I Bet You Think this Post is About you (Narcissism and Divorce, Part I)

I bet you have met more than a few narcissists along the way. This is the first of a two part series on narcissism, in which we will discuss narcissism in the midst of a malignant divorce. While the upcoming DSM V will no longer recognize narcissism as a personality disorder, clearly extreme narcissistic characters still exist. So, where do we find narcissists in everyday life? While the eccentricities of dictators could be written off as a result of too much power or too much fame, distorted personalities of this nature do exist amongst regular human beings. Sometimes, this personality distortion can surface during times of stress, a phenomena I refer to as a Character Trap. And the heavy stress of many divorces can bend otherwise normal — albeit, perhaps selfish — people into dangerously manipulative individuals. Were you married to a narcissist? Read More