Narcissism narcissistic behavior therapy narcissistic personality

arcissism, narcissistic injury and healing

Maxson J. McDowell

Maxson McDowell PhD, LMSW, LP

Jungian analysis. Jungian analyst new york city analysis

is a senior Jungian analyst/therapist who has practiced in New York City for the past 22 years. He is the secretary and past president of the C. G. Jung Foundation in New York.

A lively podcast and illustrated articles about narcissism, narcissistic behavior, narcissistic mothers and daughters, and therapy.

Narcissistic personality disorder is caused by a severe early injury to healthy self-love or self-esteem. A person with a narcissitic personality disorder is unlikely to seek therapy.

But everyone has some narcissitic injury, even if the effects are only temporary. Everyone shows narcissistic behavior sometimes. Injury occurs whenever our self-esteem or sense of self is hurt. We show narcissitic behavior whenever we lose our temper, or seek attention too much, or take a criticism too personally.

Narcissistic injuries hurt our relationships, our creativity and our career success, and they steal our pleasure at our achievments and our good fortune.

If mothers (or fathers) have a narcissitic personality disorder, or if they have less serious narcissitic injuries, then they will injure their daughters' or sons' self esteem. Therapy can help adult children understand their hurt and heal their injuries.

In the menu you will find several lively articles on narcissistic injury.

To consult: (212) 873-1491 maxmcdowell@jungny.com

To read an article you may want to copy-and-paste it whole into Microsoft Word. Then print it, or save it as pdf and email it to your Kindle.

Jungian therapy Jungian analyst Jungian therapist Carl Jung analysis Jung New York City. About therapy . Jungian analysis: home page. Jungian analysis and biology . Readings for dream interpretation class. Dream interpretation . Jung's terminology . Depression: therapy. Narcissism and its discontents (listen) . healing narcissism: introduction . Narcissism and its discontents (read). Narcissism NYT 1988 . Daughter flees narcissistic mother (listen) . Daughter flees narcissistic mother (read). The feminine, sexuality and narcissism. Healing narcissistic injury and addiction: Tahaki of the red skin. Illustrated (broad band) . Healing narcissistic injury and addiction: Tahaki of the red skin. Illustrated (dial up) . Healing narcissistic injury and addiction: Tahaki of the red skin. No illustrations . Depression, creativity, and narcissism: How Tahaki lost his red skin. Tahaki of the golden skin. Tale only . Close colleague. Colleague's office. My office. How Hinauri found her second husband (listen) . A daughter is buried alive but her mother rescues her (listen) . Daughter weaves consciousness. Diirawic kills her incestuous brother and marries a lion . An indescribable beauty and the devil's daughter . The Stealing of Tuyarima Kuo (another Yakut tale) . Anxiety at being individual: Sinuhe. The island of the serpent. Active imagination: introduction. Jung's Red Book. Active imagination using paints. Active imagination: von Franz. Active imagination: Jung, 2 essays. Active imagination: Jung, Vol 16. Jung: Vol 8. Jung: 2 essays. Jung: Vol 16. Jung: Vol 8. Intro to tales of feminine. Duang and his wild wife. Janet and Tam Lin. Fitcher's bird. The woman who became a spider. Sedna. The Magic Orange Tree. Island of the serpent: facing the unconscious. The tale of the two brothers. Language and theory of mind. Link page. Please link to this site. Autism paper: start page. Anima and animus: invisible partners. The three carnations. Eye-contact, complex dynamic systems, a direct cause of autism. Online audio class: introduction. Enter online classroom. Next class's dreams. Classmate's photos. Kae and the whale. The eagle-boy. Students' comments. Autism's direct cause? Biological Theory, MIT Press.. Online dream interpretation group for therapists.. Battle of Birds - interpreted.. Fairy tales, feminine, online. RSS feed from facebook. Understanding Jung: basic. Theory . Classes given. Lectures described. Resumé. Student's evaluations. Publications. Copyright and fair use. Introduction to autism and narcissistic injury. The three gorillas . Autism and the image of the mother's eyes (2004) . Autism and early non-maternal child care. Rainfall is statistically linked to 40% increase in autism (2008). Signs of autism emerge between 6 and 12 months. Oxytocin promotes face-recognition in high functioning autism. Oxytocin stimulates brain centers for face-recognition which are depressed in autism . Eye-contact and complex dynamic systems: an hypothesis on autism's direct cause and a clinical study addressing prevention (2010) Cézanne, Hofmann, Winnicott and Jung . A close colleague whose work I recommend highly . Legends and fairytales: introduction . Maui cycle. Maui cycle (continued). Maui and Tuna; Maui and immortality. Tiki the first man; Easter island . Tahaki of the red skin . How Tahaki lost his red skin . Sahin. Pretty maid Ibronka . The battle of the birds . The little old woman .. . Nourie Hadig . The Stealing of Tuyarima Kuo. Tatterhood . The wild ducks . Narcissism in legends and fairy tales: introduction. Tale of Sahin. Pretty maid Ibronka. Marrying the Devil's daughter. A daughter weaves consciousness. Janet and Tam Lin. Lexicon Preface . Abaissement du niveau mental. Abreaction. Abstraction. Active imagination. Adaptation. Affect. Ambivalence. Amplification. Analysis, Jungian. Anima. Animus. Anthropos. Apotropaic. Apperception. Archaic. Archetype. Archetypal image. Assimilation. Association Attitude. . Autonomous. Auxiliary function. Axiom of Maria. Cathartic method. Causal. Child. Circumambulation. Collective. Collective unconscious. Compensation. Complex. Concretism. Conflict. Coniunctio. Consciousness. Constellate. Constructive. Countertransference. Crucifixion. Depotentiate. Depression. Differentiation . Dissociation. Dreams. Ego. Emotion. Empathy. Enantiodromia. Energic. Eros. Extraversion. Fantasy. Father complex. Feeling. Feminine. Final. Fourth function. Function. Hero. Homosexuality. Hostile brothers. Hysteria. Identification. Image, primordial. Imago. Incest. Individual. Individualism. Individuality. Individuation. Inferior function. Inflation. Instinct . Introjection. Introspection. Introversion. Intuition. Irrational. Kore. Libido. Logos. Loss of soul. Mana- personality. Mandala. Masculine. Mechanistic. Meditation Mother complex. Motif. Myth. Negative inflation. Neurosis. Night sea journey. Nigredo. Numinous. Objectivation. Objective level. Objective psyche. Opposites. Orientation. Parental complex. Participation mystique. Persona. Personal unconscious. Personality. Personification. Philosophers' stone. Possession. Power complex. Prima materia. Primary function. Primitive. Primordial image. Progression. Projection. Provisional life. Psyche. Psychic energy. Psychization. Psychogenic. Psychoid. Psychological types. Psychopomp. Psychosis. Puer aeternus. Quaternity. Rapport . Rational. Rebirth. Reductive. Reflection. Regression. Regressive restoration of the persona. Religious attitude. Repression. Sacred marriage. Sacrifice. Schizophrenia. Self. Self- regulation of the psyche. Sensation. Shadow. Soul. Soul-image. Spirit. Splitting. Subjective level. Subjective psyche. Subtle body. Superior function. Supraordinate personality. Symbiosis. Symbol. Synchronicity. Synthetic. Temenos . Tertium non datur. Thinking. Transcendent function. Transference. Transformation. Trauma. Treasure hard to attain. Trickster. Type. Typology. Unconscious. Unconsciousness. Union of opposites. Unus mundus. Wholeness. Will. Wise old man. Word association experiment. Wounded healer. Lexicon Bibliography.