Fragile Selves

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Full Name

Email Address

Susanna Abse and Jenny Riddell

1.

According to Abse and Riddell, couples who come to therapy are usually trapped in which one of the following:

Select one correct answer

Projective identification

Mutual contempt

2.

Treating the narcissistic problem as something which both partners have allows the therapy to focus on which of these?

Select one correct answer

The unacknowledged differences between the two

The shared problems

Dr Anne Alvarez and Marcus West

3.

According to Dr Alvarez, most UK therapists do not think:

Select one correct answer

Developmentally

Neuro-scientifically

Psychoanalytically

4.

Marcus West thinks the real shift with these patients comes when they have:

Select one correct answer

Self-control

Self-acceptance

Self-knowledge

Dr David Celani

5.

According to Fairbairn If the child is loved by the parents and they accept his love in return, he is able to give up which one of the following:

Select one correct answer

Infantile dependence

Primary narcissism

Oedipal fantasies

6.

According to Dr David Celani, which ego part in Fairbairn’s model needs to enlarge if the abused and neglected child is to survive?

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The central ego

The anti-libidinal ego

The libidinal ego

7.

Which of Dr Celani’s patients destroyed their father’s boat?

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The obsessional patient

The hysteric patient

Clumsy Guy

Dr Diana Diamond

8.

Dr Diana Diamond says that, as infants, narcissistic patients mainly experienced:

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Emotional abuse and neglect

Physical or sexual abuse

9.

Diamond references research that shows the drop-out rate for narcissistic patients is:

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Over 64%

Over 74%

Dr Jay Greenberg

10.

Dr Greenberg references ‘On Narcissism’ by Sigmund Freud. Which one of these, according to Greenberg is not one of Freud’s five definitions of narcissism?

Select one correct answer

Treating one's own body as a sexual object

A self-directed allocation of the libido

A defence against the terror of death

A normal stage of human development

An interpersonal stance of being insusceptible to influence

A sexual perversion

Jason Hepple

11.

Cognitive Analytical Therapists present the client’s history back to them in a:

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Reformulation letter

Reinterpretation letter

Reintegration letter

Professor Jeremy Holmes

12.

According to Professor Holmes, which of the following feelings should have been called the ‘narcissistic affect’?

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Pride

Anger

Shame

13.

What does Professor Holmes say the narcissist is always wanting?

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To dominate the object

To be thought special by the object

An idealised parental imago

Frank Lachmann

14.

According to Lachmann empathic understanding involves which of the following?:

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Feeling

Cognition

Relatedness

15.

Lachmann asserts that infant research dovetails with which figure’s theories?

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Anna Freud

Timothy Leary

Heinz Kohut

Liz McCormick

16.

Choose one from the following answers. McCormick says that self-regultion is important for:

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Patient

Therapist

Therapist and Patient

Dr Susan Mizen

17.

Which part of the brain is essential for symbolization according to Dr Mizen’s research?

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Amygdala

Hypothalamus

Angular Gyrus

18.

From which side of the body does Dr Mizen say most amputee seekers want a limb removed?

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Left

Right

Dr Phil Mollon

19.

According to Dr Mollon which of these psychoanalytic thinkers argued human beings have no core identity?

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Donald Winnicott

Jacques Lacan

Sigmund Freud

20.

Who does Dr Mollon say described disintegration as ‘the deepest anxiety man can experience’?

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Erich Fromm

Jacques Lacan

Victor Frankl

Heinz Kohut

21.

According to Dr Mollon, children born with which one of the following have more difficulty relinquishing innate narcissism?

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Dyslexia

Dyspraxia

ADHD

Dr Clara Mucci

22.

Dr Clara Mucci’s talk explores the influence of attachment on personality pathology in infants. At what age does she suggest borderline psychic structure may develop?

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0-4 months

4-9 months

9-18 months

Jack Nathan

23.

Jack Nathan refers to the work of Michael Feldman who says that when treating borderline patients a clinician must maintain

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contact with his own super-ego

contact with his own internal object

contact with his own internal experience

Dr Allan Schore

24.

Dr Schore says there are benefits to viewing BPD from a relational approach as opposed to an insight approach.

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True

False

25.

BPD patients show striking deficits in which two of the following areas?

Select any that apply

Non-verbal executive function

Non-verbal memory

Working memory

Verbal fluency

26.

Dr Schore says that, in infants, trauma induces hyper-arousal followed by which one of the following:

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Repression

Projection

Dissociation

Ruthie Smith

27.

According to Smith, which one of the following terms do the NHS now use when referring to patients with BPD classification?

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Insecure attachment not otherwise classified

Complex emotional dysregulation

28.

Which one of the following does Smith say produces shame in patients?

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Unmet needs

Excessive needs

Neville Symington

29.

In his talk, Neville Symington refers to the concept of the ‘love object’ as:

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The life object

The love giver

The life giver

30.

Symmington says that narcissists lack an internal:

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Conscience

Principle

Ego

Study Guide 1. HISTORY

31.

What percentage of psychiatric patients are thought to have a personality disorder?

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20-30%

40-60%

70-80%

32.

Kohut’s theory of ‘Self-Psychology' proposes that:

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Narcissism might be an essential aspect of normal development

Narcissism is something that parents need to teach children

Problematic narcissism arises from infants receiving too much attunement from caregivers

Study Guide 2. SYMPTOMS

33.

Narcissists lack:

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Ambition

Empathy

Charisma

34.

Which one of the following terms are not equivalent with ‘thin-skinned’ narcissist?

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Sensitive

Soft-skinned

Hyper-vigilant

Study Guide 3. AETIOLOGY

35.

Bessel Van de Kolk said of trauma:

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Trauma is, by definition, an experience which the individual psyche cannot bear, or integrate at that time.

Trauma is, by definition, an experience which the individual psyche cannot bear, or integrate at any time.

36.

According to Kernberg, which one of the following is not fused to create the ‘grandiose self':

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Real self

Idealised self

Real other

Idealised other

Study Guide 4. TREATMENTS

37.

In psychological circles DBT stands for:

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Deprogramming Behaviour Therapy

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy

Desensitization Behaviour Therapy

Study Guide 5. CONTROVERSIES

38.

Adolf Stern’s used the term ‘borderline’ to describe individuals who seemed to be on the ‘border’ between:

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Neurosis and psychosis

Neurosis and depression

Depression and mania

Susanna Abse and Jenny Riddell
1. According to Abse and Riddell, couples who come to therapy are usually trapped in which one of the following:	Select 1 correct answer
a. Projective identification
b. Mutual contempt

2. Treating the narcissistic problem as something which both partners have allows the therapy to focus on which of these?	Select 1 correct answer
a. The unacknowledged differences between the two
b. The shared problems

Dr Anne Alvarez and Marcus West
3. According to Dr Alvarez, most UK therapists do not think:	Select 1 correct answer
a. Developmentally
b. Neuro-scientifically
c. Psychoanalytically

4. Marcus West thinks the real shift with these patients comes when they have:	Select 1 correct answer
a. Self-control
b. Self-acceptance
c. Self-knowledge

Dr David Celani
5. According to Fairbairn If the child is loved by the parents and they accept his love in return, he is able to give up which one of the following:	Select 1 correct answer
a. Infantile dependence
b. Primary narcissism
c. Oedipal fantasies

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Susanna Abse and Jenny Riddell

Dr Anne Alvarez and Marcus West

Dr David Celani

Dr Diana Diamond

Dr Jay Greenberg

Jason Hepple

Professor Jeremy Holmes

Frank Lachmann

Liz McCormick

Dr Susan Mizen

Dr Phil Mollon

Dr Clara Mucci

Jack Nathan

Dr Allan Schore

Ruthie Smith

Neville Symington

Study Guide 1. HISTORY

Study Guide 2. SYMPTOMS

Study Guide 3. AETIOLOGY

Study Guide 4. TREATMENTS

Study Guide 5. CONTROVERSIES

Susanna Abse and Jenny Riddell

Dr Anne Alvarez and Marcus West

Dr David Celani

Dr Diana Diamond

Dr Jay Greenberg

Jason Hepple

Professor Jeremy Holmes

Frank Lachmann

Liz McCormick

Dr Susan Mizen

Dr Phil Mollon

Dr Clara Mucci

Jack Nathan

Dr Allan Schore

Ruthie Smith

Neville Symington

Study Guide 1. HISTORY

Study Guide 2. SYMPTOMS

Study Guide 3. AETIOLOGY

Study Guide 4. TREATMENTS

Study Guide 5. CONTROVERSIES