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Should I stay or should I go now?

The Therapy is Dandy Guidebook to having a Narcissist for a Parent. Chapter 19. An ongoing survival guide. More often than any other dilemma facing an adult child of a narcissist, is whether or not to stay in any contact … Continue reading

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Help, a narcissist is crashing my wedding! Or party or whatever.

The Therapy is Dandy Guidebook to having a Narcissist for a Parent. Chapter 18. An ongoing survival guide. This one is a special delivery: for all the approaching weddings, summer barbecues, graduations, coming of age rituals, or whatever that the … Continue reading

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Narcissist Family Values.

The Therapy is Dandy Guidebook to having a Narcissist for a Parent. Chapter 14. An ongoing survival guide. Narcissist Family Values. The way people arrive (or don’t) at their own value as a human being is complex and complicated (and, … Continue reading

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Therapy is Dandy Guidebook to have a Narcissist for a Parent. Chapter 10.

An ongoing survival guide. Chapter 10. Suit up. In the last chapter I brought up the idea of psychic armor, or the suit, this week we take the suit in for some alterations. One of psychology’s more interesting and bizarre … Continue reading

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The Therapy is Dandy guidebook to having a narcissist for a parent. Chapter 2.

An ongoing survival guide. Chapter 2. Tactics. If you already suspect one of your parents to be a narcissist, you may have tried to talk to them about your concerns. And it probably didn’t go very well. Narcissists are extremely … Continue reading

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