What are the causes of narcissistic personality disorder?

What are the causes of narcissistic personality disorder?

Rhoda Hahn (Psychiatrist) gives expert video advice on: What are the signs of narcissistic personality disorder?; What are the causes of narcissistic personality disorder?; What are the treatments for narcissistic personality disorder? and more...

Like borderline personality disorder there has been a lot written about narcissisicm and the developementle deficiancies. In other words, parenting flaws are problems. Narcissiisicm is a normal part of child hood developement. So each one of us starts out with a healthy narcissisicm, that gradiosity that small children often have. One way of looking at it is almost as if you have this narcisisicm that is considered a normal developemental phase and over time as you get older, and the reality of the world sets in and you realize that you are not the most special person in the world and you can't leap tall buildings with a single bound or whatever. That narcessicicm gets chipped away, that grandiose arcaic narcessicimcn gets chipped away hopefully leaving a kernal of self esteem.