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Traumatic Blows to the Self: The Ubiquity of Narcissistic Dynamics and Self-Worth Problems in the Aftermath of Re... (1)

Fri, 09 Aug

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Talking Cure

Narcissitic presentations of a disturbed self, are best understood as traumatic responses to relational hurt. Denial of the subjectivity and self-experience of the growing child/person, are blows to the self that reman present in vulnerable self-stats.

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Traumatic Blows to the Self: The Ubiquity of Narcissistic Dynamics and Self-Worth Problems in the Aftermath of Re... (1)
Traumatic Blows to the Self: The Ubiquity of Narcissistic Dynamics and Self-Worth Problems in the Aftermath of Re... (1)

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09 Aug 2024, 9:00 am – 10 Aug 2024, 4:00 pm

Talking Cure, 19 Marine Parade, Bluff Hill, Napier 4110, New Zealand

About the event

While Narcissistic Personality Disorder is seldom diagnosed in current practice, the ubiquity of these dynamics in many clients and their suffering is undeniable. Self-worth problems and regulation of a stable self-worth often are central struggles for many clients. Further are issues of finding healthy expressions of oneself, self-actualization and other forms a uninhibited enjoyment of self-expression are central endeavors of psychotherapeutic concern. Understanding these dynamics in light of relational and interpersonal injurie to the self creates often meaningful avenues for intervention and therapeutic healing.

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Overindulgence of the self - in grandiose and addictive responses -  as well as the inhibited and stinted self with hypervigilance to rejection and fear of self development often are central dynamics in traumatized clients, thus clinicians understanding of these themes as trauma response is vital to the successful therapeutic engagement.

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