Psychobabble

Psychobabble

Everyone's A Narcissist Now

...Except The Ones Who Are

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Hannah Spier, MD
Sep 03, 2025
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The great driver of family estrangement today is not abuse but diagnosis. Increasingly, parents are not argued with but labeled: “toxic,” or “narcissist.” Young adults no longer learn to work through differences out of obligation to family; they simply brand their parents disordered and go in search of a new “chosen family.” Therapists warn that psychia…

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