Q&A
What is narcissism?
Narcissism is generally classified as a sense of self love. It comes from Ovid’s Metamorpheses, the Greek myth of Narcissus, which first identified a person being incapable of experiencing love external to themselves because there is such a great degree of self love. It entered the field of psychiatry and psychotherapy as a personality disorder, providing difficulties in functionality across several areas of life. It’s generally thought to first manifest in adolescence, but continues through the person’s life.