Slings and Arrows: Narcissistic Injury and Its TreatmentLevin examines what therapists can do to help the victims of narcissistic wounds to integrate, mourn, and heal them. He shows the nature of the injuries to each party and considers ways to minimize them, since treatment itself can seem an injury to both patient and therapist. |
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Page 59
... patient's anxiety receded . However , things were not to remain so placid or positive . Dr. Smith had a secretary with whom the patient became involved . As he later found out , Margaret was not only Dr. Smith's secretary , she was his ...
... patient's anxiety receded . However , things were not to remain so placid or positive . Dr. Smith had a secretary with whom the patient became involved . As he later found out , Margaret was not only Dr. Smith's secretary , she was his ...
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... patient on the part of the therapist , and to missing aspects of character path- ology or lesser symptomatology that the patient needs analyzed . Further , such counteridealization constitutes a narcissistic injury , experienced not ...
... patient on the part of the therapist , and to missing aspects of character path- ology or lesser symptomatology that the patient needs analyzed . Further , such counteridealization constitutes a narcissistic injury , experienced not ...
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... patient is about to walk in front of a speeding truck , for the therapist not to shout " Stop ! " is to allow the patient to sustain a serious , even fatal , injury ; it is irresponsible . Of course the patient may not stop , and the ...
... patient is about to walk in front of a speeding truck , for the therapist not to shout " Stop ! " is to allow the patient to sustain a serious , even fatal , injury ; it is irresponsible . Of course the patient may not stop , and the ...
Contents
Preanalytic Theories of the Self | 10 |
Narcissism | 37 |
Injured by Life Injured by Therapy | 49 |
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ACOAS addiction aggression alcoholic amphetamine anxiety archaic became become behavior cathected cathexis child conscious countertransference dangerous death death instinct defense denial depression depressive position derepression developmental dynamic emotional empathy envy Erikson excommunication experience experienced fantasy father fear feel felt Freud grandiosity guilt hate hurt idealizing transference identity inflicted instincts integration internal interpretation Kohut less libidinal libido lived loss lost object Lou Andreas-Salomé Mary mirror mother mourning narcis narcissism narcissistic injury narcissistic personality disorders narcissistic rage narcissistic wound never notion object relational object representations pain parents pathological patient person pleasure possible primary narcissism projective identification psychoanalytic psychodynamic psychotic reality relationship Roberta Ruth Ann Sally Sally's self-esteem self-object self-representation sense sexual shame sort splitting stage Standard Edition Stone suicide superego supervisee talking theory therapeutic therapist therapy things thought tion told Tom Stone transferential traumatic treatment turned unconscious unrequited Winnicott