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narcissistic personality
narcissistic personality Narcissistic personality is described here as a pattern in which a person relies on an idealized, performative sense of self to defend against deep insecurity and existential anxiety.
Narcissistic personality is described here as a pattern in which a person relies on an idealized, performative sense of self to defend against deep insecurity and existential anxiety. In this account, both grandiose and vulnerable forms are understood as different ways of coping with the same disturbed relationship to self, others, meaning, and mortality.