Article about how children get conditioned to tolerate an abusive parent

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I found this article at another site I belong to, for the adult children of

narcissistic pd parents.

Its a fascinating and rational example of how the non-pd but enabling spouse

unwittingly conditions the kids to believe that they deserve emotional abuse

and/or neglect. According to this writer, in a two-parent household its the

enabler who ends up doing the most damage!

This dynamic (control and punish the victim) is nearly a duplicate of what

happens when one parent is an alcoholic or drug-abuser, also.

Here's the link to the article:

http://narc-attack.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-children-of-narcissists-get.html

This author, Kathy Krajco, also makes a cogent argument that narcissists are

just sub-clinical psychopaths. I tend to lean toward this theory myself: that

all the Cluster B disorders are really on a spectrum of psychopathic pd.

-Annie