This is self-work and I'm Dr Margaret Rutherford.

At self-work, we'll discuss psychological and emotional issues common in today's world and what to do about them.

I'm Dr. Margaret and self-work is a podcast dedicated you taking just a few minutes today for your own self work

Hello welcome or welcome back to self work. I'm so glad you decided to join me.

I'm a clinical psychologist in Fayetteville, Arkansas and about a year ago I decided to extend the

walls of my practice, to reach out to people about what I talk every

day with my patients about the very diverse topics that they bring in anxiety

depression relationship issues all kinds of things. Maybe you've been in

therapy or are in therapy and self-work can act as an addition to your own

counseling or your own understanding of yourself or perhaps you've never even

considered therapy. So welcome to self-work. Today's topic is

narcissism. We're going to talk about the definition actually of

narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder. We'll mention a little bit

about healthy narcissism, what can look like narcissism, but may not be.

And the major focus today will be on the five things you can take responsibility for that will

help you be in a relationship with

someone with narcissism. We'll talk about different techniques that narcissists

typically use to keep people in their place that they're in relationship with such as gas

lighting and after we've talked about that I'm going to read as I do every week an

email from a listener and by the way I love getting emails. Thanks so much for asking your questions.

This woman who is adopted is trying to establish boundaries with a mother who has borderline personality disorder.

Borderline personality disorder has some similarities with narcissism,

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