Not exact matches
Many people's
personalities would rate somewhere on the
narcissistic spectrum; it's when the narcissism begins to intrude negatively into their lives, causing
serious problems at work or home, that it starts to stray into disorder territory.)
In severe cases there is a high probability that the alienating parent has
serious psychological problems such as dramatic, erratic unstable disorders including borderline
narcissistic or sociopathic
personality.
It doesn't matter what it's called, but it represents severe distortions to family processes as a result of a cross-generational coalition of the child with a
narcissistic / (borderline) parent that is creating
serious developmental (diagnostic indicator 1),
personality (diagnostic indicator 2), and psychiatric (diagnostic indicator 3) pathology in the child, which defines it as «pathogenic parenting.»