[Audio] EP00 Invited Address 12a – The Narcissistic Personality Disorder (Closet): A developmental Self and Object Relations Approach – James Masterson, M.D.

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• Archive: Topic Areas:Psychotherapy | Invited AddressCategory:Evolution of Psychotherapy | Evolution of Psychotherapy 2000Faculty:James F. Masterson, MD | James Hillman, PhDDuration:1 Hour 19 MinutesFormat:Audio OnlyOriginal Program Date :May 29, 2000 Description Description: In this paper, Dr. Masterson gives an understanding of the intrapsychic structure of Narcissistic Personality Disorder and how it finds clinical expression through the disorders of the self triad.

• Clinical cases are presented to illustrate how the therapeutic intervention of mirroring interpretation of narcissistic vulnerability helps the patient to convert transference acting-out to therapeutic alliance and transference, thereby creating the condition for psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

• Educational Objectives: To describe the clinical vicissitudes of the disorders of the self triad.

• Given a case, use mirroring interpretation of narcissistic vulnerability to help the patient convert transference acting-out to therapeutic alliance and transference.

• *Sessions may be edited for content and to preserve confidentiality* Faculty James F. Masterson, MD Related seminars and products: 50 James F. Masterson (M.D., Jefferson Medical School, 1951) was Director of the Masterson Group, P.C., which specializes in the treatment of adolescent and adult character disorders.