therapy and narratives

And the need of the victim to maintain their own cognitive links in relation to their experiences in the past is the biggest battle that has to be waged against a narcissist and narcissistic types. This is why I found therapy so inimical and devastating, because the therapist who does not see life as a narrative, but rather as a series of emotional states, is breaking down the structure of resistance to the narcissist just as surely as if the narcissist were doing it himself. Life is only meaningful if it is in the form of a narrative. By contrast, there is no meaning in breaking down somebody's narrative. That is to wage war against them and enforce an absence of meaning and destruction of defensive shell.