Inner Child Second Chance: Using Psychosis to Heal NPD, BPD (Annual Congress on Applied Psychology)
July 26, 2022
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as posted by the channelVideo presentation for the Annual Congress on Applied Psychology, October 2022, Stockholm.
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Psychosis is the natural state in childhood: hyperreflexivity and internal objects=external ones.
If the external is terrifying (abuse, trauma), the child transitions to BPD where internal objects are external (psychoticism) and with a False Self which starts as external (special friend) and ends as internal.
This Self fragment or figment prevents full-fledged psychosis (a state of no self).
If the BPD False Self is attacked and disabled by abuse and trauma, the child attempts to transition to NPD.
NPD is mirror image of BPD:
External objects are internal (fantasy and delusionality) and False Self which starts as internal (grandiosity) and ends as external (true self vanishes).
This solution fails when reality intrudes and cannot be reframed and the False Self remains internal.
The child then transitions to psychopathy where only external objects exist and there is no false self or any self (unimpaired reality testing).
Decompensation reverses this sequence. Therapy can leverage decompensation to affect regression and fix the failures (second chance).
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