Here's how a narcissist becomes a narcissist.

Parents naturally want their children to feel special – but showering them with praise can sometimes do more harm than good ...

As our familiarity with modern therapy and its buzzwords has grown, so has the amount of people taking a critical view of the ...

Children of narcissists adapt to survive, learning their parents' rules at the cost of their own selves. This is how that ...

The trauma caused by a narcissist lasts for generations. Even when other family members acknowledge them as unhealthy, families with narcissistic parents can be incredibly dysfunctional and have ...

Narcissists have unstable self-esteem: Narcissistic parents are preoccupied with trying to keep their shaky self-esteem high. They relate to their children as either assets that reflect well on them ...

Narcissism has become a catchall label for a range of frustrating behaviors. Here are some misconceptions about what it means ...

No one had a perfect childhood or perfect parents. But some, unfortunately, grew up with a narcissistic parent—a person so focused on themselves that they warped their kids's whole identity and sense ...

Good parenting requires empathy, compassion and the willingness to make some of your needs secondary — essentially, many of the traits that you wouldn't find in a narcissist. But as a psychologist who ...

Get more balance in those "me, me, me" conversations.

This story discusses child abuse. If you are a child being abused, or know a child who may be facing abuse, call the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline at (800) 422-4453, or go to ...