Blog: http://psychreviews.org/treatment-of-narcissistic-personality-disorder/ Welcome to the last episode of this narcissistic personality disorder series. In the beginning we looked at Freud’s contributions from On Narcissism, where we see a self-love aimed at an ego-ideal which makes all important people in the narcissist’s life a means to an end. Achieving the ego ideal. As the child grows up the true self is never developed and a mask used for the public is identified with, which is the False Self. As the False self is challenged in a competitive ruthless environment, the narcissist learns from trial and error how to use politics and leverage to get his or her way. So far we have looked at how inhuman the narcissist is. The robotic quality and lack of empathy, but the narcissist is a person. When someone is far away from the narcissist they can feel sorry for their bad childhood, but when you are a victim it is impossible. Intro: 0:00 Summary 3:10 Stress 4:00 Where is the self? 4:37 Nothing is good enough - "Let's get ready to rumble!!!" 5:02 Transference and Counter-transference 5:33 Childhood defenses 6:29 The floodgates open 7:03 Reconstructing the self 7:42 Lack of mirroring 8:09 Projection 8:50 The therapist experience 9:31 Reaction formation 10:21 Understanding the source of the devaluation 11:22 Basking in the glow 12:15 Imprisoned between idealization and devaluation - carrots and sticks 13:05 Boundaries 13:42 Healing 14:45 Who benefits from therapy? 15:22 Realistic outcomes - Relapse 16:30 Outro 17:26 Part 1: On Narcissism https://youtu.be/p5bkxLpQ0Qo Part 2: The False Self https://youtu.be/jhMNMSP_99Q Part 3: Narcissistic Control https://youtu.be/FU2QdxwVCuQ Understanding and Treating Pathological Narcissism by John S. Ogrodniczuk: Hardcover: https://amzn.to/3lk8uzw Narcissism at Work: Personality Disorders of Corporate Leaders by Marie-Line Germain: Paperback: https://amzn.to/2HMyAxw Credits: Stock photos and footage from www.storyblocks.com Painting: Edvard Munch – Jealousy Music: musopen.org Ludwig Van Beethoven, Violin Sonata no. 9 'Kreutzer', Op. 47, Edward Auer Niccolò Paganini, 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1 - XX. Caprice in D Major. Allegretto, Jonathan Vered ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5rk8PrA1sY

Blog: http://psychreviews.org/sexuality-aberrations-sigmund-freud/ In Freud's time sexuality was believed to have started only in puberty. As Freud debated this argument he created new theories on perversion, sexual phases of development, and the cause of neurosis. Next up on Psych Reviews we will start this two part series with Freud's Aberrations. Intro: 0:00 The Aberrations: 1:39 Inversion (Homosexuality): 2:43 Degeneracy: 4:13 What is inverted?: 5:29 Homosexual development: 7:18 Disclaimer: 10:16 Freud's theories: 11:49 Narcissism: 12:25 Trading of skills: 15:16 Envy and rivalry: 16:18 Fear and disgust: 19:11 Absence of same-sex parent: 22:56 Reverse Oedipus Complex: 24:36 Summary of homosexual development: 25:27 Children and Animals: 32:10 Extensions: 34:11 Sadism and Masochism: 35:45 Repression and neurosis: 36:49 Intro to Part 2: 39:29 Outro: 39:35 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality: The 1905 Edition - Sigmund Freud: Kindle: https://amzn.to/3q7i78u Paperback: https://amzn.to/2JgjC3u Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Regular edition) - Sigmund Freud: Paperback: https://amzn.to/2VbCvXF Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood (Strachey Translation) - Sigmund Freud: Hardcover: https://amzn.to/39o8rQZ On The Sexual Theories Of Children - Sigmund Freud: https://amzn.to/2BTReRb Some Neurotic Mechanisms In Jealousy, Paranoia And Homosexuality - Sigmund Freud: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780099426738/ On the Dynamics of Transference - Freud: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780141182421/ Things hidden since the foundation of the world - René Girard: https://amzn.to/3lkwbYF Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis - Tim Dean and Christopher Lane Male Homosexuality: A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspective (Updated Edition) - Richard C. Friedman: Paperback: Paperback: https://amzn.to/36h4lYS Psychoanalysis and Male Homosexuality: Twentieth-Anniversary Edition, by Kenneth Lewes: Paperback: https://amzn.to/2CkzzSu Rereading narcissism: Freud’s theory of male homosexuality and Hawthorne’s “Gentle Boy” - David Greven Lewes, K. (1988). The psychoanalytic theory of male homosexuality. New York, NY, US: Simon & Schuster. Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis - Salman Akhtar: Kindle: https://amzn.to/36hNrtq Paperback: https://amzn.to/36fosqq Photos, videos, sound by Storyblocks, Pixabay, Pixnio, Getty Images, Wikipedia. No Escape By Judithcarlin - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48603513 The height from which water rises above its level is bound by Bernoulli's law at its speed. By Bernard de Go Mars - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72794568 Music: Beethoven - Violin Sonata no. 9 'Kreutzer', Op. 47 performed by Edward Auer ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYI5Fty3Txg

Blog: http://psychreviews.org/the-pleasure-principle-sigmund-freud/ Freud's pillar's of Psychoanalysis, the Pleasure Principle, and the Reality Principle were a practical test to assess a patient's grip on reality. Between scales of neurosis or psychosis, people could avoid reality at differing levels of disassociation, which was a depressing realization for the one caught in the trap. Yet there was hope precisely because the same principles could be used as a standard of psychological health, and become a goal for researchers and therapists to help patients achieve it. Intro: 0:00 Heuristics: 1:03 The Pleasure Principle: 2:30 The Reality Principle: 4:37 Consciousness, Attention, Memory, and Action: 5:46 Fantasy: 8:41 The principles in childhood sexual development: 10:15 A weak spot found: 11:48 Delay of gratification: 13:02 The principles in our institutions: 14:16 Art: 15:48 Psychosis and Paranoia: 16:15 Future influences: 18:13 Outro: 19:17 Resources: Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning - Sigmund Freud: Kindle: https://amzn.to/2JoZ8Fw Paperback: https://amzn.to/37lJzH5 The Unconscious - Sigmund Freud: Kindle: https://amzn.to/3ljk0vc Paperback: https://amzn.to/36fokat The Art of Seeing: An Interpretation of the Aesthetic Encounter ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Rick E. Robinson: Paperback: https://amzn.to/2Jbn8fM Rhetoric – Aristotle – Book I, Chapter 11. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0060%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D11 Harold P. Blum (2004) Beneath and Beyond the “Formulations on the Two Principles of Mental Functioning”, The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 59:1, 240-257, DOI: 10.1080/00797308.2004.11800740 Photos by Storyblocks, Pexels, and Wikipedia: A woman diagnosed as suffering from melancholia. Colour lithograph, 1892 By https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/e4/7b/13622efb4fa8a60a617248709dae.jpgGallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/L0026686.htmlWellcome Collection gallery (2018-03-23): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/q4rkrmhu CC-BY-4.0, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36013054 Patient suffering from war-neuroses. shell shock General Collections Keywords: Psychiatry; World War I By https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/obf_images/31/88/2490c59c861124c615ce8973fd95.jpgGallery: https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/L0023554.htmlWellcome Collection gallery (2018-04-06): https://wellcomecollection.org/works/v75rnrja CC-BY-4.0, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35999548 Music from musopen.org: Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition - Chiara Bertoglio Beethoven - Violin Sonata no. 9 'Kreutzer', Op. 47 performed by Edward Auer Chopin - Waltz in A minor, B. 150 - Aya Higuchi Mahler - Sy ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UR4hkbKsJ0

Blog: http://psychreviews.org/world-narcissistic-abuse-awareness-day-june-1st/ World Narcissistic Abuse Awareness day is June 1st , and I would like to do a small review on some of the precursors to Narcissistic Personality Disorder. As much as we hate the damage caused by these abusers, narcissists are still people and they came from families that weren’t dissimilar to ours. Some of the causes are related to inheritance but there are many other early family experiences that contribute to this disorder. Intro: 0:00 Emotional Control and Self-Esteem: 1:31 The comparison problem 2:28 Mentalizing 3:28 Impaired empathy 4:06 Fear 5:17 Inheritance 6:20 Temperament 6:47 Psychological Trauma 7:22 Age inappropriate roles 9:00 Limited individuation and no support for separation 10:02 Splitting 12:13 Controlling siblings 13:11 Controlling school 13:47 Controlling the world 14:34 Duping delight 16:39 Gaslighting 17:36 Other risks 18:28 Outro 20:29 Music and stock photos by Storyblocks World Narcissistic Abuse Awareness Day Summit, June 1st http://www.wnaad.com/survivor-empowerment-telesummit-2018/ Disorders of Narcissism edited by Elsa Ronningstam (excerpts and paraphrases from Paulina F. Kernberg): Hardcover: https://amzn.to/36hK31x Paperback: https://amzn.to/3o3gqak Psychopathy and the Law by Helinä Häkkänen-Nyholm, and Jan-Olof Nyholm: Kindle: https://amzn.to/3o9SmlZ Paperback: https://amzn.to/2KHwKiw Robert I. Simon (2009) Distinguishing Trauma-Associated Narcissistic Symptoms from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Diagnostic Challenge, Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 10:1, 28-36, DOI: 10.1080/10673220216206 Ronningstam, Elsa. (2017) Intersect between self-esteem and emotion regulation in narcissistic personality disorder – implications for alliance building and treatment Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 2017, Volume 4. Ronningstam, Elsa. (2016). Pathological Narcissism and Narcissistic Personality Disorder: Recent Research and Clinical Implications. Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports. 3. 10.1007/s40473-016-0060-y. Svenn Torgersen, John Myers, Ted Reichborn-Kjennerud, Espen Røysamb, Thomas S. Kubarych, and Kenneth S. Kendler (2012). The Heritability of Cluster B Personality Disorders Assessed Both by Personal Interview and Questionnaire. Journal of Personality Disorders: Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 848-866. https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi.2012.26.6.848 Tritt, Shona M. et al., Pathological narcissism and the depressive temperament. Journal of Affective Disorders, Volume 122, Issue 3, 280 – 284 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_C-P28w058