Indifferent and emotionally unresponsive parents can severely damage their young child's mental health. This can lead to a narcissistic personality disorder in adulthood. With the new approach of parts therapy, the author demonstrates how the narcissistic wound can be understood and therapeutically healed. Are we living in the age of narcissists? Arrogance coupled with the devaluation of others, a craving for admiration and validation of oneself, and a lack of empathy for the environment - everyone knows them, the often exceptionally successful individuals with oversized egos. In this book, Jochen Peichl pursues a new approach to better understand how narcissism develops, the various forms associated with the disorder, and what psychotherapeutic help can look like: from the perspective of hypno-analytical parts therapy, the dynamics of narcissistic personality development are examined.