-diseases strangers to dismiss people different from her as we saw it for her own power gains?