2) A personality disorder pathology can be created / induced by a narcissistic parent through various manipulations that cause the child to adopt that parent's
narcissistic traits toward the other parent.
Not exact matches
I have generally seen this pattern with males as the alienating parent (perhaps because of the higher prevalence for males to display
narcissistic and antisocial personality
traits), with mothers then being the recipient of the child's (teenager's) excessive violence and threats (as a vehicle in expressing the father's
narcissistic and antisocial violence
toward the mother).
The child's symptom display directed
toward the targeted parent represents a set of specific
narcissistic and borderline personality
traits that are being acquired by the child through the distorted pathogenic parenting practices of the allied and supposedly favored parent.