Parental narcissism

Resolutely defining her values as antithetical to her mother’s, she has nevertheless found herself trapped in a life that seems to confirm her mother’s contemptuously low expectations. I call this patient Alice, in part because of my association to Alice Miller, whose Prisoners of Childhood: The Drama ofthe Gifted Child (Miller, 1981) first opened the eyes of the wider public, including many mental health professionals, to the problem of parental narcissism.-- Enter Ghosts: The Loss of Intersubjectivity in Clinical Work With Adult Children of Pathological NarcissistsDaniel Shaw, L.C.S.W. The National Institute for the Psychotherapies
Category:Narcissism
Category:Family