Some years ago I wrote a piece entitled ‘I am the Alienator*’ which has now been read over a hundred thousand times in over thirty countries around the world. This piece, which was actually written from the house where I was working with a diagnosed narcissistic parent, is really nothing more than my observations of how two parents with personality disorder behaved towards each other.
Whilst narcissism is an issue which appears to be used routinely by lay people in conjunction with parental alienation, it is not as common as it is made out to be. Diagnosed narcissistic personality disorder is rare in the UK ( perhaps because clinical psychologists are encouraged to formulate not diagnose, or perhaps because true narcissistic personality disorder IS rare) and so it is not often that one gets the opportunity to work directly with parents who suffer from it. What I observed in…
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Madison Elizabeth Baylis 