A Case Analysis Rivka A Edery * Private Practce in Psychotherapy and Counseling, USA * Corresponding author: Rivka A Edery, MSW, LCSW, Private Practce in Psychotherapy and Counseling, USA, Tel: (361) 704-4051; E-mail: rebecca.edery@gmail.com Received date: 01 January 2019; Accepted date: 10 January 2019; Published date: 17 January 2019 Copyright: © 2019 Edery RA. This is an open-access artcle distributed under the terms of the creatve commons atributon license, which permits unrestricted use, distributon and reproducton in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citaton: Edery RA (2019) The Traumatc Efects of Narcissistc Parentng on a Sensitve Child: Abstract The discipline of psychology and its sub-disciplines of social, cognitve, and industrial psychology undertake to identfy taxonomies that help to identfy, understand, and explain human behavior. In consideraton of the traumatc efects of narcissistc parentng, this paper will discuss a single case analysis of patent A. In light of this patent’s upbringing, I will discuss two main personality theorists, Freud and Jung, to describe patent A’s self-reported personal identty, as he understands himself. I will describe the milestones that helped to formulate his beliefs, values and behaviors, familial and interpersonal relatonships. The goal I will accomplish is to formulate a developmental assessment to support my theoretcal perspectves of patent A. Keywords: Psychology; Self-assessment in psychotherapy; Narcissistc parentng; Personality development; Childhood trauma Introducton Over the past one hundred years or so, the subfelds of psychology; social, cognitve, and industrial psychology, have made great strides in helping us understand that notwithstanding our similarites, each person is unique. This uniqueness is not just a fatery or cliche, but based on personality development, heredity, milestones, family, culture and society in which people are raised and infuenced by. Seeking to understand Patent A and the scope on his personality (his unique psychological forces) including his historical paterns of interpersonal interactons, is best understood in a social context. The frst, primitve social context is childhood, specifcally the frst fve years of development. Patent A described himself as being a friendly, agreeable, playful and conscientous child. He also stated that because of the intense cold and fearful childhood environment, he defended himself by being overly responsive, tolerant of abusive language and behavior, accommodatng and highly fearful [1-3]. From speech, percepton, and interpersonal interactons with his primary caregivers, he had to protect himself and cope with early childhood trauma. Given the narcissistc and personality disorders of his primary caregivers, his main objectve was to survive being a used child. Instead of having his basic needs met, his parents used him to satsfy their needs and every whim. Ofen met with frightening, intense, sudden rage, overt sexual, physical, emotonal and mental abuse, he developed a coping orientaton, to include cognitve processes, both conscious and non-conscious. Sigmund Freud Freud is heralded as the most infuental personality theorist. He envisioned and devised an intriguing model of developmental stages, drives and psychic structures. As a highly gifed observer of human behavior, the unconscious aspect of his complicated explanatons of personality have helped many people understand human behavior. According to Freud, the child develops a superego around the age of fve years old. This superego is responsible for providing the person with an understanding of what is acceptable in society and urges the person to value moral and ethical decisions. The ego mediates between the id and the superego and indeed protects the conscious mind from 'baser' sexual and aggressive urges through defense mechanisms and repression. Thus, a healthy ego enables a person to be ratonal and logical as well as establish boundaries for the id and superego. In his introducing the unconscious, a hidden, buried, mysterious underground, where everything seems to take place, Freud made the study of human beings and personality, truly fascinatng. His work helps the clinician to see how some trauma experiences and memories become repressed and buried, as part of the whole system of defenses, as a survivor’s toolbox. Specifcally, and because of the terrible physical, emotonal abuse and neglect, Patent A became very well- defended, resistant and fearful in order to protect himself. He was faced with limitatons due to the ongoing trauma. Utlizing Case Analysis iMedPub Journals www.imedpub.com DOI: 10.21767/1791-809X.1000626 Health Science Journal ISSN 1791-809X Vol.13 No.1:626 2019 © Copyright iMedPub | This article is available from: www.hsj.gr 1 The Traumatc Efects of Narcissistc Parentng on a Sensitve Child: A Case Analysis. Health Sci J Vol.13.No.1:626.