The psychotherapist Bärbel Wardetzki deals with the connection between eating disorders and female narcissism. She has just published another book. A conversation about self-doubt, grandiosity and studying psychology as an attempt at self-healing.
Bärbel Wardetzki’s life theme as a psychotherapist is narcissism. She was one of the first German scientists to study the connection between eating disorders and narcissism in women. After her studies, she worked in the psychosomatic clinic in Bad Grönenbach, and since 1992 she has had her own practice as a behavioral and gestalt therapist in Munich. The now 71-year-old says that through her therapeutic work she has understood a lot about herself, such as the impact of the early death of her twin sister. Wardetzki gives lectures, is a supervisor and has written bestselling books about relationship problems and female narcissism. Your new book (Kösel) also revolves around the topic. It is a summary of her experiences, she says at a meeting in her terraced house in the Neuhausen district of Munich. “For anyone interested in the question: Am I narcissistic?”