Providing awareness, identification, education and support for those in, needing more information or recovering from Domestic Violence at the hands of a narcissist.
Do narcissist have empathy? Do they feel compassion towards others?
Why do narcissist use the smear campaign? What purpose does it serve?
Isolation is a part of the power and control wheel not limited to those with NPD, but a part of the arsenal of weapons to tear down those victimized by their abusers. Isolation gives the abuser a pseudo sense of power, yet they fear losing their victim and in turn losing control. Basically, a person is psychologically and often times physically held hostage and terrorized to fear leaving.
The psychological/emotional abuse called gaslighting. Systematically used to sow seeds of doubt and have an individual question their judgement, memory, perception, reality and sanity.
Trauma bonding, Stockholm syndrome, classical and operant conditioning; positive (rewards) and negative (punishment) reinforcement
Idealization, devaluation and discard
What is narcissistic supply? What purpose does family, spouse, children, partners, colleagues or people in general serve for a narcissist? What is primary, secondary and tertiary sources of supply?
Cerebral vs Somatic narcissist; Covert vs Overt narcissists. Lower, mid and high functioning (greater or exhibitionists) narcissists; parasitic, vulnerable, and the malignant narcissist.
In order to understand narcissist abuse you first need to understand the personality disorder known as Narcissistic personality Disorder or NPD. The abuse that occurs is domestic violence, it just so happens that the person who is committing the abuse may have NPD. This type of abuse is deliberate, calculating and severely damaging to those who become intertwined with them. Allow me to take you through the details of how these individuals we call narcissists think, behave and their mode of operation.
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