Thank you for the reply. I specifically did want to say something to you and I hope I can do it adequately. Narcissus was born to an intact family with no financial problems. He was not deprived. Looking at the whole of humanity, he was priveledged. In spite of an abundance, he never had enough. His highly rated school was not "good enough" for him. He never had a teacher" good enough" for him. No one on the face of the planet has been "good enough" for him. Obviously, he is delusional. We look at his delusion as a manifestation of his disease. As he complains about the "defective" people in his world we put his complaints in perspective and know that Narcissus is the problem, not the world. Why then, when Narcissus says in therapy that his parents were not "good enough" for him, does anyone believe it? I would contend that in the vast majority of cases Narcissus' parent were and are "good enough" for him. Blaming his parents is just a convenient excuse. It gets him sympathy and makes him feel special. I think we need to consider that current psychotherapy for Narcissus does not work. Could this be because the etiology is incorrect. The treatment doesn't work, maybe we have mis-identified the problem. If we keep doing what we have always done, we will keep getting what we have always gotten. Nacissism needs to be looked at in a new way and we need to consider other root causes in order to find treatments that do work. The answer to how I ended up with Narcissus is that he is also a she and she is my mother.
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