Your Child At Risk: How Narcissists Are Made
Channel: Prof. Sam Vaknin
Date: 2021-02-13

Parents manufacture narcissists either by not loving their children enough or by loving them for all the wrong reasons.

The study of narcissism is a century old and the two scholarly debates central to its conception are still undecided. Is there such a thing as HEALTHY adult narcissism (Kohut) - or are all the manifestations of narcissism in adulthood pathological (Freud, Kernberg)?

Moreover, is pathological narcissism the outcome of verbal, sexual, physical, or psychological abuse (the overwhelming view) - or, on the contrary, the sad result of spoiling the child and idolizing it (Millon, the late Freud)?

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