Self-love psychotherapy counseling: Self-love
Self-love psychotherapy counseling: In self-love (which we call narcissism) there are two routes. One path is love from self to self and the other path is love given by self to “other” and back to self again. The first is normal when we are very babies. Then it evolves and passes through other people. I will not analyze today what is love from/to the self and what is the love that is given by the self to the other and returned to him again, nor will I begin an analysis in order to describe the way in which a problematic develops in narcissism . These areas of narcissism study need too much analysis for which I cannot devote time here. (but you can read the lake of narcissism in which I describe the narcissistic phenomenon in more detail). But I will quote here, from my experience with patients suffering from narcissistic disorders, the clinical consequences of such problems, which in their phenomenology and essence are the same as those diagnosed fifty years ago.
Self-love psychotherapy counseling
Self-love psychotherapy counseling
- Symptoms of narcissistic personality disorders
- In the sexual sphere, perverse fantasies and/or lack of interest in sex are observed.
- In the social sphere, inhibitions at work, inability to form and maintain meaningful relationships and/or delinquent behaviors are observed.
- Personality traits include lack of humor, lack of empathy for the needs and feelings of others, lack of willingness to share, tendency to attack from uncontrolled rage, pathological lying.
- In the psychosomatic sphere, there are hypochondriac involvements concerning the mental or physical state and various pseudo-disorders in organic systems (e.g. intestine, stomach, etc.)
Self-love psychotherapy counseling
Self-love psychotherapy counseling
Where do narcissistic disorders come from?
Narcissistic disorders originate from disturbances in the relationship with the primary care figure which later extend to the surrounding people involved in the person’s life. If a person begins to have narcissistic deficits very early, then later it is possible that he will not be able to smoothly manage the problems of later ages.
Self-love psychotherapy counseling
Self-love psychotherapy counseling
Self-love counseling psychotherapy: Treatment of narcissistic disorders
Psychoanalysis identified the problem of narcissistic disorders quite early in its development, so today we can deal with such mental problems quite successfully. Thus the classic psychoanalytic technique was modified in order to better understand the individual’s wounded narcissism. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy was developed which, in addition to trying to bring the unconscious elements of the psyche to the surface of consciousness, tries to understand the course of development of the sense of self. In this way the patient can experience again the context in which he experienced himself when he was still a baby, toddler and child and with the empathic attitude of the therapist be able to heal his narcissistic deficits.
Self-love psychotherapy counseling
Self-love psychotherapy counseling
Today most of the disorders we deal with have major narcissistic deficits, which means that child care figures are emotionally unavailable. Treatment at an individual level is possible, but the problem at a social level is very large and the contribution of the state is needed in terms of the development of family support structures in schools. Such an attitude on the part of the state would be very helpful for children and teenagers but also for parents and the community in general.
Self-love psychotherapy counseling
Self-love psychotherapy counseling
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