With the girl before ME T, you can see just how dark Dr Phil is. She really touches the truth when she says his team twists her answers just to get viewers. He can't handle the truth. He is usually very calm, but that angered him to hell and back. So he goes like me me me the great me I don't need you bitch. But he says it in this really polite way you do when you want to crush someone. "I hate to burst your bubble..." (... but you are nothing and I'm everything). Sure, she as one person doesn't change the show, but she is absolutely right, he wouldn't have a show without people to mistreat.
She really touched a nerve, because I haven't seen him that vile. He doesn't ever get that way with people who have committed horrible crimes to OTHERS. But now HE feels attacked and his true narc self slips out and screams DESTROY. He talks to murderers and that doesn't anger him. This "attack" angered him to talk in a loud, angry voice he never uses otherwise.
And THEN he is supposed to interview a sociopath? It's ridiculous. He is much older, he is famous, he as played the sociopath game longer than she has. Squish squish. LOL.
And the short clip where she says she cuts herself and that is a hallmark of sociopathy... NO, she doesn't say that in the long clip, at all.... All she says is that she lacks self preservation and doesn't learn by mistakes. I can relate to this myself. I am also fearless in situations where you should feel fear. That is a handicap and you really have to watch out. Whether it is a solely sociopathic trait I don't think so, but fearlessness sure can be part. I have this even though I am not a sociopath and it is not like he made it sound, that the goal is to do self harm. It just happens you get in trouble because your fear is not there to guide you. I am safe with knives but I almost drowned, I almost froze to death, because I am fearless of the elements. It's not like I'm looking to be harmed.
Dr Phil wins. He is the biggest narc of them all. Also, if someone really exposes him for what he is, he can just edit that out.