Tactics of a Narcissistic MotherThis insight into narcissistic personality disorder is offered from the perspective more than 40 years spent as the daughter of a narcissistic personality disordered mother, as well as years of recovery and raising awareness. Reading a list of diagnostic traits of narcissistic personality disorder may be a helpful guide, but this is how some of those traits played out in my personal experience in everyday life. NarcissismEleanor D. Payson, MSW Quote | Source In the words of Eleanor D. Payson, MSW and author of The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists, "The word narcissism in its most fundamental sense means a tendency to self-worship."However, narcissistic personality personality disorder is a serious condition that can be especially damaging to the children. It is not just a shallow or self-centered person, but a fixed personality disorder that does not change. It can take decades for the children of a narcissist…