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Narcissistic parents may be neglectful of the child and focus on their own self-absorbing interests instead. “Narcissistic parents will struggle to empathize with their children if they ...
But Dr. Little also very much stresses the impact of the quality of the relationship: “Parents who are most likely to raise non-narcissistic children see their child as ‘good enough’ and ...
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A narcissistic parent will often abuse the normal parental role of guiding children and being the primary decision-maker in a child's life, becoming overly possessive and controlling. This possessiveness and excessive control weaken the child; the parent sees the child simply as an extension of the parent. [10]
Sigmund Freud originally used the term narcissism to denote the process of the projection of the individual's libido from its object onto themselves; his essay "On Narcissism" saw him explore the idea through an examination of such everyday events as illness or sleep: "the condition of sleep, too, resembles illness in implying a narcissistic withdrawal of the positions of the libido on to the ...
Object relations theory suggest that a child's false self is called into being when it is forced prematurely to take excessive care of the parental object; [9] and John Bowlby looked at what he called "compulsive caregiving" among the anxiously attached, as a result of a parent inverting the normal relationship and pressuring the child to be an ...
Breaking up is hard to do, but a clean break is undeniably the best kind. Unfortunately, a clean break isn’t in the cards when you share a kid with someone. Enter co-parenting. Although rarely ...
Under-discussed, however, is what narcissism looks like in an adult child. As the parent, handling this situation can be especially tricky ( as parent and adult child relationships often are ).