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Is Couples’ Therapy Useful When One Partner Is a Narcissist? | Psychology Today
How Does All of This Affect Couple’s Therapy? Effective couples’ therapy requires each member of the couple to be willing to reflect on his or her beliefs, behaviors, and impact on the other person. It is necessary for people in couples’ therapy to be able to admit where their behavior or their expectations for the… Read More Is Couples’ Therapy Useful When One Partner Is a Narcissist? | Psychology Today
Individual and Marital Therapy with Narcissists | Psychology Today
Although narcissism is difficult to treat, progress can be made over time. Even weekly sessions over a shorter term can yield benefits. Patients’ functioning and adaptation to reality can improve through gaining some control over their defenses and by working through past trauma (Masterson, 2004). They can learn to manage their anger, rage, and impulsivity.… Read More Individual and Marital Therapy with Narcissists | Psychology Today
Narcissistic tendencies
It’s not uncommon for people with narcissistic tendencies to experience other mental health concerns, including depression, anxiety, anorexia nervosa, and substance misuse. These other issues, rather than narcissistic traits, often encourage people to seek therapy.
Dealing with narcissism
There are several approaches to dealing with narcissism, but therapy typically involves these essential steps: identifying existing defense mechanismsexploring reasons behind these coping methodslearning and practicing new patterns of behaviorexploring how behaviors affect othersexamining connections between their internal voice and their treatment of others The key to lasting progress often lies in: helping someone see… Read More Dealing with narcissism
Therapies for Narcissism
There are a few types of therapy that are particularly useful for dealing with narcissism. Schema therapy, a newer approach to treatment shown to have benefit for treating narcissism, works to help people address trauma of early experiences that may have contributed to narcissistic defenses. Other beneficial therapies include: Gestalt therapymentalization-based therapytransference-focused psychotherapypsychoanalysis
Mental toughness
Mental toughness is about more than just having resilience and control in difficult situations. It relates to a psychological frame of mind that endorses confidence and commitment to success. In his book Developing Mental Toughness, the psychologist Peter Clough describes mental toughness as a combination of the following: The amount of control a person believes they… Read More Mental toughness
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