For more than 20 years, the Foundation for the Contemporary Family has been committed to bringing high-quality, innovative, in-person clinical training in couples and family therapy to Southern California.

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This Fall's program addresses covert narcissism in individual and couples therapy. Covert narcissism rarely looks like the arrogance and grandiosity we expect. It hides behind vulnerability, "super-suffering," and a constant need for reassurance—making it one of the hardest presentations to accurately assess and treat.

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To help us meet that challenge, we are delighted to welcome the person other therapists call when these cases stall. Wendy T. Behary is an international expert on narcissism and Founder of the Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and The Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC. She provides clinicians the theoretical grounding and practical tools to understand, empathize with, and effectively help this challenging population and their partners. Her disarmingly straightforward, accessible style, paired with deep clinical experience with this often misunderstood clientele, makes this a rare and valuable training opportunity.

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Informed by Schema Therapy, this workshop offers a conceptual framework and practical skills for therapists who want to:

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• Distinguish authentic vulnerability from a constructed victim identity

• Conceptualize covert narcissism and form a treatment plan for individual and couples therapy

• Identify and address the early trauma and attachment ruptures beneath the coping modes

• Recognize and treat the subjugation, self-sacrifice, and self-diminishment often carried by partners

 

Please join us for a clinically rich day that gives you real tools to permeate the wall—for both the covert narcissist and the partners who love them.

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As always, the Foundation for the Contemporary Family is underwriting this event so we can offer this high-caliber training at a very low cost—including a delicious buffet lunch—and we’re able to offer more scholarships than ever before!

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Judith Z. Anderson, Ph.D.

President, Foundation for the Contemporary Family
Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
University of California, Irvine

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