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Therapist reluctant to label and stigmatize. Narcissist rejects his diagnosis, though is self-aware.Pangs of conscience and soul-searching are not signs of mental health or of empathy. Neurotics have autoplastic defenses, for example. It is the bad object manifesting. Narcissists just resolve such agonizing processes differently: alloplastic defenses. Is something wrong with me: emphasis on self-efficacy, fear of just punishment or being caught red-handed, not empathy (oneself – not others).12 STEPS OF NARCISSISTS ANONYMOUS 1. I admit that I am powerless over narcissism — that my life had become unmanageable.2. I have come to believe that no power greater than myself could restore me to sanity owing to my grandiosity (False Self).3. I have made a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of my False Self (narcissism).4. I have made a searching and fearless moral inventory of myself.5. I admit to myself and to others the exact nature of my wrongs.6. I am entirely ready to overcome these defects of character and behaviors.7. I challenge our grandiosity to remove my shortcomings.8. I have made a list of all persons that I had harmed, and am willing to make amends to them all.9. I have made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.10. I continue to take personal inventory and when I am wrong promptly admit it to myself and then to others.11. I seek to improve my conscious contact with my narcissism (False Self), hoping only for knowledge of its will for me and the power to oppose it.12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, I will try to carry this message to other narcissists, and to practice these principles in all my affairs.Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/60F8EC8A-5812-4007-9F2C-DFA02EA713B3
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