It’s virtually impossible to overestimate a narcissist’s need for Alternate Reality.  They have a longstanding fear of vulnerability which has led to covering the Real Self, composing a False Self,…

As a therapist, I was never shocked when I learned that decent people became pulled in by lousy circumstances.  No one is immune from psychological pain or dysfunction, but the…

It’s frustrating enough to witness narcissists being self-absorbed, controlling, condescending, and so on.  But narcissists will take their pathology a step further by displacing their psychopathology onto you.  Unwilling to…