Narcissist Through Outside The Room
Abstract
The frame of treatment is one
of the key words in psychoanalytic psychotherapies. Contemporary psychoanalytic
schools show a deep respect for the patient’s unique subjectivity regardless of
the severity of the condition, and this respect alone has a tremendous
psychotherapeutic value. Many patients feel deeply understood perhaps for the
first time and only in the therapy room. However, therapists encounter
pathological personalities in their daily life, outside of the frame of
treatment, too, and witness the highly destructive impact of personality
pathologies, particularly narcissistic ones, on other people and the society.
In this regard, the circumstances in the therapy room and the external world
are quite different. In the room, the therapist does not judge the client, not
claim to “guide” them, not sympathize with the narcissist’s victims, nor
address their destructive behaviors directly. In the eyes of the therapist, no
matter how much harm they caused to others, they are the victims who are not
fully settled in the real world as their psychological birth has been thwarted.
Hence, they cannot even recognize the severe damage they inflict on others. The
therapist focuses on this aspect, trying to hear the silent cry for help behind
the contemptuous glare of the narcissist. However, outside the room, observing
the heavy damage
caused by other narcissists who are not their patients does affect the
therapists. Even though they may not react as harshly as others may, they now
empathize and even sympathize with the narcissist’s victims.
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Details
Primary Language
Turkish
Subjects
Psychology
Journal Section
Other
Authors
Ahmet Çorak
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Türkiye
Publication Date
January 1, 2018
Submission Date
December 29, 2017
Acceptance Date
December 30, 2017
Published in Issue
Year 2018 Volume: 1 Number: 1