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Sam Vaknin coined the terms narcissistic abuse and no contact in the 1980s — and much else besides.
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Author · Pioneer of narcissistic-abuse studies
Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited — widely regarded as the foundational text in the field. He coined the terms narcissistic abuse and no contact, developed Cold Therapy as a treatment modality, and has lectured worldwide on personality disorders.
Expert in narcissistic abuse & post-traumatic recovery
Lidija is the long-time editor of the Malignant Self-love series of books, e-books, and video lectures on personality disorders and abusive relationships with narcissists and psychopaths. She is now available for consultations on narcissistic abuse and recovery from post-traumatic conditions.
The complete record of three days of the Level 1 Cold Therapy Seminar in Vienna, Austria — for licensed therapists.
Cold Therapy is a treatment modality for Depression and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) developed by Sam Vaknin. It is based on two premises: (1) that narcissistic disorders are forms of complex post-traumatic conditions; and (2) that narcissists are the outcomes of arrested development and attachment dysfunctions. Consequently, Cold Therapy borrows techniques from child psychology and from treatment modalities used to deal with PTSD.
The treatment consists of the re-traumatization of the narcissistic client in a hostile, non-holding environment which resembles the ambience of the original trauma. The adult patient successfully tackles this second round of hurt and thus resolves early-childhood conflicts and achieves closure — rendering his now-maladaptive narcissistic defenses redundant, unnecessary, and obsolete. It has also proven effective with major depressive episodes.
Cold Therapy makes use of proprietary techniques such as erasure (suppressing the client’s speech and free expression and gaining clinical information from his reactions to being so stifled). Other techniques include grandiosity reframing, guided imagery, negative iteration, other-scoring, happiness map, mirroring, escalation, role play, assimilative confabulation, hypervigilant referencing, and re-parenting.
Cold Therapy should be administered only by licensed therapists.
Further reading: Lecture Notes · Introduction (German) · Cold Therapy, Warmly Recommended · Journal of Clinical Review & Case Reports · Sample videos: Part 1, Part 2
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