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	The Impact of Narcissism on Leadership and Sustainability
		NARCISSISM is distinguished from true leadership (which shares attention) by narcissism’s use, abuse and exploitation of people, as opposed to enhancing and facilitating the value of others.
		A third factor which reinforces the stranglehold narcissism can have is when people are committed to being "nice" or fair, and as a result are unwilling or unprepared to hold the narcissist accountable for positions or behaviors.
		The narcissism, consumed and driven by the grandiosity, feels responsible for everything; therefore, all failures, frustrations, and disappointments are its fault, and are directed personally at it.
	ceres.ca.gov /tcsf/pathways/chapter12.html (3674 words)

	HOTFLASH! PMS and Narcissism
		Because women are the oppressed in a male dominated society, the narcissism developing from their experience does not have the same sanctified position and acceptance as male narcissism.
		It is male narcissism that is the father of narcissism.
		Male narcissism and female narcissism both stem from the patriarchal male point of view, but female narcissism is a direct result of being oppressed, abused and dominated.
	www.awakenedwoman.com /leslene_narcissism.htm (1708 words)

	Narcissism
		Narcissism appears across families, perhaps through some genetic causes, but also in the way that a narcissistic parent is unable to bond with its children and thus causes it, too, to become a narcissist.
		Narcissism is related to the Oedipus Complex in that Oedipus often follows narcissism and is a method by which narcissism is quelled.
		Narcissism may also contribute to the break-up of capitalist systems as a focus on the self ultimately leads to increased transaction cost and diseconomies of scale.
	changingminds.org /disciplines/psychoanalysis/concepts/narcissism.htm (1061 words)

	What is Narcissism?
		Narcissism is a psychological condition defined as a total obsession with self, to the exclusion of almost all other interaction with people.
		Narcissism is often characterized by a lack of empathy for others, an immature sense of humor, sadistic or destructive tendencies towards other people, and a compulsion to satisfy personal needs without regard for others.
		Early childhood or primary narcissism is thought to be part of the natural growth process, as children focus their energy and attention away from parents and towards an ever increasing subject/object world.
	www.wisegeek.com /what-is-narcissism.htm (563 words)

	On Narcissism
		By contrast the object relations school, represented by Kernberg, argues that narcissism does not result from the arrest of the normal maturation of infantile narcissism, rather a narcissism represents a fixation in one of the developmental periods of childhood.
		Kohut's Theory of Narcissism Kohut believes that narcissism is a normal developmental milestone, and the healthy person learns to transform his or her infantile narcissism into adult narcissism.
		The Existential Perspective of Narcissism Existentialists perceive narcissism to be a byproduct of an alienating society.
	www.studyworld.com /newsite/ReportEssay/Science/Social\On_Narcissism-34103148.htm (5089 words)

	AllRefer.com - narcissism (Psychology And Psychiatry) - Encyclopedia
		In psychoanalysis, narcissism is considered a normal stage in the development of children.
		It is known as secondary narcissism when it occurs after puberty, and is said to indicate a libidinal energy directed exclusively toward oneself.
		A degree of narcissism is considered normal, where an individual has a healthy self-regard and realistic aspirations.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/narcissi.html (262 words)

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		The study of narcissism is a century old and the two scholarly debates central to its conception are still undecided.
		“Primary narcissism" refers to narcissism that is rooted in pre‑Oedipal stages where the infant's illusion of omnipotence is due to his lack of his awareness of the distinction between self and its surroundings (Freud, 1914 "On Narcissism").
		Lasch (1990) theorizes that the goal of primary narcissism is to experience the "complete cessation of tension", the "longing to be free from longing" which is the re‑creation of the "oceanic" contentment of the womb (p.
	www.lycos.com /info/narcissism--sigmund-freud.html (511 words)

	The Dark Age Blog :: Narcissism and its Overcoming (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Beyond narcissism -- that means first, distinguishing self and ego as two distinct aspects of one life process, and second, effecting a psychic distancing of self and ego, just as the artist steps back from his work to gain distance and in order to see his creation as a whole.
		Cultural narcissism -- today in the form of the Consumer; in the past in the form of the idolator -- is the symptom of our nihilism and decadence.
		Narcissism, therefore, needs to be emancipated from the strictures of a too narrow psychotherapeutic model and restored to its place as the most perilous of spiritual maladies and malignancies.
	www.darkage.ca /blog/_archives/2005/9/15/1230943.html (2798 words)

	Narcissism at a Glance
		The main function of such reactive and transient secondary narcissism is to encourage the individual to engage in magical thinking, to wish the problem away or to enchant it or to tackle and overcome it from a position of omnipotence.
		Whether the child develops a normal or a pathological form of narcissism depends on the relations between the representations of the self (the image of the self that the child forms in his or her mind) and the representations of objects (the images of other people that the child forms in his or her mind).
		Narcissism is not merely a fixation on an early developmental stage.
	samvak.tripod.com /narcissismglance.html (2932 words)

	Narcissism - Psychology Wiki
		The terms "narcissism", "narcissistic" and "narcissist" are often used as pejoratives, denoting vanity, conceit, egotism or simple selfishness.
		Of the 18 personality dimensions, narcissism was found to have the highest heritability (0.64), indicating that the concordance of this trait in the identical twins was mainly due to genetics.
		The concept of narcissism is used in evolutionary psychology in relation to the mechanisms of assortative mating, or the non-random choice of a partner for purposes of procreation.
	psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Narcissism (1580 words)

	Narcissism
		Narcissism is defined as "concern for self, feel good about self, erotic feeling aroused by one's own body and personality" (Webster).
		The doctor continues, "When narcissism is for survival, as with the infant and the founding of a country, it is not as destructive as when one is established, successful, and affluent; that no nation has survived success and the guest for immediate satisfaction." He mentions the fall of ancient Rome as an example.
		Narcissism is behind the demise of many fundamental moral standards and institutions.
	www.truthmagazine.com /archives/volume24/TM024193.htm (1846 words)

	Narcissism
		Pathological narcissism is an addiction to narcissistic supply, the narcissist's drug of choice.
		Their narcissism is disarming in its directness, in its cruel and absolute lack of empathy.
		It is as though being cheated by his wife (or husband) rekindles in the narcissist a competitive urge, a possessive streak, and a perverted carnal pleasure.
	www.suite101.com /reference/narcissism (2956 words)

	Narcissism - Fundamental Narcissism
		In narcissism, the experience of the self is disconnected from its core, from the depths of what it is. It is estranged from its true nature, exiled from its primordial home.
		Pathological narcissism is a distortion or an exaggeration of fundamental narcissism.
		Fundamental narcissism is an intrinsic property of the ego-self, which is the self as experienced in the dimension of conventional experience.
	www.ahalmaas.com /glossary/n/narcissism.htm (283 words)

	Mental Help Net - Perspectives - Vol. 6, No. 1 - A Primer on Narcissism - Page 1 of 3
		Narcissism is named after the ancient Greek myth of Narcissus who was a handsome Greek youth who rejected the desperate advances of the nymph Echo.
		The onset of narcissism is in infancy, childhood and early adolescence.
		Narcissism and its pathologies are commonly tackled by the application of the various psychodynamic models.
	www.mentalhelp.net /poc/view_doc.php/type/doc/id/419 (4105 words)

	Narcissism: a genetic trait
		Narcissism is not so much the basis of the "narcissistic personality disorder" of psychiatry as it is a natural, heritable character trait.
		Narcissism (N) The trait of narcissism is noted to be less labile than that of aggression.
		We posit that certain autistic and schizophrenic individuals are those in whom the two components of ambition, i.e., aggression and narcissism, have been suppressed by genetic or environmental factors, either congenitally, in childhood, or after maturity, thus reducing the individual to a primitive state of perfectionism.
	www.homestead.com /narcissism (865 words)

	Kestner, "Narcissism as Symptom and Structure" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The narcissism of these passages is apparent: the combined reflection and the desire to flee, the simultaneous idealisation and debasement of the Other, the longing followed by rejection, the self-exaltation leading to self-disgust, the self-projection leading to self-rejection.
		In the literature of narcissism, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is distinguished by the reciprocal strength of its content and its structure, where the mise en abyme structurally embodies the self-generating, self-contained narcissists of her narrative.
		Mary Shelley has presented symptoms of narcissism in her text which involve the reader 'A symptom is a pain which does not explain itself.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/Articles/kestner.html (4377 words)

	Ideas in Psychoanalysis - Narcissism
		Narcissism is a universal psychological phenomenon, with healthy and unhealthy forms.
		Pathological forms of narcissism may be an attempt to find basic security in the face of environmental difficulty or trauma.
		Echo's 'God-mother' (Juno) is so envious of her relationship with her 'God-father' (Jove) that she blights the father-daughter relationship so essential to healthy female narcissism (the adolescent daughter who knows that her father sees her as beautiful, and who is at the same time utterly respectful of her sexuality).
	www.freud.org.uk /narcissism.html (1085 words)

	Narcissism and Association
		Narcissism is our natural state, one we are born with.
		This concept of narcissism is larger and more basic than the concept of self-interest used by economic theory, which generally describes people as seeking what they believe is in their interest, and avoiding what is not in their interest.
		When this narcissism is paired off with other human abilities, such as our ability to reason, and the struggle for survival, we get the calculating, strategizing characters of economic theory.
	www.transparencynow.com /news/narcissism.htm (1094 words)

	Narcissism and the Psychotherapist
		The book opens with a consideration of narcissism as a general concern for all psychotherapists, introducing the idea of "healthy narcissism" to the therapeutic relationship.
		Elements of narcissism in the related concepts of countertransference and fantasy are examined in an intriguing chapter that outlines the development and definition of countertransference and illustrates, through clinical examples, the uses of therapists' fantasies in psychotherapy.
		Although narcissism is often considered a psychoanalytic term, its scope is not limited to any school of therapy.
	www.guilford.com /cgi-bin/cartscript.cgi?page=pr/welt.htm&dir=pp/paci&cart_id= (746 words)

	EMOTION IN ORGANISATIONS: NARCISSISM v (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Extreme narcissism is a defensive manoeuvre, or brings into being a personal emotional configuration, that allows individuals to defend themselves from the anxiety of oblivion.
		The working hypothesis is while narcissism and social-ism will always be present in organisations, we have to be aware of the consequences as they move to either extreme.
		The working hypothesis is that between the two extremes of narcissism and social-ism, there is an emotional position, which does not take up the ‘either-or’ posture but embraces the ‘both-and’ one, and the way to this is through both generative narcissism and generative social-ism.
	www.sba.oakland.edu /ispso/html/2000Symposium/Lawrence2000.htm (2986 words)

	rhykan: Narcissism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Narcissism is a psychological disorder resulting from a person’s belief that he or she is flawed in a way that makes the person fundamentally unacceptable to others
		The common use of the term "narcissism" refers to some of the ways people defend themselves against this narcissistic dynamic: a concern with one’s own physical and social image, a preoccupation with one’s own thoughts and feelings, and a sense of grandiosity.
		Among psychologists, narcissism is commonly believed to result from an impairment in the quality of the narcissistic person’s relationship with their primary caregivers, usually their parents, in that the parents were unable to form a healthy, empathic attachment to them.
	rhykan.livejournal.com /387831.html (666 words)

	Narcissism Information on Healthline
		Narcissism is the personality trait that features an exaggerated sense of the person's own importance and abilities.
		These traits, related to the adolescent's need to develop his or her own sense of self, do not necessarily develop into the disorder that psychologists have studied for decades, known as narcissistic personality disorder.
		In 1898, Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) was the first psychologist to address narcissism in a published work.
	www.healthline.com /galecontent/narcissism (654 words)

	Misdiagnosing Narcissism - The Bipolar I Disorder
		During this recurring chapter of the disease, the patient is euphoric, has grandiose fantasies, spins unrealistic schemes, and has frequent rage attacks (is irritable) if her or his wishes and plans are (inevitably) frustrated.
		Moreover, psychotic microepisodes in narcissism are decompensatory in nature and appear only under unendurable stress (e.g., in intensive therapy).
		Sleep disorders - notably acute insomnia - are common in the manic phase of bipolar and uncommon in narcissism.
	www.narcissistic-abuse.com /journal71.html (1160 words)

	Narcissism can be as much a hindrance as a help to relationships, new UGA study reports
		Narcissism, it turns out, has many ill-starred variants, and the so-called self-esteem movement may have been completely wrong in saying that a person who doesn't love herself or himself can't successfully love others.
		Clinical narcissism itself is a personality disorder affecting only about 1 percent of the population, but there are millions who share characteristics of narcissists to a greater or lesser degree.
		Narcissism was measured with a standard testing tool called the Narcissistic Personality Inventory.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2002-07/uog-ncb072602.php (893 words)

	Readers Forum: Collegiate narcissism (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Among our best and brightest, most promising, young people, runs a culture of narcissism created by parents who were trying to do everything for their children.
		Narcissism is the driving force, which is motivating, all of us, regardless our age group.
		The individual, so prepared, is tempering, the narcissism, and is using the narcissism selectively, and discreetly, to further the individual's self advancement, as the, appropriate, opportunities are presenting.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/07061/766345-51.stm (3453 words)

	Pathological Narcissism - A Dysfunction or a Blessing?
		Healthy narcissism is a mature, balanced, love of oneself coupled with a stable sense of self-worth and self-esteem.
		Healthy narcissism implies knowledge of one's boundaries and a proportionate and realistic appraisal of one's achievements and traits.
		In short: pathological narcissism is a result of over-sensitivity, the repression of overwhelming memories and experiences, and the suppression of inordinately strong negative feelings (e.g., hurt, envy, anger, or humiliation).
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/npd/90196 (568 words)

	Hoover Institution - Policy Review - The Overpraised American (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For Lasch, writing in 1979, that character structure was an unrelenting narcissism, one that threatened to undermine the rugged individualism of previous eras and, quite possibly, liberalism itself.
		In an afterword to The Culture of Narcissism, Lasch described a culture that has “replaced character building with permissiveness, the cure of souls with the cure of the psyche, blind justice with therapeutic justice, philosophy with social science, personal authority with an equally irrational authority of professional experts.
		Lasch argued throughout The Culture of Narcissism that “The best defenses against the terrors of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.” These were the very things he saw the culture beginning to devalue.
	www.hoover.org /publications/policyreview/2920891.html (5535 words)

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