{"product_id":"transforming-narcissism-reflections-on-empathy-humor-and-expectations-paperback","title":"Transforming Narcissism: Reflections on Empathy, Humor, and Expectations - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrank M. Lachmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing Kohut's seminal paper \"Forms and Transformations of Narcissism\" as a springboard, Frank Lachmann updates Kohut's proposals for contemporary clinicians. \u003cem\u003eTransforming Narcissism: Reflections on Empathy, Humor, and Expectations \u003c\/em\u003edraws on a wide range of contributions from empirical infant research, psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic practice, social psychology, and autobiographies of creative artists to expand and modify Kohut's proposition that archaic narcissism is transformed in the course of development or through treatment into empathy, humor, creativity, an acceptance of transience and wisdom. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe asserts that empathy, humor, and creativity are not the goals or end products of transformations, but are an intrinsic part of the ongoing therapist-patient dialogue throughout treatment. The transformative process is bidirectional, impacting both patient and therapist, and their affect undergoes transformation - for example from detached to intimate - and narcissism or self-states are transformed secondarily as a consequence of the affective interactions. Meeting or violating expectations of emotional responsivity provides a major pathway for transformation of affect. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor beginning therapists, \u003cem\u003eTransforming Narcissism\u003c\/em\u003e presents an engaging approach to treatment that incorporates the therapeutic action of these transformations, but also leaves room for therapists to develop styles of their own. For more experienced therapists, it fills a conceptual and clinical gap, provides a scaffold for crucial aspects of treatment that are often unacknowledged (because they are not \"analytic\"), or are dismissed and pejoratively labeled \"countertransference.\" Most importantly, Lachmann offers a balance between therapeutic spontaneity and professional constraint. Focused and engaging, \u003cem\u003eTransforming Narcissism\u003c\/em\u003e provides a bridge from self psychology to a rainbow of relational approaches that beginning and seasoned therapists can profitably traverse in either direction. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Lachmann contributed to an article on empathy in the April, 2008 issue of \u003cem\u003eO\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, pp. 230. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrank M. Lachmann, Ph.D., is a founding faculty member of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, Training and Supervising Analyst, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, and Clinical Assistant Professor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He has contributed over 100 articles to the journal literature, and is author of \u003cem\u003eTransforming Aggression\u003c\/em\u003e (Aronson, 2000), and co-author of \u003cem\u003eSelf and Motivational Systems\u003c\/em\u003e (TAP, 1992), \u003cem\u003eThe Clinical Exchange\u003c\/em\u003e (TAP, 1996), and \u003cem\u003eInfant Research and Adult Treatment\u003c\/em\u003e (TAP, 2002). \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 268\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 9.02 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52733635494195,"sku":"9780881634792","price":104.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ZnJKdWhST1FYdVhGb0l2dWk0SGRUQT09.webp?v=1763938976","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/transforming-narcissism-reflections-on-empathy-humor-and-expectations-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}