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February 7, 2018

Narcissist Fight Club Rule #4: Facts Are Meaningless

If you’ve been in a relationship with a narcissist, borderline, psychopath or histrionic, you probably understand why these personalities are also referred to as high-conflict people. It’s because they chronically manufacture an overwhelming amount of conflict, chaos and drama. Just when you catch your breath, they’re back at it. Provoking, projecting, gaslighting, tantrum-ing, exaggerating, pouting, […]

Filed Under: Abuse, Abusive relationships, Accountability, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Domestic Violence, High-Conflict, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic abuse, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Personality Disorders, Professional Victims, Psychological Abuse, Relationship Advice, Relationships, Unhealthy Relationships Tagged With: abandonment, abuse, abusive wife, appeasement, blame shifting, borderline personality disorder, codependency, codependent, compulsive liars, crazy girlfriend, DARVO, duping delight, emotional reasoning, enable, enabling, false self, gaslighting, histrionic personality disorder, histrionics, idealization, JADE, love bombing, narcisisst, narcissism, narcissist club rules, narcissistic personality disorder, personality disorders, professional victim, projection, projective identification, psychopaths

June 24, 2015

What a Narcissist Really Means When She or He Wants to Stay Friends or Hoovers You After Breaking Up

This applies to male narcissists, too, as well as Borderlines, Histrionics and Sociopaths of both genders. This is undoubtedly no surprise to many of you reading this. I just didn’t want anyone to feel excluded. You know how touchy they get about these kinds of things. Oftentimes at the end of a relationship with this kind of […]

Filed Under: Abusive relationships, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Domestic Violence, Healthy Relationships, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic abuse, Narcissistic Personality Disorder Tagged With: duping delight, hoover, hoovering, manipulation, narcissistic abuse, narcissistic personality disorder

February 2, 2015

Going Mental: How Do You Know When a Sociopath, Narcissist or Borderline Is Lying?

Their lips are moving. The End. That’s a facile and clichéd answer, but, more often than not, an accurate one. Sociopaths, psychopaths, narcissists, borderlines and histrionics lie for many reasons. Self-preservation (e.g., to avoid jail or other unwanted natural consequences for their bad behavior), to manipulate or exploit others to get money, sympathy, power, attention, security, a relationship […]

Filed Under: Abuse, Abusive relationships, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Domestic Violence, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Personality Disorders, Physical Abuse, Psychological Abuse Tagged With: abuse, abusive relationships, borderlines, domestic violence, Dr Tara Palmatier, duping delight, gaslighting, histrionics, narcissists, pathological liar, Paul Elam, psychopaths, sociopaths

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