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Compassion for the Narcissistic Style

Compassion for the Narcissistic Style

Oct 12, 2025 by Dawn Drescher

The title Humanizing the Narcissistic Style is already taken (great book!), but that is exactly what I'm trying to do. I wish for a world where the narcissistic personality disorders and really all personality disorders are treated like a flu: Having an illness doesn't make someone a bad person; when someone is sick, they need support and compassion; going around and recklessly inflecting other people is not desirable; focusing on one’s recovery is.

  1. The Architecture of the Narcissistic False Self: The first article is a collection and explanation of factors that make a false self more or less robust.
  2. The Narcissistic Spectrum: The second article builds on top of that and describes a range from absent false self to highly stable false self using six tiers along that spectrum.
  3. Narcissism, Echoism, and Sovereignism: The third article introduces a new model for how to think about narcissism and echoism and also introduces the concept of sovereignism and situates it in the model.
4The Architecture of the Narcissistic False Self
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