Life with a Narcissistic Mother
Barb and Laurie interview award-winning filmmaker Gayle Kirschenbaum about her movie “Look At Us Now, Mother!” that captures life with a narcissistic mother. She also talks about how to heal.
Category Archives: Narcissism
How to Handle a Narcissistic Mother – Julie Hanks (Video)
How to Handle the Narcissists in Your Life
by Martha Beck, O, The Oprah Magazine Self-esteem is terrific. Self-esteem run hysterically riot is not. Martha Beck shows you how to deal with the Me! Me! Me! person in your life. (The ego you save may be your own.) Esteem is a warm, accepting quality, and directing it toward oneself is a fine thing.…
Case For Narcissism
By Barbara Wilkov February 2011 I had a very interesting conversation the other day about narcissism with a good friend of mine. I never really even thought about narcissism before launching this website (I certainly never knew how to spell it before Motherrr.com was born!), but it’s actually become one of the most searched for…
Getting Over a Narcissistic Mother
By Carlin Flora, Psychology Today How to get over your narcissistic mom. We tend to throw around the descriptor “narcissist” when we really mean “selfish,” but the term can properly refer to someone who consistently exhibits narcissistic traits as well as to someone with a full-blown Narcissistic Personality Disorder. The APA estimates that 1.5 million…
Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers
Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers – A Painful Psychological Legacy By Linda Martinez-Lewi Ph.D. There are daughters of narcissistic mothers who have barely survived psychologically. In the extreme, there are daughters who starved themselves to death by anorexia as the only way they could find to salvage some small crumb of their existence. We know these…
Karyl McBride Article and Video
What Is Narcissism? By Karyl McBride, Ph.D. The term narcissism is related to Greek mythology and the story of Narcissus. Narcissus was handsome, arrogant, and self-involved-and in love with his own image. He couldn’t tear himself away from his reflection in a pool of water, and ultimately his self-love consumed him. He died gazing at…
Children of the Self-Absorbed
Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-up’s Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents By Nina W. Brown An Excerpt: …As adults, even the most casual interaction with the parents can cause hurt, anger, and feelings of helplessness and impotence. No matter how these “adult children” try to fortify themselves, even anticipating interactions with the parent produces…
Mommie’s Dearest
By Virginia Vitzthum, Elle.com Forget sibling rivalry—how do you deal with a narcissistic mother? The term narcissist is widely misused to mean something like “self-involved egomaniac,” but people with the psychological disorder actually lack a true sense of self. What looks like self-assertion is actually a search: To the narcissist, everyone else is a mirror…