Narcissists here really means people with narcissistic personality disorder. There are numerous personality disorders. Personality disorder is a kind of arres

Narcissists here really means people with narcissistic personality disorder. There are numerous personality disorders. Personality disorder is a kind of arrested development, a failure to grow up and develop a normal personality. Narcissism is one particular failure mode. Narcissists victimize and abuse people all the time and then impose on others the ego defense mechanisms that they employ internally to deflect information that would help them mature. I.e., they deny reality to themselves, and gaslight others.