But even then it is within the traditional socially allocated roles. Yet, these again are traditional social roles. Men are likely to emphasise intellect, power, aggression, money, or social status. Another difference is in the way they react to treatment. Women are more likely to resort to therapy because they are more likely to admit to their psychological problems.
Women are also more likely to ask for help than men.
Children happen to be more available to the female narcissist due to the still prevailing prejudiced structure of our society and to the fact that women are the ones to give birth. It is easier for a woman to think of her children as her extensions because they once indeed were her physical extensions and because her on-going interaction with them is both more intensive and more extensive. Through insidious indoctrination, guilt formation, emotional sanctions, deprivation and other psychological mechanisms, she tries to induce in them a dependence, which cannot be easily unravelled. But, there is no psychodynamic difference between children and money, or intellect, or any other Source of Narcissistic Supply. So, there is no psychodynamic difference between male and female narcissist.