
Explore how four parenting styles—authoritarian, authoritative, permissive, and uninvolved—shape child self-esteem and potential links to narcissism, with emphasis on warmth, control, and emotional support.
Explore how modern culture and social media fuel narcissism, from celebrity worship and the pursuit of likes to career-driven narcissistic traits, and distinguish casual traits from narcissistic personality disorder.
Explore the two main narcissism types: overt (grandiose) and covert (vulnerable), and how their traits and behaviors influence relationships and understanding of narcissistic personality disorder.
Identify signs that you need to leave a narcissistic relationship, including emotional harm, lack of support, fear, and escalating abuse. Explore no-contact approaches and paths to healing.
Explore how unmet needs fuel dissatisfaction in relationships with narcissists, identify emotional, social, spiritual, and basic needs, and learn communication and negotiation strategies to fulfill them.
Remember the reasons for leaving a narcissistic relationship by writing diary entries that clarify what went wrong and reinforce your boundaries to protect your mental health.
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Welcome to the course on ‘Narcissistic Behaviour & Relationships: Psychology’.
If you are interested in learning about relationships and psychology, then you are in the right place. Or perhaps you are a therapist, a coach, or a person engaged in self-development and growth, who wants to learn about narcissism and NPD? Perhaps you would like to understand your own experience of being in a toxic relationship or, maybe you work with the clients that have been through toxic relationships (or still in them!) and who want to improve their life for the better?
In any case, welcome to my class! My name is Elmira Strange and I’m a professional researcher, instructor and motivational coach with MPhil in Counselling and Psychology. After completing this course you will have a good and clear understanding of the relationships where narcissism plays a vital role. You will understand the nature of toxic relationships, how to prevent them by spotting the ‘Red Flags’ during dating, and how to set up healthy boundaries in any relationship.
You will also learn about various forms of abuse, and you will understand how ‘gaslighting’, manipulation and control happen within a toxic relationship.
Additionally, in this course you will learn about:
the nature of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD),
the symptoms of healthy Vs toxic relationships,
the ‘signs’ of a narcissistic behaviour ('Red Flags') during dating
how to decide 'should you stay or should you go'
how to improve the relationship (if you decide to stay)
how to separate and 'heal' after traumatic relationship (if you decide to leave)
If you (or your client) ask yourself ‘should you continue with the existing relationship or should you leave for good’, then you will get some answers in this course too.
Finally, if you (or your client) remains in the relationship that is turning toxic, you will understand what is possible to do in order to resolve some issues by setting up ‘healthy’ boundaries.
However, if you (or your client) decide to leave the relationship, in the last section of this course you will learn how to separate from a narcissist effectively and how to heal from the experience afterwards.
If you feel that this course can provide you with some important answers, then don’t wait any longer. Enrol now and I’ll see you in my class!