“To know another person is to know what you can't control and that's the greatest fear that all of us have in our narcissistic side.”
What You’ll Learn
6 CORE THEMES
Healthy & Pathological Narcissism
Distinguishing healthy self-regard from the defensive structures of pathological narcissism.
Shame & False Self
Understanding the profound vulnerability that can lie beneath a presentation of perfection.
Object Relationships
How difficulty experiencing another person as separate and whole can affect intimacy.
Grandiosity & Emptiness
The recurring movement between grandiosity and a sense of inner deadness.
Therapeutic Action
Clinical approaches to working with the intense countertransference that narcissistic patients can evoke.
Rage & Withdrawal
The defensive use of anger and withdrawal when self-esteem feels threatened.
Sheldon Bach
"The fear is not of being alone, but of being dead while alive."
Focusing on the experience of deadness and the quest for vitality in the narcissistic struggle.
Nancy McWilliams
"Narcissism is fundamentally a disorder of self-esteem regulation."
Examining the structural organization of the personality and the role of pervasive shame.
Jay Greenberg
"Vulnerability is the price we pay for genuine connection."
Exploring the relational dynamics and the conflict between safety and attachment.
Preview Narcissism Trailer
Watch a brief preview of the conversations, insights,
and clinical perspectives explored throughout the Narcissism masterclass.
THE DEFENSIVE SYSTEM
How defensive organization protects a vulnerable and unstable sense of self.
MISTRUST SHAME DEPENDENCY
GRANDIOSITY EMPTINESS ISOLATION
ENVY
WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR
Psychotherapists
Deepen your clinical skills and work with the complex transference and countertransference dynamics that can arise in treating narcissistic patients.
Couple therapists
Understand how narcissistic dynamics shape intimacy, mutuality, and conflict between partners.
Graduate Students & Trainees
Gain frameworks for navigating therapeutic impasses and the technical challenges that can arise in work with narcissistic patients.
Psychoanalytic & Psychodynamic Therapists
Explore several psychoanalytic perspectives on narcissistic personality and treatment.
Study narcissism beyond the diagnostic label.
Join three influential psychoanalytic thinkers in a wide-ranging exploration of the narcissistic self.
