The Main Reason for the Increase in the Number of Narcissistic People

Scholars such as Kohut, Kernberg, and Freud assumed that narcissism was related to childhood parental relationships. So at that time because the needs are either not met at all or are not met they thought that narcissism emerged as a personality disintegration. Although they thought about it at that time, we now know that there is no single factor that pushes individuals to be narcissistic as a result of various studies on the subject recently.

Some experts; when narcissism is saying that families raise self-confident children They think it’s because he praises children unnecessarily. Researchers working in the field of social media They see the reason for this situation as the fact that social media provides an environment in which the person can exhibit himself. However, in this article, rather than these reasons, we will focus on a reason that perhaps paves the way for all of them, which is the unhealthy individualization effort.

Our journey from social cultures to individual cultures where the individual is at the forefront…

According to researchers everything with the Industrial Revolution started. Machine power began to replace the manpower required for agriculture. Villagers who could not find a job in village life migrated to the cities and worked as factory workers. However, extended families lost their importance, individual came to the fore. This culture, in which the individual is at the center and the balance between the individual and society is not disturbed, has become the Western culture.

This individualization, which started in Europe, was reflected in America in the same way. When we look at how the culture of individuation reached us, experts mention that the disintegration of the USSR played a big role at this point. When the USSR collapsed and the Cold War ended Socialism suffered a worldwide defeat, however, Western civilization was legitimized and began to appear as the most ideal civilization to reach. With the contribution of the developments in science and technology, countries; they became increasingly close to each other economically, ecologically, politically and culturally. One of the countries that got its share of these was Turkey.

When we are not individuated in a healthy way, we are likely to become selfish and narcissistic.

So is individualization a bad thing? According to research, no, if it is healthy ways. In unhealthy ways it makes the individual selfish in pursuit of their freedom, narcissism, and upsets the balance in the relations of the individual and society.

When we look at how a healthy individualized individual becomes, we can see that this individual self-control mechanisms has developed. This individual strives for self-actualization; In this way, it struggles with internal and external social pressures and addictions that may damage its self-confidence. If the individual does not have self-control, self-consciousness and social consciousness, this will be unhealthy individuation and this person will harm himself and society with his unlimited freedom.

You are probably a narcissistic individual if you have these symptoms:

When we look at the symptoms of narcissism, narcissistic people delusions of grandeur we see that. In other words, they believe that they are special, they think that they are more beautiful and smarter than everyone else, and even according to them, they should be treated special for this reason. It happens that they use the people around them for their own benefit.

When someone prettier and smarter than them comes in. delusions of jealousy amount. In the same way, they think that they are envied by others. You can recognize them by their loud laughter to grab attention.

note: This article was written to increase the awareness of people about themselves and society. Only a mental health professional can diagnose someone with narcissistic personality disorder.