Published on HuffPost July 23, 2017, at 1:46 pm ET People with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) are exceptionally skilled abusers with a kind of algorithm that makes their abuse particularly destructive. The NPD Equation unstable identity + lack of self-esteem…
Published in The HuffPost 5/09/2017 at 7:21 p.m. E.T. Lacking a moral compass or the ability to act selflessly, narcissist parents create devastating havoc and damage in the lives of their kids. Unlike emotionally mature parents whose priority is to meet…
Ah, the intersection of narcissism and social media. It’s a match made in heaven, or hell, depending on how you look at it. Because the narcissist personality survives and moreover thrives on attention, reaching innumerable people at the speed of…
Published on The Huffington Post April 22, 10:59 p.m. ET. When she went to college, Ali of Portland, Oregon, was surprised to find herself telling a friend that she hated her father. The friend asked if her father had abused her,…
Narcissism is the talk of the town these days, but this pathological and socially toxic condition remains widely misunderstood. The true narcissist has a personality disorder that causes complex and insidious misery to him-/herself and to those around him/her. The…
Published on The Huffington Post on 4/16/2017 You’ve figured out that one or more of your parents are narcissists. They may be hardcore, with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), they may have narcissistic traits, or they may be a complex collection…
The last few decades have delivered some knock-out performances of narcissist mothers in both film and television. Absurdly funny, selfish, grandiose, scheming, cruel, violent, or a bedeviling mix of all of the above, you’ve got to hand it to the…
Published on The Huffington Post 3/28/2017 at 9:36 p.m. ET. Narcissists have an extensive arsenal of weapons to shield and bolster themselves against their underlying shame and insecurity. Always attempting to control the narrative, narcissists go to what for most…
This article was originally published on PsychCentral on 3/20/17 Because of their underlying emotional instability, repressed shame, and compensatory grandiosity, combined with a lack of empathy, narcissists play by different rules than the rest of us do. Here is a…
Although narcissists would never admit it, they are by nature dependent on other people for their emotional survival. If they were loners, many lives would be spared immeasurable misery. But the narcissist actively, persistently pursues others to obtain “narcissistic supply,”…