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Fragile Selves: Working with Narcissistic and Borderline States of Mind

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With Module Speaker:
Susanna Abse,  Dr Anne Alvarez,  Dr David Celani,  Dr Diana Diamond,  Dr Jay Greenberg,  Jason Hepple,  Professor Jeremy Holmes,  Frank Lachmann,  Elizabeth Wilde McCormick,  Dr Susan Mizen,  Dr Phil Mollon,  Dr Clara Mucci,  Jack Nathan,  Jenny Riddell,  Dr Allan Schore,  Ruthie Smith,  Neville Symington,  Marcus West,  ,

CE Credits: 19 hours

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  • Continuing Education (CE) credits for 19 hours are available as part of the course fee. You’ll need to fill out an evaluation form and pass a multiple choice questionnaire related to the content in order to receive your certificate.

This package of resources provides 19 hours of CE on the subject of psychotherapeutic work with people who have received a diagnosis of a Narcissistic or Borderline Personality Disorder, or those who express personality traits often associated with those definitions such as difficulty regulating extreme affective states in relationships and of maintaining a stable, realistic view of the self and other. It combines a rich archive of:

ONLINE BOOKING

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FEES (USD)

Includes a test and CE Certificate of Attendance

Confer member:
$130
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Self-funded:
$260

Organizationally-funded:
$300

Institutional account (4 or more):
$135 per user

Teaching license (10 or more):
$85 per student

CE

Continuing Education (CE) credits for 19 hours are available as part of the course fee. You will need to fill out an evaluation form and pass a multiple choice questionnaire related to the content in order to receive your certificate.  You can submit this test up to a maximum of 5 times.

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MODULE
INCLUDES

  • 17 hours of video and audio presentations illustrated with captions, diagrams or images
  • Supporting notes, slides or references
  • Study guides
  • Bibliography linked to relevant articles and books
  • Additional resources relating to each speaker
  • discussion forum
  • A Certificate of Attendance through which you can acquire up to 19 hours CE on the basis of a multiple choice questionnaire assessing your knowledge of the module.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  1. To be able to describe the historical development of the concepts of and treatment of Narcissistic and Borderline Personality Disorder.
  2. To be able to identify the two types of narcissistic presentations and to differentiate these from Borderline Personality Disorder.
  3. To explain how disorganized early attachment affects brain development and impacts the ability to self-regulate affect in people with NPD or BPD.
  4. To be able to discuss the different ways in which developmental trauma neglect and abuse influence the aetiology of Narcissistic and Borderline Personality Disorders.
  5. To be able to describe why cognitive therapies are less effective with patients who have affect-regulation deficits.
  6. To be able to describe why Sigmund Freud thought narcissistic people were untreatable and to evaluate this belief in relation to Donald Winnicott’s ideas.
  7. To be able to list the 6 elements of Ronald Fairbairn’s structural model and their relationship to each other in the therapeutic encounter.
  8. To be able to discuss whether transference-based therapies are more successful in improving the experience and functioning of borderline patients than other modalities.
  9. To be able to creatively apply and integrate the different understandings and approaches to working with narcissistic and borderline traits into your clinical work.

STUDY GUIDES

  • Brief history of the concepts of ‘personality types’ and ‘personality disorders’
  • The symptoms and clinical presentation of narcissistic and borderline personality traits
  • Aetiology of borderline and narcissistic traits
  • Therapeutic approaches to working with fragile selves
  • Controversies
  • Key people and theoretical developments
  • References