Narcissism Exposed

19 SIGNS YOU WERE RAISED BY A NARCISSISTIC MOTHER OR FATHER LEARNING HOW TO UNDERSTAND AND MAKE PEACE WITH YOUR CHILDHOOD IS ONE OF THE MOST HEALING AND EMPOWERING EXPERIENCES YOU COULD EVER GO THROUGH. As the son of a drug-addicted mother and totally absent father, I know how important it is to come to terms with your parent’s mental illness. When we were children, we looked up to our parents for support, encouragement, nurturing and love. But when we were denied these things, we developed a variety of beliefs, behavioral patterns and coping mechanisms to help us survive in such a difficult environment. As adults, we often play out these same coping mechanisms, often to our own detriment. The thing about being the child of a narcissistic mother and/or father is that it often contributes to something known in shamanic terminology as soul loss.  Soul loss  is the inability to contact or experience our souls due to the unresolved wounds, traumas and fears we’ve accu...

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of The Covert Narcissistic Personality Disorder (Closet): A Developmental Self and Object Relations Approach By JAMES MASTERS A therapist baffled by a therapeutic impasse with a “borderline” patient Asks for a consultation and gives a good description of the patient’s clinical picture: depression, difficulty with self-assertion, clinging in relationships and with the therapist, difficulties with anger and impulse control, an inadequate sense of self, and denial of self-destructive behavior. The diagnosis of borderline personality disorder of the self seemed correct, and the therapist used the appropriate therapeutic intervention of confrontation. However, the patient, rather than integrating the confrontations to develop a therapeutic alliance, instead responded either by attacking the therapist and becoming more and more resistant, or by seeming to integrate the confrontations, but without a change in affect or the developi...