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Understanding Cluster B Personality Disorders: Working with Narcissistic & Borderline Presentations
Presented by: Michael Lillie LMFT, MHP
When: Friday, July 19th, 2024 | 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live in person at the ONE Center (7400 Gallagher Cove Road NW, Olympia, WA 98502)
Lodging Options: If you are coming to the area from out of town, several lodging options are available, including staying at the ONE Center. For all lodging accommodation options, please see the list here.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 6 CEs | $175.00
Therapy clients who present with chronic/complex trauma offer unique challenges. They may enter therapy having been given multiple diagnoses, and a history of treatment failure. Depending on how they present, they may receive diagnoses of Complex Post Traumatic Stress, Borderline Personality, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Bipolar, along with many others. Some have been in therapy for many years, even decades without achieving symptom relief and stabilization. This scenario can be frustrating for both the client and the therapist leading to shame for clients and burnout for the therapist. Why some clients get better more quickly, and others show little sign of healing from their wounds can be rooted in chronic trauma and how their personality is formed and organized. Chronically traumatized individuals may have experienced repeated developmental, relational, and acute types of disturbing and/or traumatic experiences. This type of client presentation will often have serious attachment injuries-ruptures, along with higher levels and multiple types of dissociation making traditional therapy modalities more difficult or impossible to administer.
This workshop will explore:
1. How personality disorders are a form of chronic trauma that lead to serious relational impairment.
2. How ineffective and disruptive attachment are the foundation to the distinction between polytrauma and a diagnosable personality disorder.
3. How personality is formed in the early developmental years through adulthood leading to narcissistic and borderline presentations.
4. The role of dissociation as an indicator of personality issues.
5. The key challenges clinicians face working with narcissistic and borderline presentations.
6. What makes narcissistic presentations unique and challenging.
7. What makes Borderline presentations unique and challenging.