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Can dysfunctional parents

Can growing up with and being abandonment by a parent i.e mother or father, even losing them via death affect a childs personality

can it cause narcissism
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TinyViolins · 31-35, M
Without a doubt. Attachment theory isn't a proven science, but there is ample data from clinical psychologists that the relationship we have with our caregivers and the traumas we inherit from them are foundational to the type of people we become later in life.

Our attitudes, our behaviors, our ideas and beliefs, and the values we place on relationships are rooted in the relationships modeled to us by our parents