The Key to Treating Malignant Narcissism | FRANK YEOMANS

How do you treat malignant narcissism? Frank Yeomans says the key is empathy for the patient's sadistic pleasure, however hard it might be to empathize with someone who gets pleasure out of hurting others. A clinical example features a young woman who cuts off her own fingers.

We talked with Frank Yeomans about Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and how it can affect us on a personal and societal level.

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Frank Yeomans is an expert clinician who makes use of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy in his practice treating NPD and BPD. In fact, he co-wrote the manual on TFP for Borderline Personality Disorder!

Check out our interview of Otto Kernberg (who mentored Frank Yeomans) for lots more related material:    • Dr. Otto Kernberg  

For more information about BORDERLINE, the feature-length documentary we made about BPD, please visit: http://borderlinethefilm.com

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