NARCISSISTIC CHILDREN

Narcissistic children



Narcissistic children

Introduction

Narcissus is characterised as a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and need of empathy that begins by early adulthood and is present in a variety of contexts (Frances, 714). Individuals with this disorder have an exaggerated sense of self-importance; they routinely overestimate their adeptness and inflate their accomplishments, often seeming boastful and pretentious. Narcissists own an overstated sense of significance in relation to themselves and their work. Their work and self come first while other persons, especially close, intimate connections, become less important. Concerned with self-promotion, narcissists show disdain and a lack of consideration for other people, while upgrading them.

Ashort History of Narcissism

In 1898, Ellis first used the term narcissism in relation to psychology phenomena when he describes a special state of auto-erotism in which sexual feelings become absorbed in self admiration. Freud later incorporated the period into his psychoanalytic idea in his 1914 term paper 'On Narcissism'. Freud considered narcissism a sexy perversion engaging a pathological sexy love of one's own body. These two ideas cite developmental problems in childhood as causal factors premier to the development of Narcissistic disorder, while others suggest that society as a entire causes the disorder. Since then some other psychological theories have tried to explain and heal the disorder. However, the psychodynamic perspective of Narcissism boasts the most comprehensive explanation of the disorder.

The Psychodynamic View of Narcissism

Two overlapping schools of considered dominate the psychodynamic form of Narcissism: the self-psychology school comprised by Kohut and the object relatives' school represented by Kernberg. Kohut proposes narcissism is a constituent of everyone's psyche that we are born with the disorder. Kernberg contends that narcissism represents a fixation in ones of the developmental time span of childhood.

Narcissistic children

Otto Kernberg's outlooks of narcissism are founded on Mahler's theory of separation. Consisting of an one-by-one method of parting, from infancy to early childhood. The evolving progeny profits a stable self-concept by mastering two foremost phases, usual autism and symbiosis, along with four other sub stages: differentiation, practicing, rapprochement, and consolidation of separation-individuation. Kernberg contends that an one-by-one is unable to effectively master the rapprochement sub stage and becomes repaired at this level. At age 10 to 14 months starts the development stage, in which the progeny discovers to walk. This proficiency, presents a entire new viewpoint for the child thus giving a sense of grandiosity and omnipotence, which resembles a narcissist behavior. At age 14 to 24 months the child goes into in the rapprochement sub stage finding that he or she has bounds of what he or she can do. If the child is severely frustrated they adapt by refusing or consequently coming back to the performing sub phase. This will be his or her security omnipotence and invulnerability.

The narcissistic child has a grandiose sense of self as evidenced by difficulty tolerating anything in which he is not immediately successful. Failure to maintain efforts in academic work or activities involving learning new skills is a common ...