Narcissistic Behavior & Psychology: Certificate

Identify signs of narcissism in dating, including love bombing, self-centeredness, arrogance, victimhood, and control tactics like manipulation and gaslighting.

Histrionic personality disorder (HPD) belongs to cluster b and features unstable emotions, distorted self-image, and a strong need for attention, often via seductiveness, differing from narcissistic personality disorder.

Explore narcissism in parenting, including vicariously living through a child’s achievements, controlling decisions, and emotional manipulation such as guilt trips and emotional blackmail, shaping the child’s autonomy and self-worth.

Explore authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and uninvolved parenting styles and their impact on children's development and behavior. Learn how each style shapes self-esteem, compliance, and well-being.

Explore projection and insecurity in narcissistic dynamics. Learn how lack of praise, minimization, and bragging control children, creating cognitive dissonance and hindering authentic self-worth.

Explore Jungian shadow archetypes of the devouring mother and tyrannical father to understand how narcissistic parenting enmeshment, conditional affection, and fear of autonomy shape children's identities.

Explore narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), including grandiosity, lack of empathy, and a distorted self-image. Learn how diagnosis and treatment start with admitting the problem.

Explore the three risk factors for narcissistic personality disorder—environment, genetic predisposition, and neurobiology—and how lifestyle, brain structure like the left anterior insula, and parenting shape NPD risk.

Examine how culture shapes narcissism in the modern era, where social media fuels self-promotion. Analyze how fame, money, and status foster NPD traits and public shame in an individualistic society.

Explore DSM-5 criteria for narcissistic personality disorder, including grandiosity, fantasies of success, entitlement, and lack of empathy, and learn treatment options like transference-focused psychotherapy, mentalization-based therapy, and dialectical behavioral therapy.

Explore the two DSM-5–recognized narcissism types—overt and covert—and how each expresses grandiosity, entitlement, sensitivity to criticism, and defensive or empty apologies.

Explore how narcissism blends grandiose and vulnerable traits across four combinations—overt and covert, grandiosity and vulnerability—driven by internal narratives and social validation, like an iceberg.

explores narcissism in relationships by defining healthy relationship attributes, such as two-way communication, boundaries, listening, trust, negotiation, honesty, calmness, openness, teamwork, empathy, genuine love, and selflessness.

Explore how narcissism drives unhealthy relationships through grandiose self-importance, manipulation, boundary violations, and trust issues, with late-emerging red flags and the grandiose-omnipotent-devalue pattern.

Explore living with a narcissist, why people stay for financial stability, attachment, or religious reasons, identify emotional abuse and gaslighting, and learn to set boundaries with support.

Exit narcissistic relationships by recognizing red flags, leaving toxic abuse and manipulation, and safeguarding autonomy through seeking help and prioritizing mental and physical well-being.