Treating Pathological Narcissism with TFP

Description

General Outline
Pathological narcissism
Narcissistic personality disorder
Malignant narcissism syndrome
Antisocial personality
The “Failure to Launch” Syndrome (young adult unable to start an independent life)

and a special topic:
“Trauma and Dissociation”

Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a chronic, intricate, and multifaceted condition that significantly affects an individual’s self-perception, perception of the world, and relationships with others. It results in an array of clinical manifestations and practical difficulties.

The workshop will cover all the key aspects of NPD. The description below does not do justice to the depth and innovation of our approach, so please consider it a partial outline:

• Overt and covert manifestations of narcissism. How to recognize behaviors, thoughts, and emotions associated with NPO
• The borderline personality organization as the basis for narcissistic pathology. Protection against identity diffusion, splitting, and other unacceptable aspects of one’s own personality.
• Specific features of the internal constellation of object relations in narcissism. Normal and pathological narcissism. Self-esteem. Ego-ideal. Aggression. Envy.
• Aggression. Studying the role of aggression in the formation of narcissistic traits and the Super-Ego. Deficits in the value system.
• Ways of developing the self and object relations. Theories of narcissism (Kernberg and Kohut)
• Types of pathological narcissism
• The fundamental features of NPD that determine the internal dynamics that turn into defenses and are reflected at the level of phenomenological description
• Severity levels of narcissistic pathology
• Diagnosis and dynamics of HPD. Highlighting the subtleties of recognizing narcissistic dynamics, phenomena and traits and their impact on personality, worldview, symptoms and behavior
• More about malignant narcissism syndrome
• The relationship between borderline, narcissistic and antisocial disorder
• Pathological grandiose self as the basis of NPD
• Pathological narcissism: structural features
• Pathological narcissism: psychodynamic features
• Pathological narcissism: clinical syndromes
• Significant types of narcissism
• Negative prognostic factors
• Psychodynamic treatment: therapist’s tasks and treatment difficulties
• Clinical work with HPD: accurate diagnosis, examination for comorbidities
• Therapy: the main difficulties for therapists
• Transference and countertransference processes. Study of the interaction between therapist and patient, peculiarities of transference and countertransference in the context of NPD. Specific transference and countertransference in narcissism (an extremely important topic).
• Difficulties in the therapy of NPD, expectations of special treatment, resentment of reality, exploitative position, alienation, “lack of relationships in therapy,” Long-term dominance of the pathological grandiose ” self.
• Adaptation of the therapeutic contract for NPD.
• Techniques for treatment of narcissistic patients
• Working with the pathological grandiose self and typical transference
• Negative therapeutic reactions

…. is only part of the program of this seminar dedicated to narcissism.

Additionally, a unique subject will be covered:

“Trauma and Dissociation” – a psychodynamic model

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Workshop design:

• Lectures
• Discussions of lectures
• Watching pieces of videos of sessions with patients and clinical discussions thereof
• Clinical supervision / with viewing fragments of patient sessions/
• Clinical supervision reviews and discussion
• Q&A sessions

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Modalities

Daily schedule:
New York time 7:00 a.m. – 1:30 pm
London time 12:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Kyiv time: 14:00 – 20:30

There will be two 15-minute breaks and one 30-minute break

TUITION
Tuition is 620.00 USD

Faculty

Frank Yeomans, M.D., Ph.D.

Contact

If you have any questions contact Oleksii Lemeshchuk – [email protected] or +38067480903 (WhatsApp)

Registration

Follow the registration link and fill the registration form

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