Pathological Narcissism: The Pendulum Swing between Echoism and Sovereignism (opens in new tab)

Chapter 4: Most of my friends with pathological narcissism have more echoist and more sovereign sides. What determines which one takes the stage?IntroductionIn my article “,” I describe narcissism, echoism, and sovereignism in terms of values that the person tries to perfect like their life depends on it, because that’s what it actually feels like. (The fourth dimension is the severity of the personality pathology based on Kernberg’s levels of personality organization.)Echoism:General values:...