The Most Common Signs of a Narcissistic Family
Narcissistic Family Characteristics: The Impact and Survival Guide to Narcissistic Parents
Complex Borderline Personality Disorder: How Coexisting Conditions Affect Your BPD and How You Can Gain Emotional Balance. Available at:
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For part 1 of this 2 part series, we’re going to explore what goes on in the family when a parent or caregiver has narcissistic traits or full NPD. The narcissistic family environment is often filled with challenging aspects that breed selfcontempt, uncertainty, and intense fear, doubt, and insecurity. Knowledge is empowerment, so let’s empower you with knowledge.
Growing up with a narcissistic parent typically entails the following Narcissistic Family Characteristics:
Many family secrets
Abandonment anxiety
Idealized child
Fractured Trust
Emotional Compliance
Triangulation
Misdirected Communication
Indistinct Boundaries
Superficiality
Common implicit messages from narcissistic parent is “just because I’m your mother doesn’t mean I have to care about you. My feelings are more important than yours.” Or “Don’t be so selfish, think about me”.
That selfdoubt, uncertainty, fear of the unexpected, and lack of trust in self and others is often what comes these environments but it doesn’t have to stay that way. You can change it with therapy and focusing on your own growth. The first step is to look at and identify your personality characteristics that grew out of the narcissistic family environment you grew up in.
In the next video we’ll breakdown the personality characteristics of adult children of narcissistic parents.
Daniel J. Fox, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in Texas, international speaker, and a multiaward winning author. He has been specializing in the treatment and assessment of individuals with personality disorders for over 15 years in the state and federal prison system, universities, and in private practice. His specialty areas include personality disorders, ethics, burnout prevention, and emotional intelligence.
He has published several articles in these areas and is the author of:
Complex Borderline Personality Disorder: How Coexisting Conditions Affect Your BPD and How You Can Gain Emotional Balance. Available at:
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Antisocial, Narcissistic, and Borderline Personality Disorders: A New Conceptualization of Development, Reinforcement, Expression, and Treatment. Available at: https://tinyurl.com/2anv8dww
The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook: An Integrative Program to Understand and Manage Your BPD. Available at: https://goo.gl/LQEgy1'>https://goo.gl/LQEgy1
Antisocial, Borderline, Narcissistic and Histrionic Workbook: Treatment Strategies for Cluster B Personality Disorders (IPBA Benjamin Franklin Gold Award Winner): https://goo.gl/BLRkFy
Narcissistic Personality Disorder Toolbox: 55 Practical Treatment Techniques for Clients, Their Parents & Their Children (IPBA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award Winner):: https://goo.gl/sZYhym
The Clinician’s Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment of Personality Disorders: https://goo.gl/ZAVe9v
Dr. Fox has given numerous workshops and seminars on ethics and personality disorders, personality disorders and crime, treatment solutions for treating clients along the antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic personality spectrum, emotional intelligence, managing mental health within the prison system, and others. Dr. Fox maintains a website of various treatment interventions focused on working with and attenuating the symptomatology related to individuals along the antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic personality spectrum (www.drdfox.com).
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