Sentences with phrase «symptoms of narcissistic abuse»

As a psychotherapist, I work with couples and individuals who present with many symptoms of narcissistic abuse or describe patterns of emotional abuse in their primary relationships.

Not exact matches

For example, in the 1 % or 2 % of the cases in which the child's allegation of sexual abuse incest against a parent is induced and elicited by the pathogenic parenting practices of a narcissistic / borderline parent, in those 1 % — 2 % of cases the likelihood that the child's symptoms were induced or elicited by the pathogenic parenting practices of a narcissistic / borderline parent is 100 % — in those cases.

The presence in the child's symptom display of the three characteristic diagnostic indicators (i.e., the «psychological fingerprints») of the child's psychological influence and control by a narcissistic / (borderline) parent represents sufficient and definitive clinical evidence that the symptomatic child - initiated cut - off of the child's relationship with the other parent is the direct result of the pathogenic parenting practices of a narcissistic / (borderline) parent (i.e., the allied and supposedly «favored» parent), who is using the child in a role - reversal relationship as a «regulatory other» (see my blog essay: Parental Alienation as Child Abuse: The Regulating Other) for the psychopathology of 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.