Welcome to understanding today's narcissists, where we will explore how you can better relate and manage the narcissist in your life.

I am your host, psychotherapist and author Christine Hammond.

The other day I had a counseling session with one of the most difficult relationships to navigate

through, and that is the narcissistic mother and her daughter.

There are a lot of reasons why this is true, and ironically enough, we can see some of those

reasons, even within Disney movies, who constantly

portray the narcissistic mother in their child.

If you think about it for a second, we have Cinderella's stepmother, who is a humiliating

type of a narcissist, who is neglectful and even snubs her own stepchild after the trauma of having lost her father.

Then you can move from Cinderella to Snow White, where Snow White's mother is a cut-throat narcissist, where she just goes after anybody she wants to and is especially obsessed with anybody

who might be more beautiful than her. In this case, it winds up being Snow White. And she

actually tries to kill Snow White because she's more beautiful than her. And finally, we turn

to Rapunzel, whose mother is actually not her mother, as you see in the scene.

Her mother, the mother that she grows up with is actually the person who kidnapped her away from her biological mother.

And this form of adopted mother is a helicopter parent who completely isolates Raponzel from the rest of the world,

even lying about her daughter's birth, demands constant loyalty, and insists that she's always

right as made famous by that song, Mother Knows Best. So having seen that, even in the Disney

movies, we know that if something plays out really well in fiction, it also plays out especially well in real life.

So because art imitates life, we can look at actual life stories of people who have this.

And the other day, I had such an incident where I had a narcissistic mother with her daughter coming in for

session. And to protect people's privacy, we were going to call the daughter Amy. That will make it a lot

easier for us. And so when these two came in for the session, the purpose of the session was because

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