In connection with highly self-centered personalities, you often hear variations of the question, “Can he/she be helped?” “Can I be helped?” “Is it futile to imagine he/she can change?” Here’s the quick, …

Ever been in a situation where someone’s jerking you around baldly, brazenly, unconscionably? It’s called “gaslighting,” the process of someone’s messing with your perceptions and reality, but pretending, insisting they’re not. Most …

Let’s consider how to get a grip on our narcissism. When we cut to the chase, problematic narcissism very much boils down to patterns of chronically mismanaged disappointment. From this perspective, practice …