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And the burden really does fall on the non-narcissistic parent to be sure to be issuing messages that will counteract the effects of the narcissistic parent - those that might be too harsh, too critical, those that forget to notice the loveliness of the child just being who they are, that forget about their own innate wonderfulness and specialness.

Wendy Behary, LCSW Psychotherapist and Author, shares advice for parents on the best methods for co-parenting with a narcissistic ex following a divorce

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Co-written by Cholodenko (who with her partner conceived a child by sperm donor) and Keeping the Faith screenwriter Stuart Blumberg (a sperm donor when he was in college), the crisply funny screenplay delivers a slyly affectionate poke in the ribs to boomer culture, with its compulsive hyper - parenting and narcissistic introspection on the one hand, and its devoted pursuit of self - gratification on the other.

Molly may have had a great life in New York City — adorable young daughter, great friends, loving parents and a fiercely loyal twin sister — but she also had Barry, a narcissistic plastic surgeon husband who cheated on her with alarming regularity.

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The Narcissistic Parent is a guidebook for legal professionals on pathological narcissism as it influencing parenting practices.

An attachment - based model of «parental alienation» also establishes clear treatment parameters based on a fundamental understanding of the psychological processes involved, which require as the first step the child's protective separation from the pathogenic parenting of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent during the active phase of the child's treatment and recovery.

To protect children from the abuse inflicted on them by a narcissistic parent.

After every session (if the narcissistic / (borderline) parent even allows therapy sessions to occur), the child is asked by the narcissistic / (borderline) parent to report on what occurred during the therapy session.

However, while the child is in the parental care of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent, the child is in a psychological hostage situation and does not have permission from the hostage taker to form an affectionally bonded relationship with the beloved but rejected targeted parent, and the child is instead required by the hostage taker to actively reject the beloved other parent (see «The Hostage Metaphor» article on my website; http://www.cachildress.org).

This set of three symptoms in the child's symptom display represent definitive diagnostic indicators of the distorting influence on the child of pathogenic parenting practices by a narcissistic / (borderline) parent that are inducing severe developmental, personality, and psychiatric symptoms in the child.

Failure to respond to this type of psychological child abuse when it is present is to abandon the child to the severely distorting effects of the psychological child abuse of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent that will have a long - term destructive impact on the child's psychological development, likely influencing future generations of the family as well through the transmission of the effects of the child abuse to the next generation through the future pathogenic parenting of the current child with his or her own children.

The problem in writing a generic letter to the judge is, what happens if it is actually the targeted parent who is the narcissistic parent, who may be inflicting emotional, physical, or psychological abuse on the child, or on the other parent through a history of severe domestic violence?

How can we possibly ask the child to expose his or her authenticity if we can not first protect the child from the certain retaliation that will be inflicted on the child by the narcissistic / (borderline) parent?

The child has been held as a psychological hostage by a narcissistic / (borderline) parent (see «The Hostage Metaphor» article on my website; http://www.cachildress.org), and in that context the child has had to completely surrender psychologically to the psychopathology of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent in order to survive.

What you're facing is a manifestation of the childhood trauma pathology that created the narcissistic / (borderline) pathology of the other parent, which is now being reenacted on you.

Failure to possess the requisite professional knowledge, training, and expertise in attachment theory, personality disorder processes (particularly narcissistic an borderline personality dynamics and their characteristic decompensation under stress), and in family systems constructs (particularly centering on the child's triangulation into the spousal conflict through a cross-generational parent - child coalition against the other parent) which is necessary for competent professional diagnosis and treatment with this «special population» of children and families may represent practice beyond the boundaries of professional competence in violation of professional practice standards.

The possible sexual abuse origins of this «source code» may be at the generational level of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent, representing the possible childhood sexual abuse victimization of this parent, or the «source code» may have entered the trans - generational transmission of attachment patterns a generation earlier, with the parent of the current narcissistic / (borderline) parent whose distorted parenting practices then produced the narcissistic / (borderline) personality organization of the current parent, so that this particular «phrase» of the «source code» (i.e., a role - reversal relationship in which the parent uses the child to meet the emotional and psychological needs of the parent) is being passed on inter-generationally through several generations following the incest victimization trauma.

When this occurs, not only does the child lose a loving and affectionally bonded relationship with a normal - range targeted parent, the child also loses the potential protective influence that the normal - range psychological organization of the targeted - rejected parent can have in lessening the distorting pathogenic influence of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent on the child's development.

And if the targeted parent tries to expose the controlling influence on the child that is being exercised by the narcissistic / (borderline) parent, then the targeted parent is accused of «not taking responsibility» for his or her supposedly bad parenting practices.

When the three diagnostic indicators of attachment - based «parental alienation» (i.e., of a cross-generational coalition of the child with a narcissistic / (borderline) parent involving the role - reversal use of the child as a regulatory object for the parent's emotional and psychological state) are present, if the psychologist does not make an accurate diagnosis of the pathology then the «reasonably foreseeable consequences» would be the child's loss of a developmentally healthy and bonded relationship with a normal - range and affectionally available parent, and the developmental pathology imposed on the child by the pathogenic parenting of the narcissistic / borderline parent.

As part of this discussion, I will also elaborate on the equivalence of narcissistic and borderline personality organizations at the attachment level, and the key role of splitting in the symptom manifestation of «parental alienation» within an attachment - based framework of the construct (i.e., as the child's cross-generational coalition with a narcissistic / (borderline) parent).

«To the extent that parents are narcissistic, they are controlling, blaming, self - absorbed, intolerant of others» views, unaware of their children's needs and of the effects of their behavior on their children, and require that the children see them as the parents wish to be seen.

Borderline anger is more chaotic and disorganized in its intensity, and will typically be combined with tearful displays of supposed victimization because of the alleged «abuse» supposedly being inflicted on the narcissistic / (borderline) parent.

The need for a protective separation of the child is made necessary on two grounds, 1) to protect the child from continued exposure to the psychological child abuse associated with the pathogenic parenting of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent, and 2) to prevent psychological harm to the child during the active phase of treatment as a result of being turned into a «psychological battleground» by the continued active resistance of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent to the goals of therapy, and from the continued motivated efforts of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent to maintain the child's symptomatic state even as therapy seeks to resolve the child's symptoms.

If, on the other hand, the child can read the inner psychological and emotional needs of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent and respond in ways to meet those needs, then the child can stabilize the emotional and psychological functioning of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent and prevent this parent's collapse into disorganization, hostility, and rejection of the child.

The key feature of this conceptual understanding is that the pathology of the parent is being TRANSFERRED TO THE CHILD through the distorting influence on the child's belief systems of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent's pathology.

As the child adopts the role as the «regulatory other» for the narcissistic / (borderline) parent's pathology in order to avoid the emotional collapse of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent into chaotic and unpredictable displays of intense parental anxiety, sadness, or anger it becomes relatively easy for the narcissistic / (borderline) parent to then communicate to the child through clear but subtle «emotional signals» and «relational moves» that the parent's emotional regulation is dependent on the child adopting the «victimized child» role in the narcissistic / (borderline) parent's trauma reenactment narrative.

Our sole diagnostic focus is on the child's symptom display for indicators of the characteristic pathology that can ONLY be the product of severely pathogenic parenting by an allied and supposedly favored narcissistic / (borderline) parent, i.e., the three Diagnostic Indicators of attachment - based «parental alienation.»

I've a stellar history as a loving, nurtuting parent and PTO President, Classroom Aide, At home - hands on Mom, community volunteer and NO ONE helped ME against a BIG bunch of self centered, narcissistic, abusive, bullying, co-dependent, dysfunctional people.

She writes, «The problem with narcissistic parents is that, although the focus seems to be on their child, there is actually very little regard for the child in their parenting style.»

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