Hello deserving listeners, it's just me today.

I thought I would talk about narcissistic parents,

because a patron emailed in and asked to talk about that,

asked me to talk about that.

So here we go.

This is the Psychology and Seattle podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda.

I am a professor and a therapist.

The patron wrote in and said, hi Kirk.

My daughter is currently in your program, so she shared your

podcast with me and now I'm hooked. And I've been a patron for a while now. I would like you to know,

I would like you to do a show on narcissistic parents. Okay, so let's get into that. Well, first off, there

are many definitions of narcissism that have been established over the years in the field of

psychotherapy. Some people consider narcissism to be in the realm of a

personality disorder whereas other narciss spectrum of narcissism and at the extreme end they have a personality disorder.

Some people might say that all people are basically narcissistic because all people are at their core self-interested.

Versus other people might say

that only a few people have narcissism.

Some people in my field would say that narcissism is healthy

while other people would say that it's an unhealthy

trait to have.

Some people might say that it's a normal part of development.

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