Narcissistic Abuse is an Abusive Phrase...for Us All.
Enough of "[stigmatized disorder] Abuse" tropes.
“Every time my Husband has one of his migraines, I never got to stop hearing about it. His migraine abuse has to stop. He turns off the lights. He demands all of the loud sound stops. He is a controlling nightmare, and I am done with his migraine abuse.”
—My Wife, Never.
It’s not often I get to lean into my “published academic on the treatment of narcissistic personality disorder” credentials, but today, I am…
I am both the absurdist journalist-doctor who writes a newsletter about health things and a frequent Neuromodulation research co-author. Still, Owen Muir, M.D. also happens to be an Anna Freud Centre Official Supervisor in Mentalization Based Treatment for Personality Disorders. I have a few “first author” papers to my name, but an academic work on how therapists think about working with NPD patients is one such work. Without further ado, here is an opi…