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Bringing Narcissists into Relationship

Session #: 710-428
Presenter(s): Wendy Behary
Session Length: 2 hr. 00 min.
Event: 2010 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium
Date: March 25-28, 2010

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Narcissists--notoriously arrogant, condescending, lacking empathy, emotionally detached--often seem incapable of genuine relationship with anyone, therapists included. So how can we summon compassion for narcissists and engage them in treatment when they're more likely to attack than cooperate with us? In this workshop, we'll explore a method of empathic confrontation to gain and keep leverage in therapy, tolerate our own fear in the face of our client's intimidation, avoid power struggles, maintain compassion through curiosity, and help the client begin to understand and change his or her own emotional and behavioral patterns. This integrated approach incorporates cognitive restructuring, attachment and reparenting work, behavioral-skills training, and experiential techniques.

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