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Narcissism

From a trait to a personality disorder, and whether the people at the far end of it can be treated at all.

FilterEveryone, all time5 from 3 people
Group All Scientists 1Writers & journalists 1
Who Everyone WBWendy Behary 3 RHRob Henderson 1 SFSigmund Freud 1
When All time Past 1 yearPast 3 yearsPast 5 years
  1. RH

    Rob Henderson quoted

    Psychologist and writer

    Our readingPeople who are highly narcissistic do not make the best friends, even if they are popular at first.

    Their wordsPeople who love themselves the most do not make the best friends.

    ↗Marriageable Women, Informants, Ego-Shockrobkhenderson.com 3rd of 3 in this piece

  2. 6 years earlier
  3. WB

    Wendy Behary quoted

    Psychotherapist, founder of The Cognitive Therapy Center…

    Our readingNarcissists can change meaningfully in therapy, though nobody changes completely, and most of the work is persisting with empathic confrontation past the first rebuff.

    empathyPsychotherapy

    Their wordsIn 30+ years of working with narcissistic men mostly - yes, it is possible for people to change. And even narcissists can change. Now, I don't really believe anyone changes completely, but it is possible to get meaningful change.

    ↗ERP 226: How To Understand And Deal With a Narcissist, an Interview With Wendy Behary [Transcript]drjessicahiggins.com

  5. WB

    Wendy Behary quoted

    Our readingNarcissism runs along a spectrum rather than being a category, and schema therapy treats it by working back to what early life embedded.

    PsychotherapySchema therapy

    Their wordsthe approach that I use is called Schema Therapy, and Schema Therapy is designed to work with very complex personality types, personality disorders, and even those that are happening along a spectrum

    ↗ERP 226: How To Understand And Deal With a Narcissist, an Interview With Wendy Behary [Transcript]drjessicahiggins.com

  7. WB

    Wendy Behary quoted

    Our readingNobody living with a narcissist should feel obliged to become their therapist.

    Psychotherapy

    Their wordsAnd no one should feel burdened to become the therapist of the narcissist in their life. It's not your responsibility as a partner, as a child of a narcissist, or even a friend.

    ↗ERP 226: How To Understand And Deal With a Narcissist, an Interview With Wendy Behary [Transcript]drjessicahiggins.com

  9. SF

    Sigmund Freud quoted

    Founder of psychoanalysis (1856 to 1939)

    Our readingFeuds between neighbouring, closely related peoples are a relatively harmless outlet for aggression that makes group cohesion easier

    Their wordsI once interested myself in the peculiar fact that peoples whose territories are adjacent, and are otherwise closely related, are always at feud with and ridiculing each other, as, for instance, the Spaniards and the Portuguese, the North and South Germans, the English and the Scotch, and so on. I gave it the name of ‘narcissism in respect of minor differences’, which does not do much to explain it. One can now see that it is a convenient and relatively harmless form of satisfaction for aggressive tendencies, through which cohesion amongst the members of a group is made easier.

    ↗Civilization and Its Discontents (tr. Joan Riviere, 1930)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book