setting boundaries is a must but NO CONTACT is the ONLY thing that "helps"
Books about setting personal boundaries can be found at Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Powells, Amazon and Abe Books. Local libraries will help a variety of self help titles that can be checked out for a set period of time.
It is possible for a narcissistic father to try to exert control over his adult son, especially if the son has been conditioned to depend on him emotionally or financially. Setting clear boundaries and seeking support from a therapist or counselor can help the adult son assert his independence and establish a healthier relationship with his father.
The question is ... why bother trying? People are held responsible for their own actions and I wouldn't touch this one with a 10 foot pole. Don't bother trying because you won't get through to either of them. Sorry Marcy
Boundaries are guidelines that help define how we want to be treated by others, including what behavior is acceptable and unacceptable. They help us maintain a sense of self-respect and protect our emotional and physical well-being. Setting and enforcing healthy boundaries is an important part of establishing positive relationships and maintaining personal boundaries.
You can't. Part of being a narcissist means that they cannot possibly be wrong/disordered/need help.
Yes. So what? They need to be held accountable!
Setting boundaries ... It's pretty much like u have rules that u can't break, if u go out of the boundary then it's who Evers choice to punish or what not
Talk to someone that you trust about it and get help.
By setting boundaries, and keeping very little contact. Only use contact when regaurding the children. A narcissist will use your children as pawns to hurt you or to gain an advantage over you. You don't want to rock the boat in the slightest way for your childrens sake as well as your own.
The question is help them how? Refer them to counseling, but they don't want to be fixed, though you may want to fix them to be a 'normal' person so you can keep a relationship with them. If you are a lay person and in a relationship with a narcissist, you cannot help them. Just by the nature of your relationship and the pathology of a narcissist, things will get ugly, it will be at your expense and there will be no change in the narcissist. A good therapist will be the one to help a narcissist, but it takes a great deal of work on the part of the narcissist, a commitment to healing, only they don't see themselves as 'broken' or anything wrong with them, so an honest introspective communication with a therapist is rare. It's so hard to understand. Leaving them is best for you though and isn't that sad that that is also the way to help a narcissist, because they are sucking your goodness from you and using it to buoy themselves. So sad.
Best guess, it can. There is no other way for a true narcissist to be aware of issues within him or herself.
A narcissist would not want help because he or she would not think there was anything wrong. Therefore, you can't help a narcissist; even when a narcissist is court ordered into therapy, there is little a professional can do to help a person change this personality type.