Once you clash with a narcissist, you learn quickly that they will initiate psychological warfare.  Being strongly competitive, they naturally think: “I’m right, you’re wrong.  I must be dominant.  Vulnerability…

Ongoing exposure to narcissists reveals their serious anger issues.  A beginning point in their engagements with you is the need to be in control, to establish the rules of engagement,…

As you have ongoing engagements with a narcissist, harmful patterns arise.  Being entitled and selfish, the narcissist has to be in control.  Insensitivity and anger are an ever-present possibility.  Invalidation…

As you discern how to manage your responses to a narcissist, it is important to remember that they do not seek mutuality.  Instead, narcissists think competitively.  Someone is right, the…

The broad spectrum of narcissistic traits guarantees ongoing psychological dysfunction.  When traits like selfishness, control, and manipulation are prominent, it is certain that all sorts of strains will follow.  Predictably…

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…

In some ways, we each seek influence with others.  We might express preferences, share opinions, hold firmly to values, set boundaries, and so forth.  In the best sense, we wish…