This two-part lecture explores the challenges that children of a narcissistic parent face, particularly those with a narcissistic mother. How can women and men deal with and work through the challenges? And how does healing from a narcissistic parent occur? Jungian analyst Dariane Pictet will look at what it means to grow up with a narcissistic parent through the lens of Grimm’s fairytale Snow White.
How does a fairytale help understand narcissism? Fairytales carry wisdom that we can partake from. They describe unconscious psychic processes in the form of symbolic figures and bring to light how we can think and act differently and what we can do to ask the right questions.
In Healing from a Narcissistic Parent, you will learn from the classic fairytale Snow White the psychological development of a person raised by a narcissistic mother. What is a person up against if he/she wants to heal from this type of infliction? Dariane moves between the psychological and clinical aspects of the fairytale realm to the symbolic fairytale aspect throughout the lecture. She taps into the collective wisdom and shows what we can learn from the fairytale of Snow White in relation to narcissism. In the first part of the lecture, Dariane explores what shows up in the development of women that have grown up with a narcissistic mother. In the second part, she talks about the development of men that have been unmirrored by their mother. Dariane shows how the experience of a narcissistic parent impacts a person’s attachment style. And, concludes by discussing how healing from a narcissistic mother happens.