Early traumatic experience in the form of physical and emotional maternal abandonment: Is there a correlation with the development of narcissistic defenses and elements in personality?

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Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Ψυχοδυναμική Ψυχοθεραπεία σε Ιατρικό Πλαίσιο
Library of the School of Health Sciences
Deposit date:
2019-04-15
Year:
2019
Author:
Kolokotsa Aggeliki
Supervisors info:
Τζινιέρη – Κοκκώση Μαρία, π.μ. Επίκουρος Καθηγήτρια, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Χριστογιώργος Στυλιανός, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Παπανικολάου Αικατερίνη, Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Original Title:
Πρώιμη τραυματική εμπειρία με τη μορφή φυσικής και συναισθηματικής μητρικής εγκατάλειψης: Υπάρχει συσχετισμός με την ανάπτυξη ναρκισσιστικών αμυνών και στοιχείων στην προσωπικότητα;
Languages:
Greek
Translated title:
Early traumatic experience in the form of physical and emotional maternal abandonment: Is there a correlation with the development of narcissistic defenses and elements in personality?
Summary:
This dissertation examines the possibility of a relation between early parental abandonment and the appearance of narcissistic elements in adulthood as an answer to an early injury in psyche, due to abandonment.
In the first part, the researcher explores the concept of narcissism through the psychoanalytic literature and in the second part, the researcher uses clinical examples from the therapy with a patient, whose history is indelibly marked with early abandonment, in order to illustrate and explore better the emerged theoretical elements.
In conclusion, after the elaboration of theoretical and clinical material, the research validates the main research hypothesis, that parental abandonment in early childhood, can lead to strong narcissistic defenses and to narcissistic personality traits.
The methodology of this research involves relevant conceptual literature review as well as a case study. The clinical material used for this study derives from the one year psychotherapy process with a patient (from March 2017 to March 2018), in the context of the Master Degree Program «Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in Medical Settings», in the Medical School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
The present study is important because through the explanation of possible interactions between narcissistic psychopathology and early maternal abandonment, we may be able to identify relevant psycho therapeutic approaches for such cases, as well as general prevention proposals in the context of Mental Health promotion programs.
Main subject category:
Health Sciences
Keywords:
Narcissism, Early parental abandonment, Childhood trauma, Childhood trauma effects
Index:
No
Number of index pages:
0
Contains images:
No
Number of references:
21
Number of pages:
46
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