When Scapegoats Escape Inward To Survive Narcissistic Abuse
You may have heard the saying that when you point a finger at someone else there are always three fingers pointing back at you. There’s…
You may have heard the saying that when you point a finger at someone else there are always three fingers pointing back at you. There’s…
In my experience, scapegoat survivors of narcissistic abuse often find it very difficult to take the narcissist’s behavior towards them at face value. When the…
Imagine a child who’s three years old and is exquisitely conscious of the child’s smallness and needfulness. At times he feels a continuity of that…
This question comes up a lot in my experience with survivors of narcissistic abuse. And how can it not? If you have to live under…
I want to talk about a destructive tactic used by a narcissistically abusive parent and how you can begin to heal from it and live…
Do you find it difficult to know your own opinion in life? Do you tend to regard others as the ‘experts’ and defer to their…
If you have survived narcissistic abuse then you likely felt singled out and treated with unbridled contempt and devaluation. I think that one of the…
Being the scapegoat in a narcissistic family is to be saddled with all of the narcissistic parent’s problems and sent into exile. The scapegoat child…
Someone who had survived narcissistic abuse as the scapegoat in his family of origin recently described what it was like for him to play his…
Today I would like to focus on the psychology of a narcissistic mother or father and why it is so likely to end in abuse…