Narcissist and the Cognitive Dissonance Theory: The Web of Eternal Entanglement (Transcend Mediocrity Book 87)

Many of my readers seek to continue learning about the narcissist and the tools that he uses in order to maintain his toxic relationships with those around him. We are baffled by his triangulation, lying, cheating, manipulation, and the trauma bond which he uses to keep his followers around. He elicits negative and abusive behavior, and he seemingly gets away with it.
What we haven’t discussed in a lot of depth is the theory of cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is the reason that many of those who worked with Hitler did not question the evil things that they were doing when they helped kill other human beings. It is the reason that friends, partners and family members continue to support and follow narcissists, despite their ill feelings to the contrary.
We think that adults should know the difference between right and wrong. We think that everyone who is being hurt or manipulated would stand up for themselves and choose to walk away if they were put in a situation that was harmful to them. We wonder why groups of people are prone to infanticide and genocide, hardly putting up any fight as they are led to their deaths. We would all like to think that we would be the ones to speak out and to fight for our right to live. But would we?
This ebook will seek to define cognitive dissonance as it relates to narcissists, toxic people, psychopaths and other mentally ill or personality-disordered individuals. It will also define the cognitive dissonance that causes victims to stay with their narcissistic spouse or partner. The purpose of toxic and narcissistic people is seemingly to harm and take advantage of others. We look at them as being the ‘evil’ side of humanity, but we often don’t realize why they chose the ‘dark’ side. This ebook seeks to shed light on the underlying reasons for this choice. It explains the underlying psyche and mind theories as they relate to how a narcissist is created, and why he seeks to torture those who are much weaker.
Cognitive dissonance is a term used to describe the anguish that makes us psychologically uncomfortable when we have conflicting feelings, thoughts, and opinions about something. Our brains dislike the feeling of being unbalanced. The optimal existence for a newborn baby is to have peace, hope for the future, and harmony.
Many situations can happen to cause cognitive dissonance in our psyche. Our outer world may be in conflict with our inner world. Our reality may be in conflict with our perception. The path that we are taking in our lives may be in conflict with the lifelong goals that we have set for ourselves.
The purpose of dissonance in the human psyche is to motivate one to either radically accept or radically change their path. Because there is often no real hope for the future in a relationship with a toxic or narcissistic person, the person starts to create hope in their mind. They may change their own thoughts, feelings, motives, and opinions to support new ones which encourage their survival. Some victims may even be at risk of death or serious injury if they do not resolve this dissonance in a way that is favorable to the narcissist.

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