Marcus West and Dr Anne Alvarez discuss contemporary questions around the diagnosis and treatment of so-called Narcissistic and Borderline Personality Disorders. They also share some of the therapeutic tips and pitfalls they have learnt from their extensive but different experiences of working with adults and adolescents.
Dr Anne Alvarez, PhD, M.A.C.P is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist (and retired Co-Convener of the Autism Service, Child and Family Dep’t. Tavistock Clinic, London, where she still teaches.). She is author of Live Company: Psychotherapy with Autistic, Borderline, Deprived and Abused Children. She has edited with Susan Reid, Autism and Personality: Findings from the Tavistock Autism Workshop. A book in her honor, edited by Judith Edwards, entitled Being Alive: Building on the Work of Anne Alvarez was published in 2002. More >>
Marcus West is a Training Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology and the UK Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Analytical Psychology; he is also a trained EMDR practitioner. He is author of three books, Into the Darkest Places: Early Relational Trauma and Borderline States of Mind (2016), Understanding Dreams in Clinical Practice (2011), and Feeling, Being and the Sense of Self: a new perspective on identity, affect and narcissistic disorders (2007).
Into the Darkest Places: Early Relational Trauma and Borderline States of Mind
Publisher: Karnac Books – 2016
The Thinking Heart: Three Levels of Psychoanalytic Work in Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents
Publisher: Routledge – 2012
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