1. Narcissism
Himanshu Vaidya

2. Philosophers who write books on humility never forget to mention, the name of the author -Cicero

3. Narcissism The myth of Narcissisus
Narcissism – Narcissist, Megalomaniac, Self Obsessed
Narcissism – Freud
Freud – Primary, Secondary Narcissism
Narcissism – Pathology, Resistance to healing

4. Narcissism: What is it? Excessive love of oneself Grandiosity
Excessive self care (hypochondria)
Lack of concern for others
Manipulating others for one’s objectives
Hungry for praise, admiration
Inability to sustain deep intimate relationships
Prone to narcissistic injury and rage
Idealization and De-Idealization
Narcissism is not absence of object cathexis but of object relations in the real world

5. Narcissism: Some approaches
Freud
Klenien
Kohut
Esteem regulation
Existential

6. Kernberg and Kohut
Psychoanalysis is the preferred therapy for narcissism
Classical Approach – Kernberg
Inferiority - Grandiosity
Reality
Self Psychology approach – Kohut
Normal Developmental failure

7. Self Psychology approach
Grandiosity to Reality
Fixation at Grandiosity owing to lack of mirroring, idealization, self-object needs, twin-ship needs
Narcissism is arrest of development which can be reinitiated and completed
Self Pathology – Defect vs. Deficit

8. Narcissism in Everyday life
Let us recollect people we know
Defending a point pointlessly
Our behavior in certain social situations
Behavior of successful people in society (Officers, Doctors, Politicians)
Narcissism and Leadership
Narcissism and Art
Narcissistic Artists
Narcissism in Art creations (Characters, Songs)

9. Narcissism and Healing
They don’t come to therapy
They eject out of therapy when their narcissism is touched
In therapy they refuse to relate
In therapy they attack the process of healing lest someone may heal them
They guide therapy
Therapy is long term and involves intense depression and anxiety
Is Narcissism involved in most pathologies?

10. Narcissism Pathology and Productivity
Narcissism for productive research
Narcissism for art
G B Shaw, Kierkegaard, Kant, Heidegger, Freud, Jung, Davanloo, Hitchcock, Modi
Is there something called Healthy Narcissism?

11. Thank You