NARCISSISTIC TRAPS, SNAGS AND DILEMMAS AT THE HEART OF THERAPY
Wed 15 May
|Webinar workshop
This popular workshop is repeated for the tenth time (over 150 CAT practitioners have attended in the past three years). It goes to the therapeutic core of loss and recovery of healthy selves in societies which can be simultaneously enabling, deeply disorganising and narcissistically challenging.
Time of Event
15 May 2024, 09:30 – 13:00 BST
Webinar workshop
About the Event
What are the ideas?
Narcissism permeates all aspects of contemporary society and can distort our individual and collective ambitions, achievements and sensitivity to our own and others' feelings. It shows up in relationships as imbalances of power, entitlement, overvaluation of ideas, crushed feelings and threats of denigration and contempt.
It operates as a toxic defence against or bypassing of shame, vulnerability and emotional disorganisation. It operates in our cultures and social systems as well as our interpersonal, group and inner lives.
Healthy forms of narcissism (self-assertion, appropriate pride and delight and expression) can get entangled with harmful forms of idealisation, binary prejudice and division.
Whilst the more divisive and extreme forms of narcissism are relatively easy to recognise even if challenging to treat or oppose, there can be a narcissistic element to all our coping strategies. The narcissistic element can trap, divide and thwart us internally and…
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Fee
Payment is for attendance of one person and for workshop reading and teaching materials
£55.00
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